Graham Norton Bio | Wiki
Graham Norton is an Irish actor, comedian, author, commentator, and presenter. His work is well known in the UK and is a five-time BAFTA TV Award winner for his comedy chat show The Graham Norton Show and an eight-time award-winner overall. Originally shown on BBC Two before moving to other slots on BBC One, Graham’s chat show succeeded Friday Night with Jonathan Ross in BBC One’s prestigious late-Friday-evening slot in 2010.
In 2021, he started presenting on Saturdays and Sundays on Virgin Radio UK. Since 2009, Graham has been the BBC’s television commentator for the Eurovision Song Contest, which led Hot Press to describe him as “the 21st century’s answer to Terry Wogan”. Moreover, in 2012 he sold his production company So Television to ITV for around £17 million. In 2019 Graham became a judge on RuPaul’s Drag Race UK.
Graham Norton Age
Graham was born on April 4, 1963, in Clondalkin, Ireland. He is 58 years old.
Graham Norton Height
He is a man of average stature and stands at a height of 5 ft 7 in (Approx. 1.70 m).
Graham Norton Family
He was born Graham William Walker St Brigid’s Road, in Clondalkin, County Dublin to his parents William “Billy” and Rhoda Walker. Graham’s father served as a sales representative for Guinness and died in 2000. He has an older sister, Paula. He grew up in a Protestant family in the predominantly Catholic town of Bandon. Graham’s father’s family were from County Wicklow, while his mother is a native of Belfast.
Graham Norton Partner
Graham is openly gay. He dated Kristian Seeber, who performs as the drag queen Tina Burner. He split up from his partner of two years, Trevor Patterson, in 2013, and broke up with his subsequent partner, Andrew Smith, in 2015. In 2015, Graham said that his ex-boyfriends often resented the role they had to play in the public eye as his partner. He primarily resides in the Wapping area of London. He also owns an apartment in New York City, United States, and a holiday home in Ahakista, County Cork.
Graham Norton Education
He attended Bandon Grammar School in West Cork and then University College Cork, where he spent two years studying English and French in the 1980s. However, Graham did not complete his studies after having a breakdown and refusing to leave his dorm room. Later, he received an honorary doctorate from the university in 2013. In the late 1980s, Graham moved to London to attend the Central School of Speech and Drama. He also served as a waiter during that time.
Graham Norton Show
Graham’s chat show, The Graham Norton Show, launched on February 22, 2007, on BBC Two. The format is very similar to his previous Channel 4 shows. The show moved to BBC One, in a new one-hour format on October 6, 2009. In May 2010, Graham stood in for Chris Evans’ breakfast show on BBC Radio 2. Later he replaced Jonathan Ross’s Saturday morning slot on the same station.
In December 2011, the panel show Would You Rather…? with Graham premiered on BBC America in the time slot immediately following The Graham Norton Show. It is one of BBC America’s earliest efforts at producing original programming and is recorded in New York. The show became the first-panel game the channel has shown, either of British or American origin.
Graham Norton Books | Holding
In October 2010, Graham’s columns were made into a book entitled Ask Graham, published by John Blake Publishing. In October 2014, he released his second memoir, The Life and Loves of a He-Devil. It won in the Non-Fiction Book of the Year category at the 2014 Irish Book Awards.
In 2016, Graham published his debut novel Holding, published by Hodder & Stoughton, about a murder in an Irish rural community. He won the Popular Fiction Book of the Year award for Holding in the Bord Gais Energy Irish Book Awards 2016.
Will Smith Graham Norton
Will Smith surprised viewers of Graham’s show with his impression of Arnold Schwarzenegger. He appeared on the latest episode of the BBC chat show that was broadcast on November 26, 2021. While there, Smith shared a story about pushing through the crowd at an opening of a new Planet Hollywood restaurant so that he could get advice on how to become an actor from Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis, and Sylvester Stallone.
Graham Norton Net Worth
He earns his wealth from his career, therefore, he has amassed a fortune over the years. Graham’s estimated net worth is $40 million.
Who Is Graham Norton
Graham is an Irish actor, comedian, author, commentator, and presenter. His work is well known in the UK and is a five-time BAFTA TV Award winner for his comedy chat show The Graham Show and an eight-time award-winner overall.
Is Graham Norton Married
No. He dated Kristian Seeber, Trevor Patterson, and Andrew Smith,