Sir Ian McKellen Shares The Story Of His First Love!

Sir Ian McKellen Shares The Story Of His First Love! | The Graham Norton Show

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Sir Ian McKellen shares the story of his first love, writing her love letters and eventually reuniting!
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@SakuraPixie 5 ай бұрын

“And I turned in another direction” 😂😂😂

@BluBuryPi 5 ай бұрын

Sir Ian is just the sweetest man in existence.

@yubantwo2086 5 ай бұрын

He's one of the sweetest. How fantastic for humankind , although there are few, that there is more than one.

@hadmadp1 5 ай бұрын

Love anytime he comes on the show! An icon. ✨️

@doga3641 5 ай бұрын

National Treasure I would say

@substitute91 5 ай бұрын

Sir Ian is the sweetest ever. Love him.

@marial870 5 ай бұрын

Sir Ian McKellen is a legend 💖

@Bundleofcontradictions 5 ай бұрын

Petition for Graham Norton’s team to start looking for Wendy. If they can dig up such fascinating and sometimes the most outrageous stories about these celebrities, they can find Wendy. They need to meet again!!

@laetitialilly2347 5 ай бұрын

I second that!

@jerombird1614 5 ай бұрын

Yes, they Can 😃😃😃

@mwx5314 5 ай бұрын

pls find Wendy!!!

@Elesario 5 ай бұрын

I'm not sure she'd survive the chair.

@hamburgcowboy 5 ай бұрын

Please don't

@izz6283 5 ай бұрын

Sir Ian looked distraught when he realized he didn't keep the letters. 😢 I hope he would still be able to find them.

@Way2go926 5 ай бұрын

he looks like he's almost going to cry.. :(

@Maiarien 4 ай бұрын

Right???

@Gisseppii 5 ай бұрын

I remember the wait and anticipation of a letter, those were the days. ❤

@rachele3334 5 ай бұрын

And passing notes in class!

@peterpain6625 5 ай бұрын

@@rachele3334 And in detention for "passing notes" after class ;)

@TJSaw 5 ай бұрын

That’s the sweetest story I’ve ever heard 🥹

@redbarchetta8782 5 ай бұрын

Ian is amazing.

@user-dh6bj2me5p 5 ай бұрын

Lol at "amazing."

@parinikasharma317 5 ай бұрын

How incredibly lovely❤️❤️

@jerombird1614 5 ай бұрын

So beautiful and sweet and pleasing history to hear from a great actor and gentleman. Thank you from France 🙏

@h0lly_blue 5 ай бұрын

love this for Ian, what a beautiful soul

@johnfitzgerald1769 5 ай бұрын

This is the first episode that he was on for the entire episode, normally he would be on later in the show

@WVgirl1959 5 ай бұрын

Wendy, put your letters up for sale!😂

@Dokenchicken 5 ай бұрын

Sir Ian resembles my grandfather and they are about the same age. I find myself doting on you sir whenever I listen to you talk ❤

@nyadambagra2178 5 ай бұрын

He does resemble your grandfather😀

@nb5369 5 ай бұрын

Hello

@Dokenchicken 5 ай бұрын

@@nb5369 hello 😃

@Dokenchicken 5 ай бұрын

@@nyadambagra2178 haha aap na piche piche aana nahin 🤣

@nb5369 5 ай бұрын

@@Dokenchicken Tu jahan bhi jayegi...

@mizbootie 5 ай бұрын

That's such a lovely story. I do hope they are able to meet again and they like each other as much as they did back then.

@yevgeniyaleshchenko849 5 ай бұрын

Awww, how sweet

@jamessomers8808 5 ай бұрын

I am always here for Ian McKellen Thank you.!

@BrandonCroker 5 ай бұрын

Love lifts us up

@lauriemohr470 5 ай бұрын

I love him and could listen to his stories all day.

@magdolnatakacs8023 5 ай бұрын

I know the thrill. When I was a kid we exchanged letters with friends and distant family a lot and the feeling of waiting for the response letter was marvellous 😊

@francescahw69 5 ай бұрын

This is so sweet 😢😢 wr need to finde Wendy for Ian 😢😢❤😊

@normadesmond6017 5 ай бұрын

what a sweet memory

@charliechuggerz 5 ай бұрын

awww he’s getting older and softer if that makes sense i hope he knows how beloved he is

@user-hd9nc7zp1v 5 ай бұрын

I know he's very old now but I would love to see Sir Ian back as Magneto in the MCU.

@user-eq2dx2jp6v 5 ай бұрын

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 thank u all

@Leiflvr 5 ай бұрын

Wendy + Red Chair...do NOT let me down Graham!

@JarmelSingsKaraoke 5 ай бұрын

🔥🔥🔥

@senguptasayn 5 ай бұрын

I was actually hoping Wendy would enter the stage.

