Jonathan Ross

Jonathan Stephen Ross, OBE (born 17 November 1960) is an English television and radio presenter, best known for presenting the BBC One chat show Friday Night with Jonathan Ross during the 2000s. Ross also hosted his own radio show on BBC Radio 2, and acted as a film critic and presenter of the Film programme. After leaving the BBC, Ross then began hosting a new chat show on ITV, The Jonathan Ross Show. Other regular roles have included being a regular panellist on the comedy sports quiz They Think It's All Over and being a regular presenter of the British Comedy Awards.

Links To Peel
Jonathan Ross invited Peel for the late night Channel 4 chat show programme, The Last Resort With Jonathan Ross in October 1987, where Peel was co-guest with George Harrison. Peel and Ross later met on another TV programme, Shooting Stars in 1995 where Peel appeared with hosts Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer, captains Mark Lamarr, Ulrika Jonsson and fellow guests Chris Evans, Jonathan Ross and John Craven.

Peel admired Jonathan Ross' interview skills, by stating that on his 05 February 2003 show that Ross' interviews are brilliant because he treats people as equal after hearing him on BBC Radio 2 interviewing Noel Gallagher of Oasis, while waiting for the Pig in the car outside the shops.

Mentioned In Shows
1987 2001 2002 2003
 * 24 June 1987: Public Enemy, 'You're Gonna Get Yours (12 inch-Dub/Terminator X Getaway Mix)' (Def Jam) (JP: 'Bet Jonathan Ross didn't play that!')
 * 17 July 2001: Peel is having to use a different studio this evening. It's a Radio 2 studio, which he describes as "fantastically hot". (JP: 'Do you think Jonathan Ross might use this studio? That's pretty exciting isn't it really?')
 * 15 November 2001: Peel nearly missed start of show due to traffic holdup. While stationary on the motorway he phoned the Children In Need appeal on Radio Two, hosted by Jonathan Ross, and requested “Teenage Kicks”. It wasn’t played. Peel says they won’t be getting any money from him: “Play the tune, you get the money – it’s as simple as that.”
 * 09 May 2002: 'Swing Your Daddy' by Jim Gilstrap was played after Peel heard Jonathan Ross play it. JP rates it as one of the best singles of 1975.
 * 05 February 2003: (JP: 'Jonathan Ross is brilliant, much better on the radio than I think on the television to be honest, he's good on the telly, but on the radio much better because you know he treats his people as equal, because he believes that he is')