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Reese Witherspoon’s co-jurors thought she was really a lawyer
January 27th, 2025 under Graham Norton, Reese Witherspoon/Ryan Phillippe. [ Comments: none ]

Reese Witherspoon famously played a lawyer in Legally Blonde and its sequel. However, she is not one in real life. But she was so believable in the role that she was once mistaken for being one.

The actress shared a story with Graham Norton about how believable she was. Seven years after the first film came out, the actress was called to jury duty in Beverly Hills, and she was picked. When it came time to choose a foreman, the jurors wanted her to take on that role. Why? They thought she went to law school. As we know, she didn’t.

What was the case? She spent two weeks listening to a woman suing another one because she got bit trying to break up a dog fight.

Witherspoon didn’t say whether they found the dog owner guilty. But she did say everyone knows how to put your handle in the middle of a dogfight.

So, it sounds like even though she did not go to law school, the jurors made the correct choice by choosing her.

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Robbie Williams explains why he is a chimpanzee on Better Man
January 2nd, 2025 under Graham Norton, Robbie Williams. [ Comments: none ]

Robbie Williams decided to tell his life story in the movie Better Man, and they could not have gotten a better man to play him. Actually, I should say chimpanzee because that is who the Take That singer is in the film.

So you have to wonder why he chose an animal to play himself. He explained why to Graham Norton. “We realized we needed a created difference with the biopic,” he said. “The biopic genre got a bit long, a bit tired. So, we needed to have a unique selling point. And Michael Gracey, the director, came to me and said, ‘Rob, what is your spirit animal?’ And I was trying to find some self-worth for myself that day, as I am every day, and I went, ‘I am a lion!'”

Gracecy shrugged that answer off, so Williams went with the next best choice, a monkey. Then, Gracey told his star that everyone would be human, but you would be a CGI monkey. And the rest is Hollywood history.

If you need a reason to see the film that is out now, he gave us a reason. He said that for the first 45 minutes, he is a cheeky monkey, and the rest of the film is like Trainspotting.

Williams also has a message for any of his old bandmates or people featured in the film. To hear what it is, then click here!

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Did Austin Butler shave his head and eyebrows for Dune: Part Two?
February 20th, 2024 under Austin Butler, Graham Norton. [ Comments: none ]

We’ve all seen that photo of a bald Austin Butler with no eyebrows for his character in Dune: Part Two. But did the actor really shave off all of his hair?

Graham Norton wanted to know, so he asked the Elvis star when he was a guest on the show last week.

Butler told the host that because he had to shoot Bike Riders when he wrapped Dune 2, the director of the other film asked him not to do it.

So, he spent three hours every day getting a skull cap put on that went down to his eyelids. And if they didn’t place it properly on his eyes, one eye would stay closed.

When Jodie Foster and Olivia Coleman heard how much time he spent in hair and makeup, they were like, we would totally shave our heads.

What would you do?

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You’ll never believe how Dominic West got rid of a poltergeist 
January 10th, 2024 under Graham Norton. [ Comments: none ]

Dominic West bought a 300-year-old house in Hoxton, England, for a really good price. And as with most houses built next to a plague pit, where they buried people twenty deep, it had a poltergeist attached to it.

While the actor never experienced the paranormal activity, his friend and Vicar, who stayed there, did.

West knew he had to get rid of it, so he told Graham Norton that he decided to exercise it from his house. Therefore, he did the research, and it was a lot of work. Luckily, he didn’t have to do all of that. The person advising him told him to have a kids’ party because it will cheer up the malevolent spirit.

He took that person’s advice and threw a few parties there. And it shockingly worked.

So much so that West didn’t tell the person who bought the place from him.

Does anyone know the law in London if you can sue that homeowner for not sharing that critical detail?

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Julia Roberts was fangirling over Cher, and Cher wasn’t having it!!!
December 6th, 2023 under Cher, Graham Norton, Julia Roberts, Timothée Chalamet, Tom Hanks. [ Comments: none ]

I love Cher. And her appearance on The Graham Norton Show is another reason why.

Norton wanted to talk to the legend about the fact that someone is going to be playing her in a biopic. So, Julia Roberts yelled out, “Say it’s me. Please, say it’s me.” Then, Cher looked over her, tapped her shoulder, and said, “OK. It’s you.” to shut her up, which Roberts didn’t do.

Julia then imitated the unique way Cher flicks her back. And you can tell at this point Cher was over it because the singer looked at Norton as to say to him that he should pay attention to me and not her.

So he got the message and did. That is when he asked her if they had cast someone to play the part. And she said they haven’t because she can’t find anyone to fit her extraordinary life into a script short enough to be a movie.

So Cher asked for Tom Hanks’ help since he produced Mamma Mia 2, a movie she starred in, and he loved her singing in it. He especially loved the way she sang Abba’s Fernando. So he said as long as someone sings that song, it will be fine.

Hanks accidentally opened up a can of worms because she explained to him that she will be doing her own singing in the film. She hates it when people sing other people’s songs in production because it never sounds like the original singer.

That is when Roberts chimed in again, to explain not all the time. That is because Timothée Chalamet, who was also a guest, had just been cast to play Bob Dylan.

The difference between Cher and Dylan, is she is known for her voice, and Dylan for his lyrics.

Anyways, back to Cher. Roberts added that no one is like Cher and lovingly asked her, “How do you stand yourself?” Cher told, “I don’t! I’m a pain in the ass.”

But not as big of a pain in the ass as Roberts was to her during this episode.

And there was just one more zinger from Cher to Julia. When Cher said that her life was too big for a movie script, Roberts suggested they turn it into a miniseries. Cher didn’t even look at her when she said with disdain, “Yeah. I don’t think so.”

And with that, I love Cher even more! Because she doesn’t have time for anyone’s bullshit, including another Oscar winner who used to be highest paid female film actress.

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