'You know you’re reading a Cork paper when that happens': Samantha Barry tells Late Late Show of her favourite Echo headline

Cork woman Samantha Barry said her favourite headline about her appearance on last night’s episode of RTÉ’s The Late Late Show, came from The Echo.

The show aired on Friday night, and saw show host, Patrick Kielty, sit down with a number of famous Corkonians, including Ms Barry and Bandon man, Graham Norton.

Ms Barry, who was on-set to discuss her recent appointment to global editor-in-chief of Glamour Magazine, said: “My favourite headline about being on here today came from The Echo, it said ‘Cork people on the Late Late; Samantha Barry and Graham Norton’ and then the ‘also on’ was Paul Mescal and Adam Clayton.

“You know you’re reading a Cork paper when that happens.” 

 Ms Barry went on to discuss her new role, which will see her run the publications’ operations across the US, Mexico, the UK, Spain and Germany.

The Ballincollig native further mentioned that fashion mogul, Anna Wintour, who is the editor-in-chief of Vogue, which also falls under the Condé Nast publishing house, backed her in her new position.

“I love her, she’s great, she’s been a great supporter of mine and pushes me to be better every day,” said Ms Barry.

“She’s proper craic, she has a wicked sense of humour, very dry.” 

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Ms Barry further discussed a recent Glamour Magazine project, which featured mothers of famous people in Hollywood, touching on interactions she has had with celebrities such as Beyonce.

“It’s rare, that you get somebody that has that calibre of celebrity, that takes the oxygen out of the room, I’ve only seen it a couple of times,” she said.

Additionally, Ms Barry went on to reflect on the recent presidential election in the US, describing a time, prior to her position at Glamour, when she interviewed Donald Trump in a men’s bathroom in Miami.

“In my previous life, before my position at Glamour, I ran social media for CNN,” said Ms Barry.

“I had moved over to the US in 2014, and I did that for four years, which was really in the depth of the 2016 election, and for the first year of Trumps presidency.

“It was a really quick interview, but he definitely has presence, let’s put it that way."

Last night’s episode of The Late Late Show, featuring Ms Barry, is now available to watch online via the RTÉ Player.