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BBC chiefs to slap swearing ban on Ross
Amar Singh17 Dec 2008
JONATHAN ROSS is to be given a set of rules banning swearing and sexual language when he meets BBC bosses today ahead of his return to work next month.
The 48-year-old presenter, who was suspended earlier this year after he and Russell Brand left obscene messages on the voicemail of actor Andrew Sachs, 78, is due to resume his £6 million-a-year job at the end of January.
But in his first meeting at the BBC since his suspension, Ross, his agent, and producers of his talk show Friday Night With Jonathan Ross will be formally told by senior executives that he is returning on the condition that he cuts out all smutty language.
Friday Night With Jonathan Ross is set to face new scrutiny after it emerged that during the phone prank row, Ross breached guidelines when he used sexually explicit language during an interview with Gwyneth Paltrow.
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If Jonathan Ross is unable to professionally present programmes without discourse to swearing and sexual inuendo, then he can hardly call himself a 'professional'. So why are the BBC paying him all that money?
- Joannie, London, England, 17/12/2008 21:49
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I like Gwyneth Paltrow and think she is the most beautiful woman on God's sweet Earth.
Ross is on my list...
- Paul, Bromley, 17/12/2008 18:45
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In the past he never swore, just like Billy Connolly, then he got caught up in the modern vogue for it and quite often it is out of context.I am sure he does not swear in front of his children, why should he swear in front of mine if they stay up late to watch a star like Kelly Brook who is never caught swearing.
- Jack Spratt, Richmond, England, 17/12/2008 16:12
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Nick from Croydon - you're right in part of what you say.... "there is very little point in ... (Jonathan Ross)". Free expression is one thing, but totally childish waffle is irrelevant. Ross is only ever interested in what he has to say NOT what his guests have to say. Ross is "irrelevant" and has no contribution to make to broadcasting.
- Malcolm, London, 17/12/2008 15:49
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It seems pretty worthless for him to continue as people tune in to hear him being offensive and rude
I won't bother to watch a sanitised show. But then he should have sacked anyway. 6 million a year to talk trash on the TV. How absurd.
- Mel Barrows, Tenerife. Canary Islands., 17/12/2008 15:34
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"R.F.York, Yorks, UK" - grow up!
- Colin Austen, London, 17/12/2008 14:43
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The BBC should ban laughing on his show aswell.....idiots
- Alan, London, 17/12/2008 13:01
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Quite frankly if Ross cuts out all the 'swearing and smutty' language there is very little point in him doing his show at all. The show goes out late on a friday night so I really don't understand what the problem is. If you don't like childish and/or close to the knuckle humour, then don't watch it!
- Nick, croydon, surrey, 17/12/2008 12:34
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I bet he wishes he'd resigned and gone to another channel...
- Arthur Pantry, London, 17/12/2008 11:08
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Unless and until this vile individual is removed from our screens I will not be paying a licence fee. He is grossly obscene and an insult to human decency.
- R.F.York, Yorks, UK, 17/12/2008 10:41
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