The host once revealed the name of a famous actor as his worst guest on the show but ended up changing his mind.
In 2018, during the Cheltenham Literary Festival, Graham Norton was asked who had been the worst guest on his show, and the host revealed that, for him, actor Robert De Niro was that person.
“He’s not a storyteller, and not very verbal,” Norton said about De Niro’s appearance on his show. “The last time he started telling a long story, we were all leaning in, hoping it would be amazing… then he finally said, ‘Why am I telling this?’” the host recounted.
But in 2022, during an event in Dublin, Ireland, for the launch of his novel “Forever Home“, Norton gave a different answer to the same question; “I usually talk about who was my least favorite guest, but now, since someone reminded me, I have a very good answer for it,” he said.
“It’s Harvey Weinstein. He’s in prison, so he wins the prize for the worst guest of all time,” Norton said about the film mogul who was sentenced to 23 years in prison for rape and sexual assault.
Weinstein appeared on an episode of Norton’s show in 2015, according to the host, after much insistence from the former film producer; “He sent me a very nice email, a compliment. And then he decided he wanted to be on the show because he was going to promote something.”
“At that time, I thought that kind of attitude was what made a producer very good. But of course, now that we know what we know, it’s what makes him a predator. It was that kind of weird, tunnel vision,” Norton concluded.
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