Jonathan's up for a BAFTA!

Posted by Jane Murphy

 

Poor Andrew Sachs. All he wants is a quiet life (aside from the occasional appearance in Dictionary Corner on Countdown, that is). But every time Jonathan Ross or Russell Brand do something of note, Sachsy is roused from his domestic idyll by story-hungry journos desperate for a quote.

The latest? Despite his post-Sachsgate three-month suspension, Jonathan has received a BAFTA nomination for his TV chat show.

Obviously, those upstanding folk at the Daily Mail were straight on the phone to the Sachs household. However, it seems Andrew's wife Melody answered the call - and duly gave the newspaper what it wanted by declaring herself to be "flabbergasted" at the news.

"Nobody is saying he hasn't got talent, but what he did was so disgusting," she continued. "It is wrong and bad timing to give or even put up this guy for recognition when he has done such a terrible thing."

Meanwhile, The Sun managed to get hold of Sachsy himself, who sounded far more willing to let bygones be bygones. That quote in full? "Blimey, that is a bit of a surprise - but good luck to him.

"It's all in the past and I don't feel any animosity towards him. I've been watching some of his shows since then and some of it is very good. I don't have anything against his talent." Ah, what a nice man!

So should Jonathan have been nominated? Should Andrew and Melody change their phone number? Tell us what you think.

Picture: PA

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Comments

[Felicity]

I have been a member of BAFTA for a decade. I am appalled that they should even consider a man who relies on insinuation and sexual double talk to make his show a success. I turn it off everytime I hear his signature tune as I find him boring, egocentric and unoriginal. It is a sorry state of affairs when outstanding people like Michael Parkinson are 'retired' and lightweights like Ross retained. It does not say alot about the respect TV producers hold the British Public in does it?

[stuart jay]

Reading a lot of the messages, Ross appears to be like Marmite to most people, who either love or hate him. Am I the only person who is indifferent to him?

[Pammie]

My sentiments entirely Mary...

[Hayley]

Jonathon Ross is fantastic love friday night and way better than alot of comedians!!!!!

I hope Jonathon Ross wins hands down and i have all faith he will!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[charlie]

Leaving aside the morality of `Sachs` affair, the simple truth is that Ross is a mediocre chat show host and you have to wonder why he was nominated, it was obviously a reaction to the sachs furore by the out of touch clique who run television, a pat on the back for poor persecuted little Jonny.

[Malcolm]

Wossy, you wrote here yesterday afternoon, "as a Spaniard I have always taken great exception to Sachs idiot portrayal in a stereotypical manner of my race". Well, first of all, 'Spanish' isn't a race, and you obviously miss the point of Fawlty Towers scripting - which was designed to mock ourselves (the British) because of our almost xenophobic attitude to foreigners.
We British have always had the ability to laugh at ourselves, but morons like Ross and Brand have reduced British comedy to the gutter.

[Cathy]

I think that both J.Ross and RB are a disgrace. They are the prime examples of gutter behavior. Few can say that they are acting rationally, and as for the nomination, well, it is absolutely appalling.

[Sue]

What is absolutely appalling is the fact that someone like Jonathan Ross could get nominated for an award after his gutter behavior,this is so, amusingly sad !!

[charlotte]

That's appalling. What a disgrace! What message is this giving to those growing up? That Jonathan Ross still needs to, hopefully.

[Mary]

I think it is a disgrace - and you wonder why some of the youths of today behave so
of the wall when they see that programe attacking Andrew Sach

[Peter]

Doesn't surprise me. The entertainment industry has always been a bolt hole for people with personality problems, the vain, the depressed, those who could never manage in the real world, and of course the degenerate who's activities are covered up by the old boy network.

These 'award' shows are a joke! It's about time those with any real talent distanced themselves from these fools, and the public wake up to the way they are being used and manipulated to pour vast amounts of money into undeserving pockets.

[ivy]

I don't think Ross's show is worth a nomination...maybe it was a few years ago when he was funnier, and not so bloated and smug. He was much better when he was younger and hungrier, but that's success, I guess. He will probably win, but in the scheme of things, so what?

