Norton set for bumper pay day

Graham Norton is line for a €10m pay day.

The BBC star has sold his television production company for just over €21m euros.

Norton owns half of So Television, which produces his BBC chat show, to British broadcaster ITV.

Norton and his business partner Stuart Masterson will get an upfront payment of €12.6m and the rest of the money if So Television meets profits targets by 2016.

Apart from making the Graham Norton Show, So Television also produces The Sarah Millican Television Programme.