Chat show host Graham Norton reveals how iconic divas helped launch his career and why he fears his mother's brutally honest reviews of his shows.
Graham Norton is the chat show king almost every star in the world wants to meet. But in a fresh insight into the success of his 26-year old talk show, the Irish funnyman has revealed how he owes his success to three divas for making his BBC One series a world-wide hit: Cher , Joan Collins and Dolly Parton . The trio helped put the comic firmly on the TV map by taking a chance to appear on early episodes when Graham kickstarted his career on Channel 4 in the late 1990s.
He went on: "If it is a bad review, she will say, 'Saw the show last night...How do YOU think it went?' So with parenting like that it is no surprise I seek the validation of strangers. It is as if there is a queue outside her house with people waiting to tell her how s**t her son's show was." Whatever happens on the night, Graham is ready for anything after steering his show through many awkward moments over the years, including the infamous moment when a tipsy Mark Wahlberg once jumped on his lap when he appeared way back in 2013.
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