Alan Carr reveals friendships with chat show rivals

By Patrick McLennan
( What's on TV )
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Alan Carr has insisted there is no chat show rivalry and said he swaps interview horror stories with Graham Norton.

The comedian, who hosts Channel 4 talk show Chatty Man told TV Times he got on well with his rival hosts - BBC One's Graham and ITV's Jonathan Ross.

He said: "Graham and I have mutual friends and we recently went to a gay wedding in Mykonos. He's a really nice guy, and we just sat on the beach and chatted about our shows.

"It's good to talk to someone and say, 'Did you have that guest? Oh my God, weren't they awful?' So we had a good old b****ing session.

"As for Jonathan, I think he's brilliant. I know it's boring because people want you to say, 'I hate them.' If you start hating people because they've got a chat show, that makes you a bit weird."

Alan also talked about his ideal guests: "I'd love to have Prince Harry, but I'm sure he won't come on. It would be great to have Lady Gaga come back because she was so much fun."

The new series of Alan Carr: Chatty Man is back on August 30.

 

Patrick McLennan
Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 


An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.