Christmas wish comes true for Kildare Late Late Toy Show girl
RobynLyn Edmonds (7) gave a stellar performance on Patrick Kielty's Christmas show
Dreams really do come true, especially if it's Christmastime and you happen to be a seven-year-old little girl from Naas, Co Kildare.
Tired of singing without an audience, RobynLyn Edmonds this year landed a starring role in RTÉ's annual festive extravaganza, The Late Late Toy Show, singing 'APT' (originally by Rosé and Bruno Mars) with a host of backing singers and a rock band to boot.
Delighting the Toy Show audience with her stellar performance, RobynLyn – a student at Gaelscoil Nás a Ríogh, Naas - equally melted the hearts of her parents, who were said to be in “awe” of her raw talent.
Speaking of RobynLyn's performance on the Late Late Toy Show, which aired on Friday, December 5 last, mum, Dearbháil says: “The public applications are sent out towards the end of August and the start of September. You can upload a video of your child singing and performing and so on, so you popped a video into it and she was actually only six at the time.
“We put a little video of RobynLyn singing, then we got a phone call in October, and they said, “hello, the Toy Show” and we were so excited!
“They said they'd love for RobynLyn to come in for a physical audition and she came in for the physical audition just a week after the phone call. After that then, it was the night before Halloween and they said they'd love to have her on the Toy Show, and would that be okay? We couldn't believe it!”
RobynLyn starred in a wonderful rendition of hit song, 'APT', which 'aptly' served to get the Toy Show audience moving. But despite the glare of camera lights and the eyes of the crowd, she remained decidedly unphased.
Dearbhail says: “She got on so well, there was so much going on with the audience and about seven or eight cameras, but she took it like a duck to water.
“Myself and her dad are just in awe of her confidence. She'd had just three rehearsals in the weeks leading up to it, but she wasn't nervous at all.
“Even at the end of the Toy Show, she came back on for the finale and she sang 'Merry Christmas Everyone' with some of the singers in the cast, it must have been five to midnight because it was a live show, and she skipped back in and performed centre stage beside CMAT which ended the Toy Show.”
RobynLyn's siblings, Lee (18) , Beau (4) and Cameron (1) were all proud of their sister for her TV debut, but none were so proud as Dearbhail and Naas firefighter dad, John: “It's hard to put into words but I suppose it's like a rollercoaster of emotion, but we were so proud and we were just in awe of her to be honest.
“I definitely think she has a future in singing after this, there's no doubt.”