Graham Norton Net Worth 2024

What is Graham Norton’s Net Worth and Salary?

Graham Norton is an Irish comedian who has a net worth of $40 million. His chat present, “The Graham Norton Show”, is hosted on Friday nights on BBC One. He works on a number of radio exhibits and is a five-time BAFTA TV Award winner for Best Entertainment Performance. Norton additionally routinely hosts The British Academy Television Awards.

Early Life

Born in Dublin, Ireland, on April 4, 1963, as Graham William Walker, Graham Norton studied at however didn’t graduate from University College, Cork. He would later obtain an honorary doctorate from the college.  He moved to London and labored as a waiter whereas attending the Central School of Speech and Drama. When he joined the actors’ union Equity, Graham selected Norton as his stage identify as there was already a distinguished actor named Graham Walker.

TV Career

Norton made the press in 1992 when he portrayed a tea-towel clad Mother Teresa in a comedy drag act within the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. His first appearances in broadcasting had been within the UK, the place he had a spot as a daily comedian and panelist on the BBC Radio 4 present “Loose Ends” within the early ’90s. Norton started to realize public consideration when he stuffed in for a late-night TV speak present host and hosted a quiz present, “Bring Me the Head of Light Entertainment”. He additionally appeared within the Channel 4 sequence “Father Ted.” He obtained his chat exhibits, “So Graham Norton” and “V Graham Norton”, on Channel 4, and finally moved to the United States in 2004 to proceed his profession. His program, “The Graham Norton Effect”, was launched on Comedy Central later that 12 months, till the comedian moved over to the BBC to host a number of packages, together with “Graham Norton’s Bigger Picture” and “How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria?” He additionally hosted the Saturday evening actuality TV sequence “Strictly Dance Fever” on BBC One. During this time, Norton additionally hosted varied different exhibits for the BBC together with “When Will I Be Famous?” “The One and Only,” and “Totally Saturday.”

Norton’s chat present, “The Graham Norton Show,” started airing in February 2007 on BBC Two. The format is just like his earlier Channel 4 exhibits. In October 2009, the present moved to BBC One in a brand new one-hour format. It airs on Friday nights with re-runs a number of days later. It is exclusive in that Norton will usually interview 3-4 celebrities without delay, with all contributors sitting on a sofa and normally sipping on one thing boozy of their selection. In May 2010, Graham stood in for Chris Evans’ breakfast present on BBC Radio 2 and later that month it was confirmed that he could be changing Jon Ross’s Saturday morning slot on the identical station. In December 2011, a brand new panel present launched, “Would You Rather…” with Graham Norton” on BBC America. Recorded in New York, it’s one in every of BBC America’s earliest efforts at producing authentic programming, and can also be the primary panel recreation the channel has proven, both of British or American origin. In February 2019, it was introduced that Norton could be a choose on the UK model of RuPaul’s Drag Race alongside Alan Carr on a rotating foundation.

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Eurovision Host

In September 2007, Norton hosted the primary annual Eurovision Dance Contest in London, England. The format was primarily based on BBC’s “Strictly Come Dancing” and the EBU’s Eurovision Song Contest. Norton additionally hosted the 2008 Eurovision competitors in Glasgow, Scotland. In December 2008, it was introduced that Norton would take over Terry Wogan because the presenter of the Eurovision Song Contest. The 54th Eurovision Song Contest was held in Olympic Stadium in Moscow in May 2009. His debut jokes throughout the contest acquired optimistic evaluations from the British press. Graham hosted the Eurovision’s Greatest Hits live performance on the Eventim Apollo in Hammersmith, London in 2015. In 2020, Norton reprised his position of host within the movie “Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga” starring Will Ferrell.

Other Ventures

Norton was concerned in an advert marketing campaign for the UK National Lottery as an animated unicorn, the stooge to a personality primarily based on Lady Luck he additionally marketed McVitie’s biscuits. In 2007, Norton featured in Girls Aloud and Sugababes Comic Relief video for the only “Walk This Way.” In January 2009, Norton made his West End debut in “La Cage Aux Folles” on the Playhouse Theatre. In March 2013, Norton received the Guinness World Record for “Most Questions Asked on a TV Chat Show” on Comic Relief’s Big Chat. In 2014, Norton publicly backed “Hacked Off” and its marketing campaign towards UK press self-regulation by “safeguarding the press from political interference whereas additionally giving very important safety to the susceptible.”

Norton wrote an recommendation column in The Daily Telegraph newspaper from 2006 to 2018. In October 2010, his columns had been made right into a guide entitled “Ask Graham.” In October 2014, Norton launched his memoir, “The Life and Loves of a He-Devil.” In 2016, Norton revealed his first novel “Holding”, a few homicide in a rural Irish group. Norton received the Popular Fiction Book of the Year Award for “Holding” within the Bord Gais Energy Irish Book Awards in 2016. In October 2020, Norton introduced through Twitter that he had been solid because the voice of Moonwind within the upcoming Pixar animated characteristic “Soul” starring Jamie Foxx and Tina Fey.

Personal Life

The overtly homosexual entertainer break up from his accomplice, Trevor Patterson, in 2013 after three years collectively. He break up together with his subsequent accomplice, Andrew Smith, in 2015.  Norton has acknowledged that his ex-boyfriends usually resented the position they needed to play within the public eye as his accomplice.

In 1989, when he was a younger drama scholar, Norton was mugged and stabbed by a bunch of male attackers on the road in London. He misplaced half of his blood and nearly didn’t survive the assault. He mentioned an aged couple discovered him and mentioned they saved his life after they referred to as an ambulance for him. Norton did not suppose the assault was a homophobic hate crime as he was strolling alone on the time. Norton was hospitalized for 2 and a half weeks earlier than finally recovering from the assault.

Norton resides in Wapping, London, and owns a vacation house in County Cork, Ireland. He additionally owns an condo in New York City. He adopted his canines, Bailey and Madge, from the UK Charity Dogs Trust. In January 2012, Norton’s London house was damaged into. His Lexus was stolen and he pleaded for the return of his automobile throughout his BBC Radio 2 present the following day.