Ross caaaaaaan!

Who doesn’t love this guy? Come on he is the ultimate funny man loaded with banter, gadgets, gizmos and a wardrobe of plenty! If you don’t know him from his former prime time BBC1 slot Friday Night with Jonathan Ross, then you may well have listened to his Saturday morning shows on Radio 2. Not tuned in here? OMG where have you been, ok in that case you will have gasped at his scandalous antics with Russell Brand better known as the ‘Sachs-gate’ affair. It was this faulty little prank that went a little too far and led to Ross’ suspension from the BBC last year.

In The Guardian Weekend with Simon Hattenstone Ross talks of his return to TV and his deserved £6m salary: ‘We took the Friday night slot, which didn’t exist, and made it upwards of four million people a week’. Then of his radio and film review show success, there’s no denying he had carved himself a niche that sat him, alongside his four man musical entourage, in very good stead.

So the big come back and a new number for Ross in a contract with ITV where he can don the entertainer party hat once more, there’s no one better there’s no one greater! Ever modest he knows that ‘there’s an audience out there for him’, and I agree. What’s more is that we know Ross will drive forward with fiendish demeanour to ensure that he succeeds in this new venture, and I think there is a general sense of wanting him to after being so vilified. In his interview with Hattenstone there is however a contemplation that there will be a time when he becomes disposable and detached from television; and this is the real man talking, the Ross behind the inappropriate, outrageous honesty on screen. Until that time, he is back in business and is he ever The Jonathan Ross Show opening night engrossed an audience of 4.3 million. The line up was impressive too with the likes of Sarah Jessica Parker, Formula One's Lewis Hamilton and the AMAZING Adele who performed another goose bump provoking show stopper, not too shabby!
I was raised with the likes of Parky who, always a gentleman, hosted a show of timeless interviews and Hollywood classics. For me Ross is just as charismatic and also has that lovable quality that translates through our television screens. Personable and absorbing in his way, he presents in an effortless manner unlike his contemporaries Alan Carr and Graham Norton. There is no try-hard awkwardness and the cringe worthy moments that do occur are those of unscripted comedy at its best.