Graham Norton

Graham Norton: I won't have surgery on my eye bags

Graham Norton says he will never have surgery to get rid of his eye bags - as he doesn't want to end up looking like the "Chinese ambassador's gay brother".

MediaGuardian 100 2012 - 60. Graham Norton

He may have been overtaken as the BBC's highest earner by Jeremy Clarkson, but the chatshow host is on top of his game.

Graham Norton's company bought by ITV in £17m deal

Graham Norton's production company, So Television, has been bought by ITV in deal that could be worth up to £17m, depending on its future profits.

Graham Norton 'taking second pay cut'

A BBC report has said the broadcasting giant will be reducing pay for some of its top earners, including Jeremy Paxman and Graham Norton - the latter's second pay cut in three years.

Russell Brand reveals a mellower side

We wondered if his new ­Hollywood lifestyle had gone to Russell Brand's head when he accused Graham Norton of making his mum cry by ­mentioning ex-wife Katy Perry during the Irishman's chat show.

Graham Norton's best bits are trotted out for another viewing in a compilation episode, and there are plenty of them. The BBC's king of chat (and Telegraph agony uncle) has managed this series to enjoy light-hearted badinage with an increasingly impressive array of A-listers. He even managed to loosen Madonna up. Also worth revisiting tonight are chats with Judi Dench, Hugh Grant, Will Smith, Cameron Diaz and Katy Perry. It's a long time and a lot of sport until October, so enjoy the banter.

Russell Brand says Graham Norton made his mum cry

Furious Russell Brand accused Graham Norton of making his mum cry after the chat show host asked him about his divorce.

After her scene-stealing performance in The Devil Wears Prada, British actress Emily Blunt was tipped for stardom. Now she's making good on her early promise, joining bawdy chat show king Graham Norton to talk about her latest spate of big-budget movies. Sassy starlet Rihanna also drops by for a chat and performs her latest Calvin Harris-helmed hit Where Have You Been.

What a fragrant and lovely Graham Norton couch this week as pop songstrels Katy Perry and Cheryl Cole take their dainty places. Ubiquitous comedian Ross Noble is also a guest, the thorn between two roses.

Cheryl Cole, after a difficult couple of years, including her marital problems and all of that unpleasantness over her here today/gone tomorrow role as a judge on the US X Factor, is back in the limelight again. She'll be singing her new single, Call My Name.

The hard-working Katy Perry has also had her fair share of personal troubles, what with the collapse of her brief marriage to Russell Brand. But she seems to be on the up, and will be promoting her concert-tour documentary Katy Perry: Part of Me 3D.

Steve Coogan's last big attention-grabbing television appearance saw him sober-suited and angry giving evidence about press intrusion and phone-hacking to the Leveson Inquiry last year.

Tonight he joins Charlize Theron and Jon Hamm on Graham Norton's big red sofa, presumably to discuss his travails at the hands of an unforgiving press and the return of his monstrous, brilliant creation, embittered Radio Norwich DJ Alan Partridge. There will be a Partridge film later this year and a TV series is set for Sky Atlantic.