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He planned to retire at 50, but Graham Norton is having too much fun. As his latest memoir is published, Hannah Stephenson finds out about his good TV fortune, his shambles personal life and being an agony uncle.

Graham Norton arrives a few minutes late to our interview, a stone’s throw from his house in London’s Docklands, apologising profusely and keen to get things off to a happy start.

I instantly like him, his chirpiness and risque humour ever present, that ’Eek, awkward moment’ expression so often directed to camera on his eponymous chat show now pointed at me when relaying any one of his string of hilarious anecdotes.