Graham Norton’s most awkward moment led to him denying having sex with a dog.
The 54-year-old TV host has recalled his own Big Red Chair experience – which is the segment on his chat show when members of the public recall their most awkward moment – and Graham has revealed it involved his pet dog Bailey.
Graham explained: "I do have an answer to this, but it’s a really rude story! So, what happened was this… I can’t believe I’m going to tell this.
"I had a gentleman caller and he was fine. The next morning I waved goodbye to him and slammed the door bye, bye, and that was that. I went upstairs to clean up some of the debris … things you don’t want the cleaner to find. I was putting everything away, but there was one bit of debris I could not find.
"I looked in the bin; it wasn’t there. I thought, ‘Well, I couldn’t have tried to flush that down the toilet, it must have gone. Where on earth is it?’"
Graham tried to solve the mystery by speaking to his "gentleman caller" – but the situation just became more and more bizarre.
He told Express.co.uk: "It actually got to the point where I phoned the gentleman caller and said, ‘Do you know what happened to the thing?’ and he said, ‘No, I don’t know what happened to it’. So I thought that must just be a mystery. That is a mystery!
"So that was the Monday night, Tuesday morning. Wednesday morning I was out and about in the park as usual with my dog, Bailey – quite a big Labradoodle – he did his business and I picked that up.
"I walked over and I put that in the bin and then I looked back and Bailey is lying on the ground clawing at his backside. There it was, like a great big ghostly finger hanging out of him."
And unfortunately for Graham, the incident played out in full view of the parents in the local area.
He said: "I had to get it out. Now, all I’ll say is no matter how stretchy you think they are, you’ve no idea! Honestly, I was half way across the park with this thing!
"I mean, it’s morning time, mothers with their children were going to school. I went, ‘No I did not have sex with my dog!’ Anyway, that would be my red chair story."
Graham Norton reveals his most awkward moment
