On each episode of WE tv’s new game show Most Popular (Thursdays, 10 p.m. ET), seven women face an audience of 100 females who, after each revealing round of questioning, must vote for the lady they’d like to leave the stage. The audience members then tell host Graham Norton why they gave the contestant the boot. “Having it be all women gives it an edge,” says Norton, who admits that occasionally he’s appalled by what he hears. (“I did ask,” he says in their defense.) “As a man, I find it fascinating the way that women judge each other. I suppose because women are used to feeling like they’re being judged all the time — when they leave the house, they think about what they’re wearing, how their hair is, they wonder how other people are responding to them in a way that, perhaps, some men don’t — they feel free-er to give opinions about seven women who’ve walked on stage and gone, Yeah, do you like me? It’s a popularity contest, and you can’t explain it: Some people are just likable. A hundred women sit there thinking, Yeah, we like you. Even though you’ve run over your dog or you’ve slept with married men. We just like you.”

How popular will Norton — best known for his hilarious and outrageous chat shows on British TV — be after he takes the EW Pop Culture Personality Test? Let’s find out.

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Have you ever written to fan letter to someone?
GRAHAM NORTON: I wrote a fan letter to Rupert Everett once. He was in the Noel Coward play The Vortex in the West End and I’d read in the newspaper that someone wrote a letter to him of complaint saying that they’d enjoyed the show but they couldn’t hear him. They’d wished he’d spoken up a bit. And he wrote them a letter back saying, “Glad you enjoyed the show. I’m sorry your enjoyment was marred by my performance being inaudible. I hope these few enclosed pubic hairs make up for some of the disappointment.” [Laughs] You can imagine this lovely suburban woman was appalled to open this letter and find Rupert Everett’s pubic hair inside. I thought it was hilarious, so I wrote him a letter to tell him I thought it was so funny. I was still at drama school, so this would have been back in 1988.

The piece of pop culture memorabilia from your childhood you wish you still had?
I was a big collector when I was a kid because I grew up in Ireland. There was very little to do, so collecting was almost an activity. I had my David Cassidy scrapbook. But then have you ever met David Cassidy? [Laughs] Yeah, I shed fewer tears about losing my David Cassidy scrapbook than I once did. 

Your geekiest possession today?
I have a Carrie Fisher Pez dispenser. Well, it’s a Princess Leia Pez dispenser. I sort of know her a bit, so I see it as Carrie. She came into my house, and that’s just embarrassing that you’ve got a really dusty Pez dispenser of somebody on a shelf in your kitchen.

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