Graham Norton had his appendix out as a kid after lying to get off school.
Graham Norton
The 57-year-old TV presenter faked a stomach ache to skip school when he was a youngster, but his mother took him to the doctor who booked him in for unnecessary surgery.
Appearing on TV show 'Mel Giedroyc: Unforgivable', he said: “When I was seven or eight, I didn’t want to go to school so I started saying ‘Ow, I’ve got tummy ache’. So my mother said, ‘Fine, don’t go to school and we will go to the doctor’.
"The doctor’s examining me and I’m going, ‘Ow!’ I thought he was going to tell my mother there was nothing wrong with me and I was in such trouble. But he told me I had something called appendicitis and next week I’d be going to hospital to have my appendix out."
However, Graham was too scared to tell either of the adults he was faking it so underwent surgery to have his appendix removed.
He added: “I then thought I was really f***** because either I have an operation I don’t need or I tell the doctor there’s nothing wrong with me and there will be two very angry adults. So I had the operation!”
Graham has admitted he is "glad" he is past the age of having to consider issues around having kids of his own, as he finds it “weird” there is now an “expectation” for gay men to marry and start a family.
On young gay men discussing having kids, he said: “It’s like, do you know how much that costs? It’s so weird, isn’t it, that there’s now an expectation that we’ll get married and have kids. I’m glad I’m not having to face those decisions."
The Virgin Radio DJ insisted he has never wanted children of his own. He said: “No. I mean, when I could have had them. I know older people who do have kids and good luck to them - I couldn’t. And when I was young enough I certainly didn’t want them. They’d be dead!”
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