Dear Graham Norton: 'Plans for my friend's stag do are turning into a nightmare'

Graham Norton
Dear Graham Norton: 'Plans for my friend's stag do are turning into a nightmare' Credit: Andrew Crowley/Getty Images 

Dear Graham

A friend of mine is getting married in the autumn and his best man is going overboard planning the stag do. We all have a round robin email where we've been comparing dates and ideas and his latest plan is flying to Marrakesh and getting Jeeps out into the desert to have a big dinner in a tent.

Lots of us can't afford anything like that, so people are saying they can't make this or that date. We don't want to say we want something simpler because we don't want the groom to feel he's not worth celebrating.

Do you have any tactical tips for dealing with the best man - or, come to that, any ideas for a celebration for 12 men in their thirties?

Billy, Kent

'Why do men think that the best way to celebrate their friend is an expensive weekend of self-inflicted torture?', says Graham Credit: Andrew Crowley

Dear Billy

So many stag dos sound...

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