Graham Norton has revealed he was left devastated after losing a "very good friend" during the AIDS epidemic. The Bandon native reflected on the epidemic and how people were warned not to sleep with anyone who had an "American accent".

Graham Norton has reflected on losing a ‘very good friend’ during the Aids epidemic, with the talk show host branding his passing a ‘big loss’. The BBC host, who was born in Dublin, appeared on Jack Guinness’ Queerphoria podcast to provide an insight into what it was like being a gay man in the early 1980s.

The chat show king reflected on the epidemic and how people were warned to sleep with anyone who had an "American accent"

Graham Norton has reflected on living through the Aids epidemic, a period that he experienced the "big loss" of a close friend.

The fear of Aids had sort of taken over San Francisco,” Norton told Jack Guinness on the Queerphoria podcast. “So for me, that was a much more frightening place (than Londo