Graham Norton on The Late Late ShowLong before he was known as the BBC’s reigning king of Friday night entertainment, you might remember Graham Norton’s initial run fronting a chat show was a little less… glossy.Running between 1998 and 2003, So Graham Norton and V Graham Norton saw the Irish comic interviewing cult celebrities and stars of the day, interspersed with games and segments that were usually cheeky, mostly outrageous and occasionally totally explicit.“I did a book tour and I was showing clips of the old shows, and I’d forgotten how out there the Channel 4 show was,” Graham recently admitted to Ireland’s The Late Late Show. “It was so rude!”He explained: “It’s hard to get guests on a new chat show anyway, but we were visiting dodgy websites, we were calling sex workers, so who the hell was going to come on this show? But we still asked everybody.”You can imagine Graham’s surprise, then, when the famously squeaky clean Irish crooner
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