Claudia Winkleman fans have claimed ‘Graham Norton could be out of a job’ as they praised the presenter for hosting his talk show on Friday. 

The TV personality, 53, who recently detailed her ongoing battle with the chronic health condition myopia, stood in for Graham while he tours Australia. 

Viewers were delighted to see Claudia at the helm and said that she needed ‘her own chat show.’

Opening the programme she said: ‘I am so sorry Graham isn’t here. To be honest nobody is more livid than me. 

‘That is the horrendous news. The brilliant news is that we have excellent guests.’ she said before introducing Rob Beckett, Toby Jones, Saoirse Monica Jackson and Chris Pratt.

Sharing their thoughts on X, fans posted: ‘Claudia Winkleman needs her own chat show. She’s definitely holding her own here while Graham is away.’

Claudia Winkleman fan’s have claimed ‘Graham Norton could be out of a job’ as they praised the presenter for hosting his talk show on Friday

The TV personality, 53, who recently detailed her ongoing battle with the chronic health condition myopia, stood in for Graham while he tours Australia

‘Graham could be out of a job soon, Claudia’s marvellous’; ‘Eh why doesn’t Ms Claudia Winkleman have her own talk show in the first place may I ask?’

But, not everyone agreed, with others writing: ‘fsake! Claudia Winkleman again!? Sick of seeing the same BBC luvvies on the gravy train’; ‘Imagine getting tickets to the Graham Norton Show and Claudia Winkleman shows up instead.’

Graham, 61, is currently taking an extended break with Friday being Claudia’s first appearance. 

As he heads to Australia for a live tour, he will present An Evening With Graham Norton, which will see the Irish presenter discuss hilarious stories and shed light on some career highlights, before taking questions from the audience. 

He will be back in the autumn for a new series. 

Amid the enormous popularity of BBC’s The Traitors, Claudia was confirmed to be heading from the Scottish Highlands to the talk show studio to take the H๏τ seat.

The presenter responded to Graham’s announcement on his show by saying: ‘I apologise in advance!’

‘I am always very nervous that people aren’t watching and then incredibly grateful that they are. I feel about Traitors like people feel about an offspring – you’re so glad when people love it.’ 

Opening the programme she said: ‘I am so sorry Graham isn’t here. To be honest nobody is more livid than me

She added: ‘That is the horrendous news. The brilliant news is that we have excellent guests.’ she said before introducing Rob Beckett, Toby Jones, Saoirse Monica Jackson and Chris Pratt’ 

Sharing their thoughts on X, fans posted: ‘Claudia Winkleman needs her own chat show. She’s definitely holding her own here while Graham is away’ 

But, not everyone agreed, with others writing: ‘fsake! Claudia Winkleman again!? Sick of seeing the same BBC luvvies on the gravy train’

She added: ‘I can’t say much but the producers are so clever and there are lots of twists and turns coming.’

Claudia recently opened up on her ongoing battle with myopia, as she admitted she ‘can’t read any more’.

The TV presenter has always been candid about her eyesight struggles and in December she delved in deeper during an appearance on Gabby Logan’s The Mid Point podcast.

She admitted: ‘I’ve had lens replacement. I’ve had so many operations on my eyes.

‘I had a lens replacement in my left eye because my astigmatism was so bad I was minus 16, but that was 14 years ago.’

The presenter admitted how her vision has changed over the years, meaning she’s switched from being short-sighted to long-sighted. 

She continued: ‘Then I had a little fiddle with but because I was so short sighted by then fixing it I’m now long sighted so I can’t really read any more.

‘I can with glᴀsses, I’ve got plus 2.5 but I can’t read The Bee Sting with those glᴀsses and that light.’ 

In November 2023, Claudia revealed that her eyesight is still very blurry, despite undergoing two lots of surgery to fix it.

The Strictly Come Dancing host admitted that she has actually never been able to see her own face because of the issue.