Graham Norton has revealed he is ready to ‘do the dishes with dead celebrities’ as he prepares to take his long-running chat show on the road in 2025.

National Treasure Graham (to give him his full title), 61, has spoke to countless celebrities over the years after debuting as a talk show host 26 years ago.

But Friday nights on BBC has belonged to him ever since he debuted with The Graham Norton Show in 2007, and has been on the air now for 17 years.

And as he takes The Graham Norton Show around the world over the next 12 months, he has promised to tell some of the stories he’s collected in that time.

“I want guests to come on the show again,” he joked. “But you know, there’s talk of some of them maybe having a little more to drink than they should have and stuff like that.”

To talk to Everand’s Women’s Dayhe continued: ‘(But there’s) going to be some backstabbing about people who are now dead, because that’s how cowardly I am – well, I’ll wash the dishes with dead celebrities.’

Earlier this month, Graham told News.com.au that Daryl “wasn’t a big guest,” but put it down to nerves on the big night and said she was in good spirits by the time filming was done.

He said: ‘What I loved was that (Daryl) got through it, afterwards she was high as a kite. She really felt that she had done a great thing. And I was happy for her that she got through it.

As for celebrities who drink a little more than they should while sitting on the famous red couch, Graham has revealed a sneaky trick his guests use to catch a cold faster.

“A lot of people think we’re trying to get our guests drunk and we’re really not,” he said. “There’s a drink waiting for them out there if they want it, but the most you can really have is two or three drinks, tops.”

“If you want to be drunk – and obviously some people do – you have to arrive fully tipped,” he added, speaking to News.com.au.

Another famous incident occurred in 2014 when actors Matt Damon, Hugh Bonneville and Bill Murray all arrived on set drunk after attending a movie premiere.

The Graham Norton Show airs tonight at 10.40pm on BBC One.

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