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Laois woman to appear on Late Late Show alongside Hollywood star Colin Farrell
Abbeyleix's Emma Fogarty and The Penguin star will take part the Dublin City Marathon next week
Laois woman Emma Fogarty and Colin Farrell.
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17 Oct 2024 8:33 PM
Laois woman Emma Fogarty is set to appear on Friday night's Late Late Show alongside her friend, Hollywood actor Colin Farrell.
The Abbeyleix woman is Ireland’s longest-surviving person battling the most severe type of the agonising skin condition, epidermolysis bullosa (EB) also known as Butterfly Skin.
Next week Colin will run the Dublin City Marathon with Emma to mark her 40th birthday and to raise funds for Debra Ireland.
The friends hope that, with the public’s help, the challenge will raise 400,000 euro for Debra – the national charity helping 300 people in Ireland who live with EB.
“Emma Fogarty is not only the strongest person I’ve ever met and a true warrior, I’m lucky enough to call her a friend," said Farrell.
“For years now, I’ve been fortunate enough to bear witness not only to her courage and her vulnerability, but her humour, her stubbornness and her great, great heart too.”
The Penguin star added: “The fact that I’m getting to run the Irish Life Dublin Marathon with my friend to celebrate her 40th birthday is something I’m so excited about. She’s already won the whole day!”
The Laois woman’s parents were told she would not live a week beyond birth but she reached her milestone birthday last month, surviving cancer twice in the interim.
“The doctors said it would be better for me not to make it, because my life would be so hard,” she said.
“No-one expected me to survive for this long – because people with my type of EB almost never do – but I’ve always been encouraged to be a fighter.
“Reaching 40 shouldn’t be a miracle, but right now it is.
“I’m asking everyone to donate to Debra, which has been like a family to me, so everyone with EB in Ireland can live the longest, fullest life possible.”
Also in studio with The Late Late Show host Patrick Kielty on Friday will be Actor, writer, director and one of the stars of My Best Friend’s Wedding, Rupert Everett. He will be chatting to Patrick about spending time in Ireland, being ghosted by Hollywood and his recent guest appearance in Emily in Paris.
Irish American actor and IFTA award winner Aidan Quinn will also drop by on Friday night to tell Patrick about why he loves coming back to Ireland and taking to the Abbey Theatre stage.
TV presenter and chart-topping podcaster Vogue Williams joins Patrick to talk about her recent tour with Joanne McNally, her new podcast, Never Live it Down and her pride after her husband Spencer Matthews broke a World Record over the summer.
Hit maker Rick Astley is live in studio to chat about his rise to fame, returning to the spotlight after his early retirement, the rickrolling phenomenon, and his plans for the future. Rick will also be performing Never Gonna Give You Up with his big band!
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