Another Kiwi Survives Graham Norton's Red Chair With EPIC Story

A Kiwi living in London has conquered talk show host Graham Norton's notorious red chair with a story featuring the ashes of a woman's dead husband and a disastrous fall in Italy.

Brad Baxter, originally from Christchurch, featured in the chair in an episode of The Graham Norton Show which aired in Britain on Friday.

During the popular segment, the person sitting tells a story and if they fail to entertain Norton or his audience, a lever is pulled and they're dumped backward out of the chair.

If they succeed in holding the room's attention, they get to walk away.

Mr Baxter chose to tell the story from his time travelling in Italy, when an Italian woman took him in in the pouring rain.

"I was soaking wet and she offered me a change of clothing, and that's where everything went wrong," he said.

"I happened to fall over and knock over an urn that was on the bookshelf that I was getting changed next to and it ended up falling. The end result was myself covered in someone's ashes.

"To make matters just a little bit worse, when I managed to finally pull my pants up from around my ankles and brush off some of the ash, I saw a photo of the lady and what looked like her husband. He was wearing the same trousers as I was wearing."

Mr Baxter is one of many Kiwis who have sat in the chair and Norton has admitted a fascination with the New Zealand accent.

- NZ Herald