The Graham Norton Show: Who tonight's guests are and what time BBC show is on
Top viewing as you tear into a bag of Halloween sweets!
The Graham Norton Show is back on the box tonight (October 31), but which incredible guests is he catching up with this time?
After you’ve spent the first half of the evening dealing with trick-or-treaters, Graham’s latest line-up has you covered on all bases. There’s an Oscar-nominee, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, a ballroom-loving comedian, and a star of The White Lotus.
Plus music from Hozier and Mumford & Sons, performing their collaboration song Rubber Band Man.
Here’s everything you need to know about tonight’s instalment of The Graham Norton Show, including full line-up and what time it airs.
Who is on The Graham Norton Show tonight?
A week on from Kim Kardashian and Bryan Cranston’s appearance on his huge sofa, the talkshow host is by no means dropping the quality this weekend.
Let’s start with the one and only Keira Knightley. She’s in town to promote her first-ever children’s book, I Love You Just the Same, which recently hit shelves.
“My eldest daughter didn’t like sleeping at all. So every night for months I drew her a picture that she could wake up to,” says the Black Doves actress. “Then she started asking for specific things including a bird that could take the baby away. I thought I had better write a book so I could get the baby back!
“I draw a lot. I am dyslexic, so I learn my lines by listening to them and while I am listening, I draw. The more detailed the drawing, the better the lines go into my head.”
Apparently, even though the film came out 23 years ago, Keira’s fans still approach her on the street to talk about Bend It Like Beckham.
“It’s mainly little girls. They love it because women’s football has become such a huge thing now. I also get a lot of football players saying how much they love the movie which is lovely,” she shares. “I keep trying to get my own girls to watch it. But they are like, ‘You’re okay, we’ll watch the Euros instead!'”
The White Lotus star Aimee Lou Wood turns astrologer
Aimee Lou Wood, who memorably played Chelsea in season 3 of The White Lotus, explores her fellow guests’ star signs.
“I always do research,” she mentions. “A very good astrological mix. Graham and Keira as Aries bring the passion and keep the fire going. Malala [Yousafzai] as Cancer is the nurturing mother of the zodiac. Chris [McCausland] is a Gemini so nice and chatty, and as for me I am Aquarius – the weird one!”
She’s on The Graham Norton Show to discuss the upcoming second series of BBC comedy Daddy Issues. “[Co-star David Morrissey] is so good, so brilliant. But it’s actually bad how funny he is. We can’t get through the day without laughing so much. People come up to me and say, ‘You only corpsed six times today. Well done!’ It really is so much fun,” Aimee reveals.
As for writing and starring in the recent drama Film Club, the guest found the whole experience “magical”.
“You have these people in your head for years and then Suranne Jones is there being that person, which is incredible. But also, the number of times I would be in a scene and I would be thinking, ‘Why the hell did I write that?’ Once you surrender to it you sort of forget it is yours.”
Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai
Meanwhile, the youngest-ever winner of a Nobel Prize, Malala Yousafzai, is a guest on The Graham Norton Show.
Opening up about her memoir Finding My Way, the guest tells Graham: “It is a coming-of-age story. The most personal reflections I have shared from when I was a lonely student in high school to a reckless college student and navigating my way as a young woman.
“It is my personal experiences about belonging, friendships, and mental health. My hope is that when someone reads the book the message is that they are not alone.”
Malala then explains what it was like studying in the UK away from her native Pakistan. “I felt so lucky that I went to college and completed my degree and that was the moment I felt I had won,” she begins. “Because the people that tried to silence me and stop me from learning failed and I completed my education. I have that same dream for all women.”
When it comes to pushing back against her parents’ strict ways, Malala has plenty of stories on that subject too.
“The clothes I wore at university upset them,” she uses as one example. “When I met Prince Harry and he put his arm very respectfully around my shoulder for a photograph, my mother goes after him and shoves his hand away! Then I had a photo taken standing close to David Beckham and they freaked out because of the disapproval of their conservative relatives. I said to them, ‘Firstly, I am 17 and secondly, that’s David Beckham!'”
Strictly champion Chris McCausland’s new book
And finally we have the reigning Strictly Come Dancing champion Chris McCausland.
“There are three distinct things that have happened to me so far. I lost my sight; I became a comedian; and then Strictly, which is such a positive end to that part of my story,” he tells Graham.
“I thought going blind would be the hardest part to talk about, but I actually found it the most interesting bit,” he adds, referring to penning his memoir Keep Laughing.
What time does The Graham Norton Show start?
The Graham Norton Show once again airs at 10.40pm on BBC One and BBC iPlayer tonight.
Should the desire grab you, all previous episodes of series 32 and 33 are also available to stream on iPlayer right now.
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