Graham Norton Gets Very Honest About His Unique Night At The Eras Tour
The talk show host's experience of watching Taylor Swift in Ireland was unlike any other Swiftie's.
Taylor Swift’s mammoth Eras Tour saw the singer playing 149 stadium shows across a two-year period – and our maths skills can’t even compute just how many Swifties got to exchange friendship bracelets and sing along with their idol in that time.
But even though millions around the globe managed to catch Taylor on her world tour, we can guarantee no one had a night quite like Graham Norton.
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Last week, the Irish presenter was a guest on Sherri Shepherd’s US talk show, where the host brought up her guest’s love of the I Knew You Were Trouble singer.
Graham then mentioned his trip to see the Eras Tour in Dublin last year, revealing: “It was kind of organised through my show and through Taylor’s people, so I was being shown in, and I realise, ‘we’re heading for the VIP tent’. So, we’re in Ireland, and I’m thinking, ’who else will be in the VIP tent? Will be Bono be there? The prime minister?”
Not quite.
“We get there, it’s just me,” Graham continued. “No one else. Me and a full bar! Thank you, Taylor! It wasn’t full when I left! And Taylor provides nice drinks.”
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Taylor Swift on stage in London in June 2024Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images
Asked if Graham got to meet Taylor as part of the experience, he insisted: “No, no. I was alone in a tent for four hours. But I saw a lot of Taylor Swift in the distance. And I drank her bar dry.
“It was a really good night, I’m not complaining in any way. But because [the tent was] on the pitch, all these Irish children were coming up and giving me the friendship bracelets.
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“Now, I didn’t understand that you’re supposed to give them back. So I just kept taking them – so, I was arms full of friendship bracelets. And then finally, one little Irish girl is sat at the barrier going, ‘give me one!’. I didn’t get the memo.”
Graham isn’t the only celeb who has shared his unique experience of attending the Eras Tour, though.
After watching the show in London last year, Hugh Grant revealed that his Eras Tour experience was also a rather boozy one – although this was more thanks to the Grammy winner’s boyfriend Travis Kelce than anything else.
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Long a trendsetter in action sports, the X Games and its new CEO, freestyle skiing great Jeremy Bloom, teamed with Google founder Sergey Brin to build the technology.
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“Part of subjective sports, we see it all over the place, is that even at their best, humans can get it wrong,” said Bloom, who was a freestyle skier at two Olympics while also playing college football at Colorado. “Sometimes getting it wrong has huge implications. What if we could give judges superpowers and they could see things they couldn't see with the human eye, and this technology could help inform them?”
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Snowboarding experts were aghast on social media. Had Hirano not pulled off the trick again on his third round, his score from Round 2 wouldn't have been enough for the gold medal he eventually won.
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The AI at the X Games this week won't have any impact on the official scoring, but will be a gauge of what's possible in the future. Bloom said thousands of hours of halfpipe footage, along with the judging criteria, have been loaded into a system that will be shown on the TV telecast and be made available to the live judges.
The AI will be programmed to watch haflpipe practice and predict the top three finishers. Then its powers will be used to judge and commentate on three different riders as they go down the halfpipe.
“It's early days, but the technology sort of blows your mind,” Bloom said. “It's the power of what it can do when you give it clear direction. It's pretty amazing what this thing can do.”
In snowboarding, judges look at elements like the height of the jumps, the difficulty of the tricks and how well they're executed. They ultimately deliver scores on a 100-point scale based on how runs stack up against each other.
It's a nuance unlike figure skating or gymnastics, where individual tricks have specific point values. Bloom says all that is being taken into account as they work through the experiment.
He does not envision a future with no human judges.
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