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Vincent Whelan

Bono jokingly acts as Alex Scott's PA in backstage clip at Graham Norton Show

Bono decided 'I Will Follow' while joking around backstage with former Arsenal and England star Alex Scott as the pair prepared to appear on Friday night's edition of The Graham Norton Show.

The U2 frontman pretended to be a personal assistant of the Football Focus presenter, shepherding her away from paparazzi and hangers-on alike in the short video which she shared on her Instagram.

At one stage, the Dubliner turns to the camera and goes: "Talent coming through, please avert the eyes" as Scott wowed in a black lace outfit while he had his usual plainer look but of course complemented it with the orange shades which he wears because he has glaucoma.

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Taylor Swift was also on the show (Instagram)

Scott captioned the snippet: "Bono looking after me tonight...things you never thought you would see."

The Graham Norton Show is a staple of the BBC's light entertainment programming but the affable Cork host did wade into the news on a more serious topic of late.

He hit back at comments made by John Cleese about ‘cancel culture’ on the British public broadcaster.

The chat show host argued free speech should not be “consequence free” - and people should be held accountable for what they say.

It came after Monty Python star John announced he had landed a new TV and radio show on GB News.

Revealing his new appointment, the 82-year-old comedy legend went on to say he would never do a show for the BBC because he would be ‘cancelled in the first five minutes'.

Reacting to his comments, Graham told Times Radio: “It must be very hard to be a man of a certain age, who’s been able to say whatever you like for years, to know there is some accountability.”

The BBC's Eurovision host explained his point further during a chat with Mariella Frostrup at the Cheltenham Literature Festival.

He said: “You read a lot of articles in papers by people complaining about cancel culture and you think, in what world are you cancelled?

“I’m reading your article in a newspaper, or you’re doing interviews about how terrible it is to be cancelled.”

Graham added: “I think the word is the wrong word. I think the word should be accountability.

“John Cleese has been very public recently about complaining about what you can say... it’s free speech, but not consequence free.”

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