Film star Ray Winstone joins Jonathan on his sofa this week and the cockney film star admits he had reservations about the Olympics. He says, “I wasn’t looking forward to the Olympics. There was traffic and all that stuff, and also the amount of money that was put into the Olympics when it could have been spent on things like education and hospitals, things that we need. Fire stations. Having said that, they can’t take nothing away from the athletes, they were fantastic. It was a great event. It won me over.”

Ray also wonders how the Olympic stadium will be used in the future. He says, “How many times is that stadium going to be used? Once every six months? Maybe they’ve got a plan but let us know what that is.”

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The world’s biggest sporting heroes join the fun on ITV1’s Red and Black? on Monday night. Football greats Cesc Fàbregas and Robin Van Persie took on the ultimate penalty shoot out whilst Formula One stars Jenson Button and David Coulthard will be battling it out live in the studio.

FÀBREGAS VS VAN PERSIE
Two footballing greats go head to head in the ultimate penalty shoot in tonight’s Red or Black?

Barcelona’s Cesc Fàbregas and Arsenal’s Robin Van Persie compete in the Wembley Arena challenge Strike Out.

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Who is quicker – Jenson or Lewis? That’s the question that will be on every motor racing fan’s lips when Jenson Button joins Lewis Hamilton as his team mate at McLaren next season.

But BBC Two’s Top Gear can give an early taster of the battle to come when newly-crowned World Champion Jenson Button takes to the track as the special guest in this Sunday’s show.

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Sir Terry Wogan, Jenson Button and Andre Agassi join Jonathan Ross for this week’s Friday Night With Jonathan Ross on BBC One.

Sir Terry, who retires from the BBC Radio 2 breakfast show this month, says: “My heart says stay, my head says go. There’s never a good time to go but there’s a right time to go.”

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