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Graham Norton TV and radio

BOOTH HAS SOFA, DRIVERS CAN'T LEAVE

Wanted: one red sofa, seats four, suitable for tollbooth queue; no timewasters, tall stories welcome

Existence confidence provisional
A generated photo of an anonymous stranger. It is not the person named.
Graham Norton brushes second-hand paperbacks at a coin car wash in Nevada, leaning in close as if each book might reveal something deeply personal about itself.
Location
Toll booth 4, Bray-on-Thames, beside the sofa nobody will claim
Currently
Toll booth attendant, interviewing every motorist
Last confirmed sighting
Leaning out of the booth window, 11:42, asking a lorry about its weekend
Observations
Can detect a better anecdote from three counties away by taste alone.

Graham Norton has taken a job as toll booth attendant on a small private bridge outside Bray. Every driver is now invited to pull in, sit on a red sofa on the verge and tell their best story before the barrier lifts. The fee remains £1.20.

"I only stopped to pay," said Donna, who delivers bread rolls to three garden centres. "Next thing I'd told him about my uncle's caravan and he was howling, and there was a button on the arm of the sofa. I didn't press it. The man behind me did."

He is currently trying to clear a tailback of forty-one vehicles by chatting to each at speed, with mixed results. A camper van has been on the sofa since lunchtime, and the barrier has been raised for a story about a ferret.

Guidance for the public

Have exact change and one decent anecdote ready; do not press the button on the sofa.

Actual status (not satire) No death recorded as of 22 October 2026. Born 4 April 1963. Source: Wikidata

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