William, 44, told the Graham Norton Show that as a younger man he wanted to be a police officer and believed he would have been good at it. He later went through a phase of wanting to be a DJ and admitted he was not very good.
William said the BBC's The Traitors is loved across his family, with his children Charlotte and Louis, aged 11 and eight, described as obsessed with the show.
William, who founded the Earthshot Prize in 2020, promoted the award on the show. The 2026 winner will be revealed on 17 November in Mumbai, India.
Prince William, 44, made an unannounced appearance on The Graham Norton Show, the BBC chat show, while host Graham Norton was talking with his guests. Sources describe the episode as pre-recorded, and they differ on the airing day: a Romanian report said it would be shown on Friday evening, while a Greek report said it aired on Thursday, 22 October. William was there to promote the Earthshot Prize, which he founded in 2020. Actress Cate Blanchett, actress Hannah Waddingham and conservationist Robert Irwin, all involved in the prize, were on the sofa with him. Greek outlets called William the first member of the royal family to sit on the famous sofa, while iefimerida pointed out that Princess Anne and Prince Philip had appeared on the earlier show Wogan in 1985 and 1986. A Romanian report, citing AFP, named Sarah Ferguson, the former wife of Prince Andrew, as the only royal who had appeared on the programme before, in 2009.
Asked what he would have done had he not been destined for the throne, William said he wanted to be a police officer as a boy and believed he would have been good at it. He then went through a phase of wanting to become a DJ, though he admitted with humour that he was not especially good at it. Several Greek outlets led their coverage with these remarks, which became the most widely repeated part of the appearance.
William said the BBC game show The Traitors, in which contestants try to unmask traitors secretly chosen from within their group, is a favourite across his family. He said his children Charlotte and Louis, aged 11 and eight, are obsessed with it. He also recounted, with a laugh, meeting actor and presenter Ross Kemp the day after the first episode aired. He tried discreetly to touch Kemp to see how he would react, and found that Kemp startled very easily.
Asked how he unwinds, William pointed to music and films, especially those that make viewers think. He named Christopher Nolan as a director he greatly admires and singled out the Dark Knight trilogy, which he described as psychologically dark and deep. He said Nolan takes unusual ideas and makes them enormously entertaining. On the Earthshot Prize, William explained that the idea grew from noticing how often environmental discussions were dominated by negativity and pessimism. He wanted an awards ceremony that would combine a call for urgent action with optimism, and that would back people around the world developing solutions to protect the planet. The 2026 Earthshot Prize winner will be revealed on 17 November in Mumbai, India.
iefimerida linked the appearance to a few days earlier, when Prince Harry gave an interview to GQ. In it, Harry said reconciling with his family was the most important thing to him, while adding that some people did not want it to succeed. The same outlet reported that William did not appear to address those remarks in the clips released so far.
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The Prince of Wales made his first appearance on The Graham Norton Show, where he said he once wanted to be a police officer and later went through a DJ phase. He also said his family is hooked on The Traitors.
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