I’m struggling to avoid writing about the Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand affair, but it has to be said that the Daily Mail really do take the biscuit on this one. In it, Georgina Baillie calls for Brand and Ross to be sacked for leaving her grandfather ‘utterly horrified and disgusted’ after ringing him
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QuaequamBlog on 29th Oct 2008 (via theliberati.net)
Jonathan Ross isn’t my cup of tea, but my mum thinks he adorable and if visiting on a weekend, we expect to be treated to his chat show on a Friday night and to have his radio show on in the background on Saturday morning). This is despite her tendency to flinch at any hint
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StephenNewton on 19th Dec 2008 (via stephennewton.com)
A co-conspirator has forwarded me a note he's just found addressed to Jonathan Ross: "Dear Jonathan I've shagged your daughter. Who's laughing now? Regards, Gary Glitter" I wonder if Jonathan Ross will find that funny and the sort of thing the BBC should broadcast. I know I don't. Hat Tip: Anuj.
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BlaneysBlarney on 31st Oct 2008 (via donalblaney.blogspot.com)
The Daily Mail really has wanked itself off into a stupor about this one. Here’s their piece on the big BBC Brand/Ross/Sachs row, which has attracted over a thousand comments from scum bag readers (more comments than I’ve ever seen for any one Hate article). The reason why this story (complete with the most salacious pics)
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BoatangAndDemetriou on 28th Oct 2008 (via boatangdemetriou.wordpress.com)
Remember Sachsgate? The one where Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross left a series of less than subtle messages on Andrew Sachs’ voicemail, these being included in a broadcast on 18 October 2008, generating two whole complaints in just over a week? Of course, after the Mail On Sunday splashed on the story and launched its act of aggression, the number of complaints went into the tens of thousan...
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LiberalConspiracy on 16th Aug 2011 (via liberalconspiracy.org)
I am afraid I foresee the end of Jonathan Ross's career at the BBC. The Sun appears to have made it their top priority to call for his head. The rather harmless joke he made about giving an unnamed 86 year old one last night on his Radio 2 show fuelled the calls for him to go. I make no bones about it. I like Jonathan Ross's shows and his unique brand of humour. Yes, sometimes he goes to...
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IainDale on 26th Jan 2009 (via iaindale.blogspot.com)
Russell Brand fell on his sword yesterday. The Controller of Radio 2, Lesley Douglas, has also done the same. Jonathan Ross, quite naturally, has decided not to do the same and I imagine the BBC doesn't want to go through a lengthy legal battle with Ross's lawyers. Although Ross is being suspended without pay, I wanted to see him go. The BBC will not allow comments on their website to be...
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AndrewAllison on 30th Oct 2008 (via andrew-allison.blogspot.com)
Comment from The Daily Telegraph Simon Heffer: US can't get rid of George W Bush fast enough Charles Moore: Jonathan Ross's theatre of cruelty must be stopped with BBC licence fee boycott Vicki Woods: Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross, what is this passion for extended boyhood? Lionel Shriver: We savers are dupes Sam Leith: Supermarkets are evil: what a shame we love Tesco and Waitrose so ...
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AlexSingleton on 1st Nov 2008 (via blogs.telegraph.co.uk)
Jonathan Ross is like a figure from another age, stranded on the beach as the tide goes out. He symbolises boom-period excess, vulgarity and rudeness and as with the end of all eras there are those left behind who, quite suddenly without the individual noticing, find themselves out of fashion. I suspect Ross will be starting to get worried here, he's not stupid. If the BBC wants to ...
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IainMartin on 28th Oct 2008 (via blogs.telegraph.co.uk)
Jonathan Ross, 12 weeks while Brand and Douglas must depart? That stinks. Among BBC staff, there is anger that she has been forced to fall on her sword, while Jonathan Ross clings on to his job. Not just among BBC staff, I suspect. The test of what the public really thinks, whether they have the courage of their convictions, is at the end of the 12 weeks. Will you boycott the show when Ross return...
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NourishingObscurity on 30th Oct 2008 (via nourishingobscurity.blogspot.com)