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Chapter 13 of the book "Graham Norton: Laid Bare," by Alison Bowyer is presented. It explores the start of another series of Norton's "So Graham Norton" show with guests such as Thandie Newton and Ricky Gervais. It highlights the time when Norton is chosen to replace Terry Wogan as presenter of "Eurovision Dance Contest."

Chapter 11 of the book "Graham Norton: Laid Bare," by Alison Bowyer is presented. It explores the competition between the show of Norton's "So Graham Norton" with Jonathan Ross' "Friday Night With Jonathan Ross." It highlights the new show of Norton called "V Graham Norton" which featured several guests including Gillian Anderson, Debbie Harry and Naomi Campbell.

Chapter 12 of the book "Graham Norton: Laid Bare," by Alison Bowyer is presented. It explores the time when Norton wanted to try his luck in the U.S. where his show "So Graham Norton" was being shown on the cable channe; BBC America. It highlights the promise of British Broadcasting Corp. (BBC) to give Norton a prime-time chat show and a rumoured 15 million euro contract.

Chapter 10 of the book "Graham Norton: Laid Bare," by Alison Bowyer is presented. It explores the start of a bad relationship between Scott Michaels and Norton, because Michaels is already unhappy not being able to pursue his own career and study abroad. It highlights the rumoured 5 million pound renewal contract offered by Channel 4 to Norton.

Chapter 9 of the book "Graham Norton: Laid Bare," by Alison Bowyer is presented. It explores the time when Norton and his family found out that his father Billy Walker is suffering from Parkinson's Disease in 1997. It highlights the Best Entertainment Performance award received by Norton in 2000 from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) which he dedicates to his father who died that year.

Chapter 6 of the book "Graham Norton: Laid Bare," by Alison Bowyer is presented. It explores the time when Norton finished his schooling at Central Schoold of Speech and Drama in June 1989 at 26 years old and had become an actor but unemployed. It highlights his rise to fame as a comedian and the roles offered to him to be a part in a production at the Liverpool Playhouse in England, wherein his performance at the show turned out to be a major turning point in his life.

Chapter 8 of the book "Graham Norton: Laid Bare," by Alison Bowyer is presented. It explores the start of Norton's career at Channel 4 having his own show called "So Graham Norton" given by Michael Jackson, the then chief executive of Channel 4. It highlights the pilot of Norton's show wherein he emphasizes that his show is all about sex which lead to the criticism of the "Sunday Times" calling Norton the enemy of the people.

Chapter 7 of the book "Graham Norton: Laid Bare," by Alison Bowyer is presented. It explores the time when Norton fell in love with 33-year-old American Scott Michaels. It highlights his work as a journalist when he was given the opportunity to write in the gay newspaper "Pink Paper." It cites that in his own monthly column"High Jinx," he wrote and informed readers about his relationship with Michaels.

Chapter 4 of the book "Graham Norton: Laid Bare," by Alison Bowyer is presented. It explores the time when Norton headed for San Francisco, California which was then considered the gay capital of the world. It highlights the experience of Norton when he first arrived in San Francisco in the summer of 1983 where he got a job as a waiter and lived in a commune near Haight-Ashbury where he met Thomas Colland, whom he had a gay relationship.

Chapter 5 of the book "Graham Norton: Laid Bare," by Alison Bowyer is presented. It explores the time when Norton leave California and went back to Ireland with his fiancee Elizabeth to visit his parents. It highlights the breakup of Norton and Elizabeth after Graham enrolled at the Central Schoold of Speech and Drama in London, England on September 22, 1986.

Chapter 2 of the book "Graham Norton: Laid Bare," by Alison Bowyer is presented. It explores the birthplace of Norton in Clondalkin, Ireland and offers information on his parents, education and his love for television. It highlights the time when he first met his schoolmate Niall Power Smith and his teacher Niall MacMonagle who became a major influence in his life.

Chapter 3 of the book "Graham Norton: Laid Bare," by Alison Bowyer is presented. It explores the time when Norton moved out from school with the thinking that he will become a journalist someday. It highlights the time when Norton suspected that he was gay because he was full of anxiety about his developing personality when he was enrolled at University College of Cork (UCC).

