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Graham Norton

Graham Norton is a UK based comedian, actor, author, and commentator Irish television and radio anchor whose real name is Graham William Walker. He was brought into the world in Clondalkin, a suburb of Dublin and experienced childhood in Bandon, County Cork. His family are individuals from the Church of Ireland. His dad’s family were from County Wicklow, while his mom is from Belfast, Northern Ireland. Norton took part in the TV program Who Do You Think You Are? to follow his family. His dad’s immediate predecessors started in Yorkshire.

He was taught at Bandon Grammar School, in West Cork, and afterward University College, Cork, where he went through two years examining English and French during the 1980s yet didn’t finish his examinations subsequent to having a breakdown during which he would not leave his room. In June 2013, he got a privileged doctorate from University College Cork. Norton moved to London and went to the Central School of Speech and Drama. He additionally functioned as a server during that time. After joining the entertainers’ association Equity, he picked Norton (his extraordinary grandma’s family name) as his stage name, as there was at that point another celebrity called Graham Walker. He has won many awards such as Gaytime award 1999,British  Academy Television Awards 2000,Royal Television Society 2001, National Television Awards 2017 and British Academy Television Awards 2018. He has worked for Channel4,BBC,Radio,Eurovision and many other platforms all along his journey there were many controversies but he went through all of them very swiftly. Once he was attacked in london where he was stabbed and beaten up by a bunch of antisocial elements and he was rescued by an old couple who called the ambulance and saved his life because he lost half of his blood and it took him a time of two and a half weeks in hospital to recover completely and back to his normal life.