[Ian]

maybe maybe not i personally dont like the bloke but its obvious lots do but he has to remember in this day and age you cannot go around offending anyone or the living and breathing police will have you or just the idiots in the euope parliment

[Johnty, Newcastle]

Johnathan Ross is little more than a foul mouthed, overpaid and oversexed person who should have been banned from the air long ago - some role model for the young listeners of today. Yet the BBC persist with him for fear of losing ratings - anyone else would have been despatched immediately after the Sachs affair. Of course he will still appeal to those who like to listen to his particullar form of filth - and there are plenty of them around judging by the content of some of the blogs. As for a Bafta nomination - it just shows what this country is coming to !

[John]

This self-opinionated idiot is a total waste of our licence money. He gives the impression of being a spoiled immature child, unable or too lazy to speak correctly. Get rid of him.

[Wossy]

Oh give over, he deserves the nomination. It is unlikely he will win. Having said that the wossgate affair was blown out of all proportion just like the new Moyles one. Further as a Spaniard I have always taken great exception to Sachs idiot portrayal in a stereotypical manner of my race. Ofcom should censor all further screenings of fawlty towers.

[Scotty]

All I would say is that all those people out there who praise Ross would think and act differently if it had been their family who had been slurred. His gutter humour should be where he should be - in the gutter. I do not pay my licence fee to listen to idiots like him making fun of others who, at the time do not have his power to hit back. I have no doubt he has skeletons in the cupboard but this matter is news and sells so the media choose not to "destroy" him and they very well could.

[whocares]

do people not realise that this is not important anymore and nor should it have been anyway Sachsgate was blown all out of proportion only 40 people complained about. JR gets millions of viewers every Friday night. Vote Jonathon Ross

[pat baker]

So what's new! you don't need talent these days to get on, just a loud vulgar mouth. The off button is the best vote.

[GERONIMO]

THE ONLY AWARD THE MINDLESS MORON SHOULD RECEIVE IS THE ORDER OF THE BOOT !!
ABSOLUTELY DISGUSTING. TYPICAL BBC BIAS AND BAD JUDGEMENT

[Peter G]

Nothing shocks me when it comes to chat show hosts. The nearer the bone their comments or behaviour, the more they believe we love them. NO WAY ROSS. If up to me you would be in the line up for another job.

[Ross]

For crying out loud people....LET IT GO!
What is it with some folk who have nothing better to do than drag up the past to make themselves fell important? i really don't understand.

[Phil]

At one time I would have spent my Friday evening watching JR's show. Since the Sachs incident I've made up my mind to avoid completely. Can't say the quality of my life has been diminished or that I miss it at all. I like edgy humour but JR and RB behaved in a way which I found utterly repellent. Talented or not, they have a duty towards the public, who see them as role models. If I was DG they'd have both walked the plank. To now honour JR with a nomination is to tacitly condone his behaviour. The powers that be are running scared of a media backlash, and lack the moral fibre to make a stand for goodness and decency.

[Nikki]

No he doesn't deserve to be nominated, he is overrated, overpaid and good at verbal diarrhoea only.

[Margot]

Jonathan has natural flair and talent and should be applauded - he's funny, witty and warm, which is more than can be said for his critics!

[Vincent]

I feel that J.Ross is over paid, over rated and over the top. People do make mistakes, however, what he did was totally childish and stupid. It is sad that this appears to be the type of humour that gets the "awards". What does that say about certain section of the British public. This is sending out the wrong message to young people - ie, be arrogant, be rude, be self centred, and get rewarded. Whatever happened to honour, dignity,and responsibility.

[Nathan]

oh my god! he is deserving of this award. They weren't in the wrong, the person who allowed it on air was if it is distasteful. They were doing a show which they and many others (including me) found funny and that is their job isn't it? if these things offend you don't listen to it. hurrah for JR and RB!

[Lexx]

Dang it, I was just about to post a heartfelt rant when I realised doesitmatter has put it literally almost word for word. Spooky...

Lol the only thing I would add is- Ross is a comedian. not all comedy is to all tastes, and sometimes it can go too far, but this doesn't change the fact that his show is, generally, funny, witty and actually quite interesting. Just because he made one joke that wasn't funny, he should be hung drawn quartered and never be seen in the public eye again? No. Sachs, as both a comedian and a man with an ounce of sense about him, understands this. Why don't most other people?

[Stuart Rattner]

JR should certainly not have been nominated and he got off lightly at the time. His career should have been finished. More to the point is the harm that this does to BAFTA's creditability. Does no one have the sense to understand what harm gratuitous insensibility does to the recipient. That is not changed by it now being a few months down the line.

