Across his illustrious career, Graham has won nine BAFTA Awards, including Best Entertainment Performance and Best Entertainment Programme, as well as a National Television Award in 2023, the Special Recognition Award at the 2017 National Television Awards and an International Emmy.
Graham is currently presenting the 34th series of the iconic The Graham Norton Show on BBC One. He has served as the UK commentator for the Eurovision Song Contest since 2009 and co-hosted the competition when it was held in Liverpool in 2023, for which he received an RTS Award. He has appeared as a judge on every series of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK for BBC Three and BBC iPlayer.
His other recent television credits include hosting Wheel of Fortune and The Neighbourhood for ITV, Last One Laughing Ireland for Prime Video and the BBC special Madonna & Graham.
Graham has also enjoyed an extensive career in radio. He presented BBC Radio 2’s hugely popular Saturday morning show for ten years from 2010, before moving to Virgin Radio UK in 2021 to host The Graham Norton Radio Show with Waitrose, which ran until 2024.
Graham is the author of five novels and two memoirs, all of which have received critical acclaim and achieved bestseller status. Foreign rights to his fiction have been sold in more than 10 countries. His latest novel, Frankie, was published in September 2024, became a Sunday Times bestseller and won Popular Fiction Book of the Year at the Irish Book Awards. Two of his novels, Holding and Forever Home, have been adapted for television.