@marklandgraf7667 2 ай бұрын

Josh finally got in a good joke :)

@vaibhavsingh1282 5 ай бұрын

get wendy on the red chair asap

@AutmRaw 2 ай бұрын

#adorbs 🥰

@muncangel5993 5 ай бұрын

These letters, if still alive, have only value for Wendy...very sweet story...

@sherryhesner5940 5 ай бұрын

❤

@ee-hd2is 5 ай бұрын

😢❤

@soijustlistenedto... 5 ай бұрын

i also wrote confession letters to two of my long-time crushes!!!!!! neither responded, though! well, i think the silence is their answer

@belsdacumos 5 ай бұрын

hoping you can feature The Rose as a musical guest too

@malibu_rum 4 ай бұрын

I don't know who the gentleman on the rightmost of the couch is, but that was a sublime punchline to end the anecdote that was meandering and almost about to end in a deflated way!

@poppyab9746 5 ай бұрын

Imagine Wendy in the Red Chair… I now realize a 100 people have suggested this.

@drunkvader 5 ай бұрын

Man, I always picture it's Gandalf speaking rather than Sir Ian

@sarahtherunner 5 ай бұрын

Maybe she kept a carbon copy and she has all their correspondence. That would be nice for both of them to share with each other.

@babbisp1 3 ай бұрын

Nts 0:38 1:06 1:24 1:52 1:58

@batchint 5 ай бұрын

what if they had found the wendy house… 🎉

@The401EMT 4 ай бұрын

Wendy grew up, while Sir Ian grew became Gandalf and Magneto. Wendy grew to marry, raise a family, and have grandchildren and even great grandchildren. The time she met Sir Ian at the show later on was almost the world's way of saying "Hello love, I'm doing alright"

@McLintox 3 ай бұрын

*Magneto

@LilTy702 12 күн бұрын

The way these modern girls text back I might as well be sending letters

@Forge17 5 ай бұрын

Ian Mckellan’s first husband, Wendy ❤

@K.L.M.6208 5 ай бұрын

Please find Wendy..

@binoymathew246 5 ай бұрын

Why Graham...why would you do that to poor Ian? He's distraught.

@pedrotavares3426 5 ай бұрын

I think he's evaluating his life, it almost seems he's near the end.

@wendyschlagwein5824 5 ай бұрын

He always was a story teller bless him. Not different now. But life will end for every body eventually.

@stelios2506 5 ай бұрын

Oh cause they're the ones that are worth the money 😂😂😂

@iiqspat2629 5 ай бұрын

It’s funny, I sent him fan mail and asked him to sign a dvd cover of my favourite dvd. He sent it back unsigned. So yes Sir Ian, we know how it feels to wait and wait and be disappointed

@predatoryzzx 5 ай бұрын

What movie was it?

@iiqspat2629 5 ай бұрын

@@predatoryzzx fellowship of the ring

@OLAJONES 5 ай бұрын

why are people demonising philip schofield when he has just come out of a relationship with a 30 year old man !!!!

@S1L3NTG4M3R 5 ай бұрын

Who else is stuck in the never ending loop of The Graham Norton show. 👀👀

@mainly_marvel 5 ай бұрын

yoo

@route77productions 5 ай бұрын

Without fail, always comes in with the same copy paste comment in the first few minutes the vid is posted.

@S1L3NTG4M3R 5 ай бұрын

@@route77productions you figured it out... 👀👀 - LOL

@S1L3NTG4M3R 5 ай бұрын

@@route77productions byeeee

@Lambandpotatocurry 5 ай бұрын

Forever

@Lyana-co6xo 5 ай бұрын

I thought he died 🤔. Who's the one that died?

@animalfriend6413 4 ай бұрын

Michael Gambon, who played Dumbledore in Harry Potter.

@marklandgraf7667 2 ай бұрын

Christopher Lee

@Tucker-Man- 5 ай бұрын

I'm a native American English speaker and have no idea what he said 😂

@delilah28100 5 ай бұрын

get your ears checked

@illanohimitsu 5 ай бұрын

i’m asian and english isn’t my native tongue but i understood him perfectly…

@WillNewcomb 5 ай бұрын

As a 75 year old, I advise other oldies, such as Sir Ian, NOT to grow a beard. Sure you'll save a couple of minutes every morning but you'll look TERRIBLE!!!

@arborn6115 5 ай бұрын

yeah or maybe after 75 years on this planet you can finally realize that people have different tastes and opinions and its none of your business to tell them what to do and not to do.

@WillNewcomb 5 ай бұрын

@@arborn6115 So it's fine for you to tell me what to do or not to do!!!

@martalucas03 5 ай бұрын

he looks absolutely stunning to me

@usmanazam449 5 ай бұрын

I think older men usually have beards because they get a lot of wrinkles with old age. You have good skin so it looks good even without the beard.