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14 unusual facts about Jonathan Ross


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The station was endorsed by many celebrities including Chris Evans, Jonathan Ross, Lorraine Kelly, Carol Vorderman, Chris Jarvis and many more.

Alison Wheeler

Virginia featured repeatedly as guests on BBC Radio, particularly Janice Long, Jonathan Ross, Gyles Brandreth, Nicky Campbell and Ned Sherrin, as well as TV appearances in Northern Ireland on the Kelly Show.

Andrew Maxwell

Warm-up slots on British television shows Jonathan Ross, Johnny Vaughan, and They Think It's All Over soon followed.

Cris Bonacci

After leaving Girlschool, she worked also as a session guitarist and became a member of Jonathan Ross' house band for the British TV show Saturday Zoo, where she backed international artists such as Suzanne Vega, k.d. lang, etc.

Isis Adventure

The Isis I has featured on both TV (on The Jonathan Ross Show on the 29 September 2006 and Dragons Den on the 21 March 2007) and in print media (such as the Chester Chronicle)

James More

In 2011, More returned to the UK and appeared on the pilot episode of ITV's primetime entertainment extravaganza Penn & Teller: Fool Us, where he performed in front of Penn & Teller and Jonathan Ross.

Jennie McAlpine

At the grand final at Comedy Store in London she met TV presenter Jonathan Ross and comedian Peter Kay, and was so inspired that she entered a second time in 1998, coming second again.

Kim West

In 1992 West was asked by Jonathan Ross in a television interview if women would be wearing latex to the supermarket by the time she was 60, she replied confidently "Absolutely".

Live! Tonight! Sold Out!!

#"Territorial Pissings" (In two parts: 1991.12.06 - UK TV show Jonathan Ross / 1991.11.25 - Paradiso, Amsterdam, Holland)

Only Your Love

This led Jonathan Ross to jokingly thank 'The Rolling Stones' after Bananarama had performed the song on his TV show.

Operahouse

Operahouse released their debut single, "Man Next Door" in March 2007 on Glaze Records to great response, earning plaudits and airplay from such stations as BBC 6 Music, Xfm, and BBC Radio 2's Jonathan Ross.

Paul Zerdin

Zerdin first appeared on TV as the first winner of the Big, Big, Talent Show presented by Jonathan Ross.

Planet Relief

People reported to have been involved with the show included comedians Ricky Gervais and Graham Norton, entertainment personality Jonathan Ross, the head of BBC comedy Jon Plowman and environmental expert Matt Prescott.

Winker Watson

Stories throughout 2003 and 2004 were reworkings of 1970s scripts concerning Winker's schemes to foil the plans of Robin Boodle, a consistently annoying rich boy, and who had been renamed Darby Doshman (in the late 1980s, there was a similar reworking in which the rich boy became Jonathan Dosh).


The Magic Numbers

Their Japanese tour was featured as a side documentary on Jonathan Ross's Japanorama.

Themes in Blade Runner

"That was the main area of contention between Ridley and myself at the time," Ford told interviewer Jonathan Ross during a BBC1 Hollywood Greats segment.

United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest 2006

Opinions on each song and performance were given by a panel consisting of four celebrities: singer Kelly Osbourne, radio and television show host Jonathan Ross, television presenter Fearne Cotton, and Strictly Come Dancing panellist Bruno Tonioli.