June 12th, 2009 by Lisa McGarry. Tags: Jonathan-Ross, Take That
Jonathan Ross welcomes Take That to this week’s Friday Night With Jonathan Ross on BBC One.
The group talk about their next album – Gary Barlow says: “we haven’t started yet… we’re really looking forward to trying again.”
And Gary also explains how they still can’t believe their renewed success: “We’re genuinely surprised… trying to keep up with it all. This for us is enormous.”
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June 6th, 2009 by Lisa McGarry. Tags: BBC, Graham-Norton, Jonathan-Ross

Graham Norton is quite the BBC golden boy at the minute. His BBC Two chat show has been moved to the more popular BBC One and given a primetime slot on Monday nights.There is one man that may not be too pleased with the development though.
Jonathan Ross hosts the UK’s most popular chat show on a Friday night and though Norton’s show will air three days later, Beeb bosses have decided to film them on the same day. This will leave the two hosts battling it out for high profile guests.
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June 5th, 2009 by Lisa McGarry. Tags: BBC, Jonathan-Ross

Jonathan Ross welcomes Eric Cantona to this week’s Friday Night With Jonathan Ross on BBC One.
The footballing legend says he’s interested in managing Manchester United: “I had a great time here, the best time of my life was when I was in Manchester.”
He admits his infamous “seagulls” quote meant nothing and that he doesn’t regret his controversial past: “[Being banned] was difficult, maybe I deserved it, gave me time to think. You have to come back even better… I don’t have any regrets, I just wanted to play the game.”
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May 29th, 2009 by Lisa McGarry. Tags: BBC, Joanna Lumley, Jonathan-Ross

Jonathan Ross welcomes Joanna Lumley to this week’s Friday Night With Jonathan Ross on BBC One.
The Queen of the Gurkhas Joanna Lumley talks about meeting the Prime Minister Gordon Brown: “… the Lumley self-pleading offensive… I begged him to take it into his own hands… the Government was being fed scare stories.”
She says she won’t stand for Parliament: “Glimpsing what they have to do, it’s such hard work, pretty punishing.”
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May 26th, 2009 by Lisa McGarry. Tags: BBC, Jonathan-Ross, Katie-Price

Katie Price has pulled out of her appearance on Jonathan Ross this Friday.
Katie was supposed to be giving Jonathan the first interview since her marriage breakup, detailing what happened and what she has planned for the future. According to her spokesman, however, Price “does not feel ready” to talk about her current situation.
It’s not like Katie to be so coy, she must have got a better and exclusive offer from another TV show or magazine.
May 20th, 2009 by Lisa McGarry. Tags: BBC, Jonathan-Ross

Jonathan Ross welcomes Martin Sheen to this week’s Friday Night With Jonathan Ross on BBC One.
Martin Sheen talks candidly about his hatred for former US President George Bush: “He was a bully, we were savaged by his lack of leadership.”
And he says: “After eight years of dictatorship a lot of people died, suffered, there was never any inkling of regret from this man.”
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May 12th, 2009 by Lisa McGarry. Tags: BBC-One, Ben Stiller, Eminem, Ewan McGregor, Jonathan-Ross

In his first ever British TV interview Eminem joins Jonathan Ross this week on his BBC One show Friday Night With Jonathan Ross.
He talks candidly about dissing celebs (Sarah Palin, Jessica Simpson, Amy Winehouse) on current single We Made You: “These aren’t personal attacks, it’s like picking names out of a hat… (but) Sarah Palin, I want to nail her!”
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May 5th, 2009 by Lisa McGarry. Tags: BBC, Jonathan-Ross, Loose Women, Tom Hanks
Tom confesses he’s a big Loose Women fan: “Angels And Demons – the new name for Loose Women! They’re the type I was too shy to approach.”
And those Loose Women also join Jonathan on the couch. Carol McGiffin talks about her toyboy: “I’m going backwards, I think I’m ten years younger than I actually am,” but fellow host Coleen Nolan doesn’t approve: “an older woman going out with someone they could have given birth to!”
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April 28th, 2009 by Lynn Rowlands-Connolly. Tags: BBC, car, Jonathan-Ross, Mrs Angry, News, Nicole Kidman, Susan Boyle, Things I’m sick of hearing & seeing on TV!

