Jonathan Ross: I won’t read Andrew Sachs book but he can come on my show to plug it

 
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6 March 2013
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Jonathan Ross has revealed that he will not be reading Andrew Sachs’s memoirs but will happily have the actor as a guest on his chat show to promote the book.

Sachs, 82, is expected to reveal his feelings about Ross and Russell Brand, who left prank messages on his telephone answering machine in 2008 with lurid references to his granddaughter Georgina Baillie.

Brand subsequently resigned from his Radio 2 show, which had featured the calls, and Ross was suspended by the BBC. The corporation apologised to Sachs, who played Spanish waiter Manuel in Fawlty Towers.

Ross, whose chat show is now on ITV, was a guest at the Bafta Game Awards at the Park Lane Hilton hotel last night.

He said: “I regret what I said, I regret that it was broadcast, I regret any upset it caused his family. If he wants to write about it in his memoirs then I would support that decision. If not then I would support that decision as well. I’m not even sure if I’m in it any more, from what I’ve been told. But if he wants me to come and interview him when it comes out, to say sorry, I will do that.”

Asked if his chat show would keep going as long as Michael Parkinson’s, Ross said: “I don’t know. I started it 25 years ago. The ITV show’s going strong and we’re just talking about renewing for a couple more years now, so by then I’d be 55. So then I might think about stopping… I know I only look about 30 but I am 52.”

Other guests at the awards included Russell Kane and Mathew Horne. Dishonoured was named best game.

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