Sunday, 8 October 2006

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Graham Norton: I've tried loads of drugs

Comedian admits he's tried Ecstasy and cocaine

Chat show host Graham Norton says he's experimented with 'lots of drugs' but now prefers booze.

'What would really bug me if I got busted in the tabloids is that I do them so rarely,' he tells Janet Street-Porter in Marie Claire. 'I like alcohol. I know what it does for me. I can control it and I can go to a shop and buy it.'

The comedian, who has a multi-million pound contract with the BBC, dismisses cocaine as 'middle-aged' and 'a middle-class choice of drug' but says he enjoyed Ecstasy 'years and years ago'.

'It was absolutely amazing,' he insists. 'It was just fantastic - really, really fun.'

Desmond Delaney, whose 16-year-old daughter Siobhan died after taking Ecstasy told the Sun: 'I wish he'd seen my daughter lying dead in her coffin'.