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Wanging On with Graham Norton and Maria McErlane

Graham's Thoughts on Ozempic

20 Apr 2026

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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?

0.031 - 1.373 Maria McErlane

You there with the illness.

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Chapter 2: What are the pros and cons of Ozempic?

3.015 - 7.741 Graham Norton

If you can stand, stand there. Whenever I meet anyone new, I like to picture them naked.

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8.002 - 8.582 Maria McErlane

Yes, you do.

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9.924 - 10.986 Graham Norton

Is that so wrong?

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11.026 - 21.359 Maria McErlane

Then you live in Hastings. I wonder what the point of having children was. If I know there was a free drink involved. You can become an alcoholic.

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Chapter 3: How can I deal with a clingy customer at the market?

21.379 - 40.615 Maria McErlane

I just squeezed one out ages ago. Hello, hello, hello, and welcome to this week's So So Offering Advice from myself and my good friend Maria McCurlin. It's Wangy on with Graham and Maria. Hello. Nice to see you, Graham. How are you? I'm very well. You're looking, Graham, may I say you're looking quite trim.

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41.035 - 48.925 Graham Norton

Trim? Am I? Are you on the... No, I am not on the pen, as it's called. People say, is she on the pen?

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Chapter 4: What should I consider about being childless in my thirties?

49.145 - 50.447 Graham Norton

This is... This is for a Zen pic.

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50.567 - 54.051 Maria McErlane

A Zen pic. Are they all the same? Is Munjaro... Are they all the same?

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54.031 - 60.6 Graham Norton

Well, Monjaro, Wegovy, I think there's another one. They're all the same GLP-1s, which is, you know, some sort of blocker.

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60.62 - 63.203 Maria McErlane

And is it like your diabetic pen? Do you just like stick it in your thigh?

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63.503 - 71.013 Graham Norton

I have tried it. Oh, really? Yeah, because I put on a bit of weight when I was on steroids because of my bodybuilding, obviously.

Chapter 5: How do societal expectations affect personal choices about family?

72.115 - 73.997 Maria McErlane

Miss Universe won't lift her own crown.

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76.238 - 93.854 Graham Norton

No, I had a lung issue, so I had some steroids. And they're horrible and hateful, but they do make you chub up. So I was a bit vain about that. And so I thought, oh, I'll get some Ozempic, which is very easy to get. It's awful to say. You just buy it, can't you? Yeah. But, you know, once upon a time, you had to kind of take bubble wrap around you and send a photograph off.

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93.894 - 95.275 Graham Norton

But now they just go, oh, here's some.

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95.335 - 98.738 Maria McErlane

Because it was made for diabetics. And I feel like diabetics now find it quite hard to get.

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98.798 - 104.423 Graham Norton

No, they don't. I think that's one of those fallacies that people who are anti-Ozempic say.

104.403 - 127.902 Maria McErlane

You know, the big knock-on effect of a Zempic is when you go to Denmark, home of a Zempic, it's lovely there because they actually tax companies in Denmark. So they've got all the Zempic millions sloshing around. So the roads are all lovely, streetlights all working, everyone's happy, bike lanes are all gorgeous.

128.182 - 130.326 Graham Norton

Why didn't Keir Starmer think of that?

130.542 - 135.787 Maria McErlane

Well, he needed to invent Ozempic first. And he was so busy running the country.

137.308 - 147.617 Graham Norton

He could make Labour's Ozempic, a different thing that doesn't work. No, I tried it, Graham, and you do just have to, you know, you have to get one jab.

Chapter 6: What are the implications of using Ozempic for weight loss?

147.637 - 168.34 Graham Norton

And I tried the lowest dose, obviously, ever. And into the tummy, not hurty at all. But, and it's meant to stop food noise. That's what they say. Oprah Winfrey always talks about food noise. Hunger pangs. Well, it's kind of like what's next? You know when people who really love food are going, that was a lovely breakfast. What am I having for lunch?

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Chapter 7: How can I navigate conversations about my life choices?

168.38 - 169.582 Graham Norton

You know, it's like it's constant.

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169.762 - 171.985 Maria McErlane

I sometimes wake up and wonder what I'm going to have for dinner.

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172.005 - 179.817 Graham Norton

Do you? You see, that never really occurs to me very much. But chocolate, on the other hand, so it didn't stop my chocolate noise.

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180.258 - 180.358 Maria McErlane

Oh.

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180.518 - 182.781 Graham Norton

If anything, it made that worse.

182.861 - 185.946 Maria McErlane

Because you thought, I'll eat as much chocolate as I like.

185.926 - 189.752 Graham Norton

But I felt very nauseous with it. Some people, you know, some people it works for.

189.832 - 191.435 Maria McErlane

Is that because you were eating a lot of chocolate?

191.455 - 193.257 Graham Norton

Chocolate, yeah. It could have been.

Chapter 8: What advice can I give to someone feeling pressured about parenthood?

346.914 - 352.182 Maria McErlane

But I think just seeing all the food puts them off, whereas it turns me on.

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352.955 - 361.96 Graham Norton

You're so easily pleased. But yes, most of my friends, or a lot of people I know, I would say, are on the pen, on the jabs. Really? Yeah.

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362.261 - 383.958 Maria McErlane

And I just feel like it's got to come home to roost. How so? Well, in that if something sounds too good to be true... It probably is. So you feel like at some point in the future, somebody will go, oh, by the way, that does this to you, you know, causes a liver failure or something. You know, in the same way, you know, cigarettes were great. They were recommended by doctors. I know.

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384.158 - 386.541 Maria McErlane

Vaping was supposed to be the great answer to smoking.

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386.561 - 397.896 Graham Norton

I watched some sort of PathƩ newsreel the other day where a doctor was going around hospital beds offering people a cigarette and they would go, oh, it's like a... Like that. And then, you know, oxygen masks. Yeah.

400.508 - 406.08 Maria McErlane

So times change. Yeah. Maturity awards used to get half a Guinness, didn't you? Did you? Yeah. To build up your honor.

406.1 - 407.162 Graham Norton

Almost worth having a baby.

408.686 - 413.556 Maria McErlane

I wonder what the point of having children was. If I know there was a free drink involved.

414.599 - 415.8 Graham Norton

You can become an alcoholic.

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