Straight producers told me to 'camp it up', says Graham Norton

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http://news.independent.co.uk/media/article359449.ece
His outrageous double entendres helped propel him to the top of British television comedy, but Graham Norton has admitted that his camp act did not always come naturally.

In a documentary to be screened on Monday, Norton, who is hosting a second series of the BBC1 Saturday night entertainment show Strictly Dance Fever, reveals he was sometimes uncomfortable about the number of gay references in his work and was encouraged to "camp up" his comedy by straight television producers.

In the BBC3 programme, The Trouble With ... Gay Men, Norton said that when making his shows he was surrounded by "scores of straight producers making sure I am as gay this week as I was last week". He added: "So you say, 'I don't want to do this really gay joke' and they say basically 'you think of a better joke' and then you say, 'all right, I will be taken up the arse one more time'."