[P. Drew-Wills]

It should not surprise any of us that the consumer of our Licence Fee appears to endorse the type of performer who displays the moral fibre and behaviour of an alley cat. The whole permissive and sick attitude which engenders such a disregard for common decency and clean humour should be rooted out at its rotten core in the BBC to avoid further insults to the normal viewing public.

[Ruth]

I think Jonathon Ross stopped being funny a very long time ago...he's way too full of himself and thinks lude humour and derrogatory remarks are clever. They're not. He was funny once...but his head got stuck too far up his own backside!

[doesitmatter?]

Why are people still complaining about this?

It was just a joke that wemt to far, everyone in their life have started a harmless joke which got taken the wrong way by someone.

just because he is a celebrity doesnt mean he isnt allowed to make the same mistakes as we do.

[Caroline]

Oh for goodness sake. It was a stupid mistake made on a radio programme listened to by not many people and blown out of all proportion. It is over, done and finished with! Whatever people think about him, Jonathan Ross gets the TV ratings and I for one enjoy the saturday morning show. It was very dull without him for a few months.

[gad]

Just goes to show how dumb these people think we are. A guy grabs hold of his guests breast and asks another if he masturbates over Mrs Thatcher and he gets nominated for an award. It's time we, Joe Public showed our power and just switched him off - then lets see how many awards he gets.

[The Griff]

Surprised? Nope. It seems salabitities like Woss can get away with anything they like, protected and supported by the other luvvies and financed out of our money. Do we have a say> Er....no.

It's about time people like Ross lived in the real world and were not just slapped on the wrist for doing what he did but treated like you and I would have been.

Which would probably have us on a criminal charhe or even as ASBO.

I detest all of them - from that pontificating St. Bono to Woss, who isn't even funny but ignorant and insensitive.

[Kate]

Are people seriously still going on about this??Get over it! Noone complained when it was aired, only when the media sensationalised it did people complain! The granddaughter milking her 15 minutes didn't help either. Jonathan Ross is brilliant.

[martin]

Jonathan Ross should get an award for his talent,he is a great entertainer,i am one of his dustmen and not only is he a great entertainer but he is a great person too, good luck to him.

[MC]

Regardless of whether the Sachs family comment or not, the issue is the behaviour of the individual concerned - Mr JR. Being 'talented' (I use the word loosely) does not give anyone the right to behave irresponsibly towards others - awarding a BAFTA sends a clear message that celebrities can....and get away with it. He committed the 'crime' but certainly hasn't done the time!

[rachel young]

disgusting he should have been sacked along time ago hes far to big for his boots

[H. Chadwick]

Being any sort of personality in today's world also brings with it some sense of responsibility. Jonathan Ross is not to everyones taste but is obviously popular with some, which is fair enough. However, he is in his private life a family man, as well as being a T.V. personality in his career, and his behaviour was not that of a responsible adult in the Andrew Sachs case, nor always during his T.V. broadcasts.

[Malcolm]

Please tell me you were joking when you described Jonathon Ross as "a rare natural British talent"! I have heard better and funnier entertainment from young fellows travelling on the train to and from work. Ross may well appeal to a certain type of audience, but I would suggest that audience is, thank heavens, NOT representative of the British people generally.
To nominate ANY entertainer for an award a few months after his being suspended for breeching broadcasting regulations and standards is unbelievable.

[Graeme]

What happened on 'that' radio show, is completely independent of his Friday night television programme. You can be brilliant at one thing whilst having stuffed up elsewhere in your day to day life. The fact that Jonathan Ross is in the public eye with both is irrelevant.

[.]

LOL get a life for God sakes. Johnathon Ross is a legend, he deserves to be nominated No-one even cares about MR Sachs grandaughers opinion, who is she anyway???

[Aaron]

WOOOOOO JONATHON ROSS! WOOP WOOP

[pogogogo]

Given that Mr Sachs is not speaking to the Grand daughter involved in the whole sorry saga, I am inclined to disregard anything the "National treasure" or his wife have to say on the matter.
Except this "Get over yourselves!"

[Denise]

I think it's disgraceful that the low life, that is Jonathon Ross, should even have been given airtime again, let alone nominations for awards. What message is this telling us all, that it is ok to be a cruel, arrogant and untalented? Why should we get over it? The man has not decency.

[getoverit]

Thank goodness Andrew Sachs has some sense. Of course JR deserves to be nonimated he's a rare natural British talent. There are not many of those about! Get over it people.

[RS]

a disgrace... should have been booted off for good..