TV host Graham Norton is line for a €10 million pay day.

The BBC star has sold his television production company for just over €21 million.

Norton owns half of the firm ‘So Television’ which produces his BBC chat show to British broadcaster ITV.

Norton and his business partner Stuart Masterson will get an up-front payment of €12.6 million.

The rest of the money will be paid if ‘So Television’ meets profits targets by 2016.

Apart from making the Graham Norton Show ‘So Television’ also produces The Sarah Millican Television Programme.

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