Graham Norton's TV pay packet tops €2.79m

Irish chat show king's income from 'The Graham Norton Show' works out at over £116k (€133k) per episode 

The popular presenter draws A-listers to his couch, recent guests on 'The Graham Norton Show' including Taylor Swift, Cillian Murphy, Robbie Williams, and Julia Roberts. Picture: Jane Barlow/PA

Chat show king Graham Norton enjoyed a bumper pay packet of £2.43m (€2.79m) from his TV work for So Television last year.

That is according to accounts filed by ITV subsidiary So Television, which produces The Graham Norton Show and sells it to the BBC and to TV stations across the world, including Virgin Media in Ireland.