Jonathan Ross

Jonathan Ross is an English broadcaster, television personality, comedian and writer, born in London in 1960. He began his career as a television researcher and moved to presenting with the Channel 4 chat show The Last Resort with Jonathan Ross in 1987. He went on to become one of British television's best known chat show hosts, fronting Friday Night with Jonathan Ross on the BBC from 2001 to 2010, for which he won three British Academy Television Awards for Best Entertainment Performance, and later The Jonathan Ross Show on ITV. He hosted a BBC Radio 2 programme from 1999 to 2010 and served as film critic and presenter of the BBC film programme Film from 1999 to 2010. He was made an OBE in 2005 for services to broadcasting, and has also written comic books.