BOLTON actor Sir Ian McKellen will feature among the guests on the Graham Norton Show this evening.

Sir Ian will appear alongside actors Sir Patrick Stewart and Hugh Jackman and singer James Blunt, chatting to Norton about his latest roles, starting at 10.35pm on BBC1. He moved to Bolton with his family in 1951 and is a former pupil of Bolton School

He achieved a global following for film roles including Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit trilogies and Magneto in the X-Men.