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By Robert Harries Graham Norton, the award-winning comedian and Eurovision commentator, had a brush with death before he found fame. The BBC One chat show host, who provided the commentary for Eurovision Song Contest on the BBC on Saturday night, was stabbed, mugged and left for dead on a London street in the 1980s. “I didn’t know I was dying, I didn’t figure it out until later, and this is so not me but I remember saying to this little old lady ‘will you hold my hand’? “, Norton revealed during a podcast last year. “And it was a flicker on her face of ‘oh do I want to hold his hand’ but she d…

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