Irish television channel TV3 is to host a second annual programme called The Christmas Toy Show.

This ninety minute event will be a live broadcast from the Royal Dublin Society complex on Friday 21 November. This follows on from the ratings success of a thirty minute programme which they broadcast last year.

The hosts of the show will be Brian McFadden, formerly of the band Westlife, and Karen Foster, an Irish-Dutch television presenter from TV3.

On the tv3 website the inclusion of the duo, Jedward, was described as …with the help (pr hinderance) of the singing siblings. Energetic duo Jedward will be pitching in throughout the live 90-minute show, and getting involved in all of the action as only Jedward can!……the toy show is bound to turn into mayhem with the pair involved in proceedings!

Here you can watch Jedward perform their latest single ferocious on RTE’s The Saturday Show.

Jedward have represented Ireland twice at the Eurovision Song Contest, namely in 2011 with Lipstick and in 2012 with Waterfall.

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