{"id":394889,"date":"2026-04-24T04:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T04:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/394889\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T04:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T04:46:09","slug":"graham-norton-admits-being-left-in-tears-as-he-opens-on-itv-the-neighbourhood-moment-tear-to-my-eye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/394889\/","title":{"rendered":"Graham Norton admits being left in tears as he opens on ITV The Neighbourhood moment: &#8216;Tear to my eye&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Graham Norton is set to host the latest ITV show which sees households go against once another for a staggering prize \u2013 with Mr Norton opening up about one moment he was left touched.<\/p>\n<p>The Neighbourhood is a thrilling new reality entertainment format, which sees families and households compete in a street-sized popularity contest, battling it out for the chance to take home a life-changing \u00a3250,000 cash prize.<\/p>\n<p>Taking part in the brand new series are the Kandolas and Samra, who are a blended family from Bedfordshire, made up of mum Sunita, her husband Tony, and Sunita\u2019s son Ruben.<\/p>\n<p>Next is the Scouse Haus, which sees twin sisters Louise and Lyndsey be joined by Lyndsey\u2019s girlfriend Rosie.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"8ccb1\" data-rm-shortcode-id=\"d111887535cc31dc33eb7b70f22b7d2e\" data-rm-shortcode-name=\"rebelmouse-image\" class=\"rm-shortcode rm-lazyloadable-image \" lazy-loadable=\"true\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%201200%20800'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-runner-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/the-neigbourhood.png\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"The Neigbourhood\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Graham Norton hosts the latest ITV show in a bid to help one household <\/p>\n<p> | <\/p>\n<p>ITV <\/p>\n<p>The third family are the Brandon\u2019s from Essex, with mym Faye-Marie at he forefront, followed by her daughter Alicia, sons Lucas and Nathan, and Nathan\u2019s teenage son Zach.  <\/p>\n<p>From Cambridgeshire are the Pescuds, which sees Paul and Wendy compete with their children Grace and Harrison. <\/p>\n<p>Away from the family relationships are the Uni Boys from Nottingham, which is made up by close group of friends &#8211;  Hadi, Kevin, DJ and Fahad.  <\/p>\n<p>Lastly are the Lozman-Sturrocks who are a closeknit family from Darlington made up of Christine, her husband Dave, her son Jordan and Jordan\u2019s wife Katie. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"42889\" data-rm-shortcode-id=\"e04967877a0f3cdcfd090eeb14273ae2\" data-rm-shortcode-name=\"rebelmouse-image\" class=\"rm-shortcode rm-lazyloadable-image \" lazy-loadable=\"true\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%201200%20800'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-runner-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/graham-norton.png\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"Graham Norton\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Graham Norton opened up about the moment which left him in tears <\/p>\n<p> | <\/p>\n<p>ITV <\/p>\n<p>When discussing what was his favourite thing from the show, he admitted: \u201cOne of the loveliest things about the show is seeing households who would never meet in real life, not only meeting but forming proper bonds of friendship.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are a few moments in the show that really do bring a tear to my eye because it\u2019s just so genuine, so lovely and properly heartwarming.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s such an odd word to describe a show like this but it\u2019s properly wholesome &#8211; there\u2019s something about the bright colours, being out in the countryside, and the genuine bonds that you see created.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p>When comparing the new series against others, Mr Norton said of the format: \u201cBecause it is \u2018The Neighbourhood\u2019 we can all relate because unless you\u2019re very, very rich you probably have neighbours! <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"142e2\" data-rm-shortcode-id=\"3d547654612118cc788517c754467479\" data-rm-shortcode-name=\"rebelmouse-image\" class=\"rm-shortcode rm-lazyloadable-image \" lazy-loadable=\"true\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%201200%20712'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-runner-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/the-neighbourhood.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"712\" alt=\"The Neighbourhood\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Six households will go head to head in a series of competitions<\/p>\n<p> | <\/p>\n<p>ITV<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"0bfa8\" data-rm-shortcode-id=\"f0561d93e1898cd20f80ed34243a5563\" data-rm-shortcode-name=\"rebelmouse-image\" class=\"rm-shortcode rm-lazyloadable-image \" lazy-loadable=\"true\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%201200%20712'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-runner-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1777005969_938_the-neighbourhood.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"712\" alt=\"The Neighbourhood\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The winner will take home a life-changing sum of money <\/p>\n<p> | <\/p>\n<p>ITV<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe all &#8211; even if you don\u2019t necessarily want to- you get drawn into those everyday dramas. The \u2018you haven\u2019t cut the lawn, they put the bins out wrong, you shouldn\u2019t park there\u2019.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat the show does is really amp those moments up, and dramatises them even more.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s the gameplay but because they\u2019re there all the time there\u2019s the reality that these people really are living next door to each other and watching each other like hawks and like any good neighbourhood. <\/p>\n<p class=\"our-standards\">\u201cYou want your way but you want to keep everyone sweet and that\u2019s the skill! This show has been cast really well, so these people are all really good at it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Our Standards:<br \/>\n        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gbnews.com\/about-us\/our-editorial-charter\" data-og-href=\"https:\/\/www.gbnews.com\/about-us\/our-editorial-charter\" data-og- rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The GB News Editorial Charter<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Graham Norton is set to host the latest ITV show which sees households go against once another for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":394890,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[3623,156,7386,111,139,69,437],"class_list":["post-394889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-celebrity","tag-entertainment","tag-itv","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}