Jonathan Ross

Dani Garavelli: Right royal conundrum

Published Date: 16 November 2008 WHEN it comes to the Royal Family, I generally find I'm sucked into a vortex of apathy. On a political level then, the question of whether Prince Charles ever becomes king doesn't interest me....

Educated Catholics have sown dissent and confusion in the Church claims bishop

University-educated Catholics are to blame for the crisis in the Church and the growth of secularism, according to the bishop charged with tackling the decline in Mass attendance. By Jonathan Wynne-Jones, Religious Affairs...

Penelope Wilton: an actress who epitomises all things quintessentially English

From battling the Daleks to tackling TS Eliot, Penelope Wilton cannot resist a challenge – but she is remarkably shy off-stage. She is now in rehearsal for The Family Reunion, TS Eliot's modern Greek tragedy set in an English...

The Insider: 'Honestly, who do they think I am? Jonathan Ross?'

'All this to leer like a dirty old man at dozens of women half my age.' MONDAY, November 3 I’m in Dubai, making a documentary for ITV, and spent this morning with Dr Sulaiman Al Fahim, the flamboyant entrepreneur behind the Abu...

Racist Taxi Row - 'Don't Send A Paki For Me,' Says Presenter

Just when everyone thought 'Manuelgate' was over, which it is, comes another racism row for the BBC. After the racist comments made about Spaniard Manuel Sachs by Jonathan Ross and that other fellow a BBC radio presenter has...

Jonathan Glancey: Shopping and circuses

Chariot racing is to come to the Dome. Sorry, the O2 Arena, or what was once the great tented home of the embarrassing and largely forgotten Millennium Experience. The announcement was made days after the opening of the...

It's all great news for Phil

Published Date: 15 November 2008 THERE'S no escaping the fact that Phil MacHugh is Edinburgh's very own It Boy. And now, the 23-year-old from the New Town has just become the Scotland correspondent for Five News, so everyone...

Brian Reade: Home-grown kids wilting under Rafa Benitez

Most Liverpool fans were not too worried about their reserve side being knocked out of the Carling Cup by a resurgent Spurs. But they were shocked by a defensive unit which looked so weak and wooden you wondered if they were 4...

Is Becks' First Home Worth 850k?

10:48am UK, Saturday November 15, 2008 Simon Newton, Sky News Online These days he owns homes around the world and lives a life of glamour and wealth. Would you pay £850,000 for this place...? But David Beckham's early days...

Laugh? Not at these old witless windbags

Peter Ustinov, who died four years ago, bizarrely featured in two nostalgia programmes during the week. On Gaybo Laughs Back (RTE1) we saw him in a Late Late Show clip from the 1970s, while over on BBC4 he was the subject of...