It’s been a while since I had a good old rant so the pressure’s been building… and now it’s going to blow! There are some things that I am sick to death of seeing and hearing about on telly, and here’s just a few of them…
For a start, as good as she undoubtedly is, I am sooooooooooooooooo sick
of hearing about Susan Boyle; she’s like poop in a cow field – you just can’t avoid her. Yes, she’s good, yes she’s ‘plain’ looking, yes people in the media industry are gagging to give her a makeover. Who cares?? There’ve been more – or at least equally – talented people on similar shows, such as Leona Lewis or Rhydian but in a society that prizes beauty and thinness so much, oddly, no such fuss was made of Leona, but bring on someone who looks like your average I-shop-at-Tesco-in-a-mac looking woman and everyone goes nuts!
And because she looks like she does/did, the BGT panel all clearly impatiently waited for something like a tortured cat sound to come out of her and then sat there like slack jawed yokels when she sounded good… and why? Because she’s not the prettiest of women let’s face it, so they didn’t expect her to have a good voice, but nonetheless, I’m sick to death of hearing about her and seeing her. It’s not her fault and I have no issues with her personally, but dang it, she’s even been mentioned on South Park! Read more & comment »
April 4th, 2009 by Lisa McGarry. Tags: BBC, Jonathan-Ross, Russell-Brand

Cabinet Minister Hazel Blears has suggested that Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross stump up the £150,000 fine which has been imposed on the BBC over their actions.
Regulator Ofcom imposed the fine for what it called the “gratuitously offensive, humiliating and demeaning” prank calls, broadcast last October on Brand’s Radio 2 show.
“I was quite surprised when I read about this, that Ofcom were fining the BBC.”
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April 3rd, 2009 by Lisa McGarry. Tags: Jonathan-Ross, Whoopi Goldber
Whoopi Goldberg joins Jonathan Ross on his BBC One show Friday Night With Jonathan Ross.
She confirms her good friend, Ghost co-star Patrick Swayze, is doing well: “He’s working his butt off, doing all kinds of exercises. He doesn’t have an expiration date; when it comes, it comes.”
And talks about the new political dawn in the US and how she considered a career in politics: “… but I have a lot of stuff in my closet, you’re not allowed to be a human being, you have to walk a path that’s near impossible to walk.”
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April 1st, 2009 by Lisa McGarry. Tags: Jonathan-Ross

Jonathan Ross has been voted the Worst Dressed Man by mens GQ magazine.
The TV presenter was up against stars like Russell Brand and Prime Minister Gordon Brown but beat them to the top of the magazine’s annual poll.
Columnist Tony Parsons said: “His jokes aren’t funny anymore and neither are the suits. His clothes make you cry.”
March 22nd, 2009 by Lisa McGarry. Tags: BBC, Jonathan-Ross, Mike Tyson

The BBC have banned Jonathan Ross from interviewing convicted rapist Mike Tyson on his Friday night chat show.
The Daily Mail reports that Executives at Ross’s production company, Hot Sauce, had been considering inviting Tyson on as a guest but BBC bosses vetoed the idea.
Tyson was convicted of raping Desiree Washington, a Miss Black America beauty contestant in 1992.
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March 20th, 2009 by Lisa McGarry. Tags: BBC-One, Jonathan-Ross, Lionel Richie

Lionel Richie joins Jonathan Ross tonight on his BBC One show Friday Night With Jonathan Ross and reveals he’s behind Michael Jackson’s return.
“I am so excited about this, I’ve been pushing him for the longest time … get out of the house, get back onstage … if I can get him back out there one more time it’ll be fabulous,” say Richie.
He also announces the Commodores farewell tour: “I promise something will happen soon.” And performs an impromptu duet with Jonathan.
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March 6th, 2009 by Lisa McGarry. Tags: Annie Lennox, BBC, Dexter, James Corden, Jonathan-Ross, Michael C Hall, Ruby Wax

James Corden joins Jonathan Ross this week on his BBC One show Friday Night With Jonathan Ross and talks about the pressure of success.
He says: “I had a slight moment of madness but nothing too serious…I’ve certainly made a fool of myself.”
He also tells Jonathan about his experience coaching the England football team: “Meeting David Beckham was unnerving, I didn’t know whether to shake his hand or kiss his face…the most beautiful man I’ve ever seen.”
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