It's not often (or ever) Graham Norton finds himself hitting the headlines for all the wrong reasons, but that was the case over the weekend when he managed to annoy an entire country by his comments on New Zealand boxer Joseph Parker.

If you watched Friday night's show you will have seen that Graham was joined by British boxing superstar Anthony Joshua. While on the couch, the boxer talked about potential upcoming opponents, one of which included Parker, and when Norton saw a picture of the Kiwi fighter, he joked that it would be an easy fight as he looked like the "king of pies".

However, New Zealand was not happy with the host being accused of belittling the boxer and 'fat shaming' him.

Parker himself took the comments in his stride, however, tweeting, 

Graham Norton then took to Twitter to reply today (Monday) saying:

 

So all's well that ends well, and sure if this is the only press negativity Graham Norton has managed to get so far in his long career then how bad.