JIHADI bride Lisa Smith’s family hope a Late Late Show interview will “smooth things out” if she returns to Ireland.

However, they are said to have asked for a closed set in RTE for the Co Louth woman to tell her story to presenter Ryan Tubridy before it would be aired later.

2 Lisa Smith wants to bring her daughter home

2 Lisa Smith moved to Syria in 2015 Credit: Tom Conachy

Late Late bosses scored an enormous coup in November 2017 when they secured the first TV ­interview with Ibrahim Halawa — two weeks after he was released from an Egyptian prison.

Halawa denied rumours he ripped up his Irish passport while in Egypt in an interview said to have helped the 23-year-old return to normal life here.

RTE declined to comment when approached by the Irish Sun about an interview with Smith, 37, or any contact with her family.

But an RTE insider told the Irish Sun: “Lisa Smith has a lot of explaining to do to the Irish people if she wishes to come back home.”

Lisa, from Dundalk but stuck in a refugee camp in Syria after Islamic State’s downfall, wants to bring her daughter to Ireland.

The former Defence Forces member, 37, was detained by US troops in northern Syria in March on suspicion of supporting the terror group.

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She left her home in Dundalk and first moved to Tunisia before making the journey to Syria in 2015, where she married an Islamic State sympathiser who later died fighting.

Jihadi Smith spent a decade serving as a soldier in the Irish Army and then the Air Corps.

She had previously even served former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern on the Government jet.