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
I've so exceeded what I ever wanted to do.
I'm actually quite self-sufficient, so it might look as if there isn't room for anyone in my life. That isn't entirely the case.
All my day is spent dealing with other people. When I come home I like it to be empty. The presence of others in my house kind of annoys me. I love coming home and shutting the doors. I feel brain dead. I'm relatively available, but not to live with.
Britain's such a twisted, weird little place.
I am camp. Lots of gay men can't cope with their campness. They are in denial about it.
I'm often dating people, but I don't say it because you sort of know it won't last long.
I'd like to retire at 50 but I don't want to sell papers in the middle of London on a Zimmer.
I was a failed actor but I still wanted to show off, so I ended up doing live comedy.
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.
All my interesting stories are from before I was on television. Nothing interesting has happened to me since then. Maybe it's because the most interesting thing in my life is the show and that's on telly.
The higher your profile becomes, the more aware you are that people out there might hate you.
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!'
My life could have been so grim really, really grim.
Occasionally the state of the planet can knock me off my perky perch.