James,
Reading your cool analysis of my posting shows me up as over-emotional on the matter. Thinking about it and trying to honestly look at my feelings I don't have any grudges at Jonathan Ross. I watched him do a programme on Hitchcock for ITV last year and I was interested in him revisiting his old Leytonstone home near where Hitch was brought up. Overall he came across as intelligent, informed and interested in his subject. If he was
always like this it would be fine.
Jonathan Ross' wife shut down her Twitter account and complained that it was wrong that people had used it as a platform to attack her daughter (who is not in the public eye), for being fat, or too fat. At no time did she reflect or comment on another young girl, also not in the public eye (well, not a celebrity, I'm not saying she was the virgin mary), who had been attacked by her husband, (not directly mind you but via a third party) via her grandfather's answer phone - so the message can be played back!), using public broadcast radio (which he was then being paid £6 million a year for!), so the message has another audience (which turned out to be who knows who?)/
It was then on all the media and is now immortalised on youtube. Her crime? She dared to have sex with Russell Brand. A relationship that was private. It isn't anymore. Yet more horribly than that to go to her grandparents and say that basically she is a slut. Well, that is what is indelible. Why did they have to hear that? Why did they have to taint her relationship with her grandparents?
It was an abuse of his position as a member of the establishment. A powerful man. A rich man. A clever, intelligent, funny man (I remember the 20 minute introductions he used to do for the opening of the British Comedy Awards. Quite brilliant).
Now where everyone is concerning the fallout of this several years later is debatable. I however, don't like the argument, well, it was a long time ago.
Jonathan Ross doesn't need to work again but likewise, he won't be short of offers to do anything. In fact, he could do almost anything he wanted given his resources and talent.
All right. This is all faintly ridiculous when he has already recorded the show (and I hope it's a good show and I hope he did well on it).
I appreciate your time James,
Martin.