Chapter 1 of the book "Graham Norton: Laid Bare," by Alison Bowyer is presented. It explores the awards received by Graham Norton for his television programme "So Graham Norton," at the annual awards ceremony of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) in London, England. It highlights the time when he won his first major award for Best Comedy Newcomer at the 1997 British Comedy Awards.

Chapter 9 of the book "Liz Hurley Uncovered," by Alison Bowyer is presented. It highlights the revelation of actress Elizabeth Hurley's relationship with American businessman Stephen Bing who was suspected on Hurley's pregnancy. It also explores the birth of Hurley's baby boy named Damian Charles at the Portland Hospital in London, England.

Chapter 10 of the book "Liz Hurley Uncovered," by Alison Bowyer is presented. It explores the intense bidding wars on publication where British magazines "OK!" and "Hello!" negotiated 1.5 million pounds for the exclusive photographs of model and actress Elizabeth Hurley and her baby. It also focuses on her self-effacing image where she admitted that beauty is more about emotional quality.

Chapter 8 of the book "Liz Hurley Uncovered," by Alison Bowyer is presented. It highlights the career of actress and model Elizabeth Hurley where she ranked 25th in a survey of top British female earners with the estimated earnings of 2 million pounds. It also focuses on her split-up with actor Hugh Grant where she admitted that there were no third parties involved and even started dating someone she referred only as an American boy.

Chapter 6 of the book "Liz Hurley Uncovered," by Alison Bowyer is presented. It highlights the news of actor Hugh Grant's arrest by vice cops Terry Bennyworth and Ernest Caldera on a lewd conduct with prostitute Estelle Marie Thompson. It also focuses on the interview with actress Elizabeth Hurley about her job as the Estée Lauder model and her relationship with Grant after the incident.

Chapter 5 of the book "Liz Hurley Uncovered," by Alison Bowyer is presented. It explores the physical appearance of model and actress Elizabeth Hurley being a classic English girl with the combination of her looks and confidence that captured most of the photographers. It highlights her red carpet appearance with actor Hugh Grant where she was wearing a black silk evening dress made by the Italian designer Gianni Versace.

Chapter 7 of the book "Liz Hurley Uncovered," by Alison Bowyer is presented. It discusses the appearance of actress and model Elizabeth Hurley at the show of journalist Barbara Walter in which Hurley had lifted her profile in the U.S. on her promotion with the Estée Lauder perfume. It also focuses on the upsetting news on Hurley's life including the death of her dog, the murder of her modelling friend Cassidy Chytraus, and the break-up with her boyfriend actor Hugh Grant.

Chapter 4 of the book "Liz Hurley Uncovered," by Alison Bowyer is presented. It focuses on actress Elizabeth Hurley's Hollywood moments in Los Angeles, California where she was offered the kind of opportunities including the success she had achieved in the television drama series "Christabel." It also discusses her relationship with her new friends as native inhabitants in the television program "La La land" whom they called themselves the Viles, in honour of the Evelyn Waugh book.

Chapter 2 of the book "Liz Hurley Uncovered," by Alison Bowyer is presented. It explores the biography of model and actress Elizabeth Hurley including her life as a teenager, interests, and her relationship with her parents. It highlights her major fashion influence including punk rocker Debra Holder, whom Hurley met at a fancy-dress party at a local village hall one evening in 1982.

Chapter 3 of the book "Liz Hurley Uncovered," by Alison Bowyer is presented. It explores on the disappointments of model and actress Elizabeth Hurley with her life in Finsbury Park in north London, England where she dreamed of becoming a dancer with Hot Gossip on the "Kenny Everett Television Show." It also highlights her meeting with English actor Hugh Grant in an introductory dinner where that time she was mending her broken heart over actor Thomas Arklie.

Chapter 1 of the book "Liz Hurley Uncovered," by Alison Bowyer is presented. It focuses on the baptism of baby Damian Charles Hurley, the son of model and actress Elizabeth Hurley, which was held at the Church of the Immaculate Conception in Mayfair in London, England. It highlights the baby's six godfathers which include singer Elton John, actor Hugh Grant, and 62-year old American billionaire financier Teddy Forstmann.