The Graham Norton Show is back on BBC One tonight and four Hollywood A-listers will join Graham on the couch. Promoting their new Apple TV series – The Morning Show – are Reese Witherspoon and Jennifer Anniston.
Also on tonight’s show are Sir Ian McKellen and Dame Julie Andrews.
Ian will be discussing his new film, a drama thriller named The Good Liar, in which he plays a con-man.
Dame Julie will be chatting about her new book Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years.
Reese stars in and was executive producer of new TV show The Morning Show, but spoke to Graham about her iconic role of Elle Woods in Legally Blonde.
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“They’ve been left alone to get to know each other in a more private way.”
The pair met at a party, with Reese telling Elle in 2012 that her husband saved her from a very drunk man at the bash.
She said: “It happened out of the blue. This really drunk guy was hitting on me, making such an idiot of himself, yelling at me.
“He was like, ‘You don’t know me.’ And I was like, ‘Yeah, I know. I don’t know you!’”
Then Jim intervened as Reese explained: “Jim came over and said, ‘Please excuse my friend. He’s just broken up with someone.’
“Jim was a really good friend, pulling him out of that situation. That’s just kind of who he is, a really good person.”
Reese has three children, two from a previous marriage to Ryan Phillippe – Ava Phillippe and Deacon Phillip and a son with Jim, Tennessee James Toth.
In an interview with Harper’s Bazaar, conducted by fellow actress Natalie Portman, Reese gave an insight into married life.
When asked by Natalie what the secret to a happy marriage was, Reese told Bazaar: “Oh, boy, I don’t have the answer to that question! I will say, I think my friend Eve Rodsky [who wrote the new book Fair Play] is onto something.
“In a true partnership, people need to be appreciated for everything they bring to the table.
“I have a husband who supports my dreams and my ideas. He helps me with everything. I’m very lucky.”
In 2016, Reese told Harper’s Bazaar about her supportive husband saying: “He said, ‘You should produce movies. You read more books than anybody I know. You should just buy some of them and turn them into films.’”
And in a 2012 interview with ELLE, Reese revealed of her other half: “Jim said, ‘I’m gonna show you every day what a good partner is, what a good person is.
“I’m going to take care of you. I’m gonna do this so much that you’re gonna get used to it.’
“I was like, ‘What are you talking about?’ I’ve never had anybody like that in my life.”
The Graham Norton Show is on BBC One at 10.35pm tonight