Graham Norton
Graham Norton
Graham William Walker, better known by his stage name Graham Norton, is an Irish television and radio presenter, comedian, and actor based in the United Kingdom. He is a five-time BAFTA TV Award winner for his comedy chat show The Graham Norton Show. Previously shown on BBC Two, it took the prestigious Friday night slot on BBC One from Jonathan Ross in 2010. He also presents on BBC Radio 2 and is the BBC television commentator of the Eurovision Song...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionTV Show Host
Date of Birth4 April 1963
CityClondalkin, Ireland
CountryIreland
Because society places a value on masculinity, gay men aspire to it. If you go to a gay club and the doorman says, 'You do realise this is a gay club, don't you lads?' you get all excited because you think, 'Wow, he thought I was straight!'
You don't want money to make you a social freak where you can only hang out with rich people.
It sounds deeply shallow, but for brief spells every member of the public can be fascinating.
If it was possible for me to adopt, I probably would, but no one's going to let me adopt.
The higher your profile becomes, the more aware you are that people out there might hate you.
You don't want to be hard to look at. Plain very good, hard to look at bad. The plain shall inherit the earth; time is our friend.
Well, certainly I think American television is - that's proper TV.
I loved Lucille Ball growing up.
I think the word is adult!
I have nothing to say about my childhood. It was a perfectly pleasant upbringing - it's not like it was unhappy or anything.
I was a failed actor but I still wanted to show off, so I ended up doing live comedy.
I'd like to retire at 50 but I don't want to sell papers in the middle of London on a Zimmer.
I'm often dating people, but I don't say it because you sort of know it won't last long.
All these people I interview are worth ten times what I'm worth.