Safe to say we won’t see him on the couch again soon.
It might look like the guests and the audience all have a ball on The Graham Norton Show each week – but wrangling Hollywood stars is no joke for the host.
Graham Norton has revealed that Robert De Niro was one of his least-favourite guests ever on his BBC One chat show.
The legendary actor was a let-down, Graham said during a talk at the Cheltenham Literary Festival yesterday, and the show was forced to cut some of what he said.
“He’s not a storyteller, or very verbal,” the West Cork native said.
“He’s a benign presence. Last time he started telling a story – he went on and on.
“We were all leaning in, willing it to be amazing… then he finally went, ‘why am I telling this?’ Nobody had an answer. We cut it.”
Still, that wasn’t a patch on what Graham called his worst episode ever – a show in June of this year that featured Sandra Bullock, Cate Blanchett, Rihanna, Sarah Paulson and Helena Bonham Carter.
The actors were all there to promote film Ocean’s 8 but got a little rowdy.
“I felt like the guy driving the bus on a hen party,” Graham remarked.
“For 45 minutes people were talking over each other and laughing.
“They were having a great time but the audience was nonplussed.”
