Graham Norton takes home Attitude Icon Award
By Will Stroude
Graham Norton has won an Icon Award for Outstanding Achievement, supported by Sky, at the Attitude Awards 2014.
The 51-year-old TV host and comedian – who recently returned to BBC One for a new series of The Graham Norton Show – has become one of the BBC’s most popular and respected presenters over the last decade, and has fronted the channel’s Eurovision coverage since 2008.
Earlier this year, Norton spoke about his onscreen future, saying: “I always said I’d retire at 50, but now I’m 51 and I’m still doing it and we’re doing it for the future, I guess. And I’m still enjoying it.
“It’s not like this awful thing that I’ve got to force myself to do – I like doing it, I like going to work. So hopefully I will start to hate it before the public start to hate it, and so I’ll step away just before people are going, ‘F**k off!’”
Screen icon Carrie Fisher presented Norton with his Icon Award, one of three handed at tonight’s star-studded ceremony at Banqueting House in Whitehall, London, which is being hosted by Scissor Sisters star Ana Matronic.
Norton has also posed for the latest Attitude – the Awards Issue – and appears on one of nine special collectible covers. Take a look below.
