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The Graham Norton Show confirms Strictly and Star Trek stars

As well as a Slow Horse.

The Graham Norton Show is adding a bit of ballroom sparkle to the sofa this week, with Strictly Come Dancing co-host Claudia Winkleman in the studio.

Fresh from waving goodbye to the BBC One competition's Ellie Taylor and Johannes Radebe over the weekend, Winkleman will be joined in the talkshow's line-up by Oscar nominee Kristin Scott Thomas, who's there to promote the second season of Apple TV+ spy thriller Slow Horses.

Meanwhile, Star Trek's original Hikaru Sulu actor George Takei will also stop by to discuss biographical West End musical George Takei's Allegiance, which charts his experience of World War II's Japanese American internment camp.

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Back in Norton's company is celebrity chef Jamie Oliver, too – there to delve into his latest cookbook One: Simple One-Pan Wonders, while folk duo First Aid Kit provide the music.

Winkleman will be promoting her mystery gameshow The Traitors, which kicked off with a jaw-dropping twist last night.

The idea of the series is for contestants to work together to complete missions, yet separating strategies and suspicions is the aim of the game, as they must figure out who are the traitors among them.

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"I'm going to assume 50 people said no, but I just said, 'No, I can't because my daughter's doing GCSEs and I like to lick the little one and I mean, my big one is older but still, I just like to follow him around,'" the TV presenter admitted of her initial reaction to the job offer.

"They said, 'Why don't you just watch the Dutch version and then decide?' so I watched the Dutch version and I mean, nobody got fed. I didn't brush my teeth. I was so obsessed."

The Graham Norton Show airs this Friday (December 2) on BBC One at 10.40pm

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