Graham Norton trips the light fantastic
Friday
Night with Jonathan Ross, 10.35 pm, 8 October, 91热爆 ONE
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Graham Norton waltzes on to 91热爆 ONE to announce
his latest TV series on Friday Night with Jonathan Ross tonight.
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Graham is set to host a brand-new series, Strictly
Dance Fever, a nationwide search for wannabe dance champions quick-stepping
from obscurity to stardom and subjected to the public vote each week.
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"Everyone at some point thinks they can dance,"
says Graham. "[In my case] with a few drinks, watch out Justin
Timberlake. I'll be doing a bit of hand-holding and mocking."
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"The whole point is that we're doing new shows
for a new audience," he says of his transition from late-night
Channel 4 chat. "I just want to do things that I'd watch."
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"I'd been where I was for
six years... I did five nights a week for two years. It's what I wanted
to do but it was hard work... it was like a job!"
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Norton also digs the dirt on past chat show guests:
on Britney Spears 聳 "not very memorable"; on Mariah Carey
聳 "lovely, but... a giant celebrity gerbil"; on Raquel
Welch 聳 "a bitch"; on Harvey Keitel 聳 "he hated
me聮.
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But his least favourite guest of all time was Lindsay
Wagner: "She sat there like I'd just farted on her face. I just
thought you horrible old cow!"
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Norton also reveals that there are some people he would
never want to read his recently-published autiobiography, So Me - "I
might let my mother see it at Christmas 聳 as a supervised read"
and that writing it was cathartic.
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"It's like cheap therapy. I'd be writing things,
crying, and then think why?" 聳 and that although he's "sort
of seeing someone", he's enjoying being single and famous 聳
"I'm shagging out of my league. I can't believe people are that
shallow... but good!"
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Jonathan also welcomes to the show Icelandic superstar
Bjork, performing her new single Who is It, and music and talk
from pop legends Duran Duran, with new single (Reach up for the)
Sunrise and a live rendition of their classic hit Save A Prayer.
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