Broadcaster Lottie Ryan has spoken about her departure from RTÉ after more than 15 years, describing the emotional toll of leaving during the period surrounding the broadcaster's payments scandal, before joining Brian Dowling as co-presenter of Virgin Media's The Six O'Clock Show. She reflected on the deep family ties RTÉ holds for her, given her late father Gerry Ryan's decades-long career there, and said her exit was amicable rather than the result of any conflict.

Ryan also discussed personal milestones coinciding with her career change, including her son Wolf starting Junior Infants, and touched on her experience of being a shy child, the judgmental nature of certain groups on social media, and why she chooses not to engage with online trolls. She described her mother visiting Gerry Ryan's memorial plaque at Montrose as part of processing the family's collective goodbye to the broadcaster.