Jonathan Ross quits the BBC
January 8, 2010
Jonathan Ross has announced that he will part company with the BBC when his contract comes to an end in the summer. Ross has been with the BBC for thirteen years but his reported £18 million salary and the furore over a prank phone call he and comedian Russell Brand put into actor Andrew Sachs have caused some controversy over the past year. In a statement Mr. Ross said that he was extremely proud of the shows he had made for the BBC but had decided that he would not be renegotiating his contract after July. He also claimed that his decision not to renegotiate was nothing to do with money. He said that he signed his current contract for less than other more lucrative offers he was getting at the time. He went on to point out that he would happily have stayed at the BBC under any terms they wished to offer because at the time that was where he wanted to be.
He said that he was looking forward to the next few months continuing to work out his contract and has said that he intends to continue hosting the BAFTA Awards and working on other BBC specials such as Comic Relief.
Director of BBC Vision, Jana Bennett said that she fully understood why Mr. Ross had decided to step down because it had been a very difficult year for him. Creative Director at the BBC, Alan Yentob said that so far there had been no decisions made on whom would be replacing Mr. Ross on his various shows.
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