{"id":234377,"date":"2025-10-30T17:26:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T17:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/234377\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T17:26:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T17:26:13","slug":"my-encounter-from-hell-with-foul-jonathan-ross-like-so-many-others-id-always-found-him-rude-says-katie-hind-then-he-did-something-so-cruel-to-me-it-says-everything-about-his-ego","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/234377\/","title":{"rendered":"My encounter from hell with foul Jonathan Ross: Like so many others, I’d always found him rude, says KATIE HIND. Then he did something so cruel to me… it says everything about his ego"},"content":{"rendered":"

I thought it was a perfectly fair question. Did Jonathan Ross<\/a> still think he had a future at the BBC<\/a> after being pulled off air for leaving lewd messages on actor Andrew Sachs\u2019 answer phone during his Radio 2 show with Russell Brand<\/a>?<\/p>\n

But it prompted him to become very unpleasant indeed.<\/p>\n

\u2018I know the BBC never stopped trusting me,\u2019 he fumed when I met him at a showbiz party in March 2009, just five months after \u2018Sachsgate\u2019. It was a scandal that had engulfed not only Ross, who was suspended with no pay for 12 weeks, but the entire BBC, which was fined \u00a3150,000 by Ofcom<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2018I will be having Russell on my show,\u2019 he boasted, seemingly unconcerned by the upset and distress he\u2019d caused the Fawlty Towers actor, who was 79 at the time. He then abruptly ended our conversation before I could ask any further questions.<\/p>\n

Yet that prank call – in which Ross and Brand made deeply offensive remarks referring to Brand\u2019s relationship with the actor\u2019s granddaughter Georgina Baillie – would undoubtedly change the way the public perceived \u2018loveable Wossy\u2019.<\/p>\n

It was staggering that he didn\u2019t think the BBC might have an issue with him because of it.<\/p>\n

Towering above me, 6ft 1in Ross was rude and, to my mind, extremely arrogant. Not all that different, in fact, to the petulant egomaniac eight million Traitors fans have been watching for the last three weeks.<\/p>\n

This week he was finally outed as a Traitor and, as he left the game, referred to his co-stars as \u2018idiots\u2019.<\/p>\n

\"Jonathan <\/p>\n

Jonathan Ross was voted off The Celebrity Traitors this week after being unmasked<\/p>\n

\"Ross's <\/p>\n

Ross’s loud, bellowing voice is terrifying, Katie Hind writes. The presenter clashed with several other contestants on the show, despite running a slick campaign in the notorious castle<\/p>\n

Though he ran a slick campaign in the castle, often referring to himself as a super-fan of the show, he also butted heads with several other contestants and rubbed more up the wrong way. Both Irish actress Ruth Codd and former rugby star Joe Marler might have smiled with particular satisfaction when his deception was finally uncovered.<\/p>\n

As one insider told me: \u2018He couldn\u2019t help but come across as the know it all, the big man.\u2019<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a sentiment shared by many in the showbusiness industry who have crossed paths with him during his 40-year career \u2013 myself included. For while he might make his fans laugh on the chat show he now hosts on ITV, and throw star-studded Halloween parties, I don\u2019t like him very much.<\/p>\n

Over the years I\u2019ve had several meetings with Ross, now 64, and his loud, bellowing voice is terrifying. I don\u2019t blame him for sending me away with a flea in my ear on occasion. I once knocked on the door of his home in Hampstead, north London, to ask about some over-the-top gardening renovations, for example.<\/p>\n

But when he took to Twitter in 2010 on a different matter, effectively setting the internet trolls on a campaign against me, I found him not only judgemental but cruel.<\/p>\n

Back then, the story in question appeared in a former gossip column I wrote for a Sunday tabloid.<\/p>\n

Crucially, I was on holiday when this story appeared and a more junior colleague was standing in for me. This colleague met Ross and Brand at Sir Richard Branson\u2019s annual pre-Wimbledon party at the Kensington Roof Gardens in London, then published details of the jovial and harmless conversation with Ross in the column, mostly poking fun at himself.<\/p>\n

Only Ross didn\u2019t see the funny side. Instead he took to Twitter to lambast me for apparently fabricating quotes.<\/p>\n

\u2018Sunday People today prints conversation Russell B and I had with a journalist. Not one single word that is quoted is true. Remarkable,\u2019 he raged on the social media platform.<\/p>\n

Ross had clearly got out of the wrong side of bed that Sunday morning back in June 2010. He then went on to say that he had never met me (which was a lie, since we\u2019d been introduced by his former publicist at that party a year before).<\/p>\n

He spluttered: \u2018We didn\u2019t talk to her at all so there is no real version! The whole encounter was fabricated!!\u2019<\/p>\n

As a result, I was trolled mercilessly on Twitter \u2013 now known as X. Tweeters enjoy the downfall of journalists and so Ross claiming I was dishonest, or some kind of charlatan, prompted an outpouring of hate for me.<\/p>\n

In my job I\u2019m used to it and try to let it go over my head, but that doesn\u2019t change the fact that he behaved in a bullish and unacceptable manner.<\/p>\n

I decided it was time to hit back. While the story appeared under my picture byline, I wasn\u2019t at work that week, I told him. \u2018You didn\u2019t meet me as I was on holiday with my family in Dorset. Not sure why you think I did chat to you the other night,\u2019 I wrote.<\/p>\n

He did chat to my colleague, of course, and the convention – which Ross surely knew full well \u2013 is that stories appearing in a gossip column are sometimes provided by other members of staff, especially when the columnist is on holiday.<\/p>\n

Ross refused to let it lie for some time, but did eventually accept I was not at fault.<\/p>\n

However, he still blocked me on Twitter \u2013 and to this day I am still blocked. Perhaps his overinflated ego means he expects everyone to automatically bow down to him. In which case the deliciously back-stabbing actions of fellow-traitors Alan Carr and Cat Burns this week must have come as rather a shock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I thought it was a perfectly fair question. Did Jonathan Ross still think he had a future at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234378,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[243,6491,97,96,78198,388,478,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-234377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-bbc","tag-celebrities","tag-dailymail","tag-entertainment","tag-jonathan-ross","tag-london","tag-tvshowbiz","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}