the guests on this week's Jonathan Ross Show include actor Patrick Dempsey, comedian and Brits host Jack Whitehall, and Self Esteem, real name singer-songwriter Rebecca Lucy Taylor.
Jack Whitehall has just announced a massive tour entitled Bad Influence. Tickets have just gone on sale. Details and links here.
The tour will be taking in vemues including arenas in places ranging from Newcastle, Manchester, Liverpool and Edinburgh to Glasgow, Swansea, Nottingham, Plymouth, Birmingham, Cardiff, Brighton and London.
Fans will have to wait until next year though - the tour currently starts on January , running until February 7.
Whitehall talks on the show about his upcoming wedding to Roxy Horner later this year. He says: 'I'm very excited - it's going to be great. It's the first time our families are ever coming together. I've met her family, but my family have not met her family. My family, and it will come as no surprise to you, are a bunch of gilet wearing chinless toffs and her family are proper cockney, all West Ham fans, proper salt of the earth.'
Jack added a reference to gellow guest on the TV show Danny Dyer: 'Her uncle Gary makes Danny look like Jacob Rees-Mogg. It's going to be a mash-up of Downton Abbey and EastEnders.'
Whitehall has recently been in straight acting mode, appearing as the bad guy in Prime Video’s Malice. His next gig, however, is on more familiar territory, hosting the Brit Awards, having fronted the ceremony from 2018–21, returned in February 2025.
Bad Influence promises outrageous stories and moments that flirt with going just a little too far… When he annihnced the tour Jack Whitehall said: “I’m so excited to be heading back out on tour in 2027! Toddlers, planning a wedding - it’s been a busy few years for me, life-wise, so I think it’s high time I got back onstage and vented to my fans. I can’t wait to hit the road again.”
His most recent screen work also includes leading the PEACOCK comedy series THE BURBS, which launched in February 2026.
It's an interesting time for chat shows as next month Claudia Winkleman joins the fray with her own show made by the makers of Graham Norton's show. Though according to an interview in the Guardian in 2010 Ross doesn't consider his shows to be an interview show. In a recently article in the Guardian he is quoted as saying in 2010: “My talkshow is not an interview show as such, which is why I’m always bemused when critics say the interview wasn’t very good. And I think, but I’m not doing an interview! What I’m trying to do is make a comedy show. And that, trust me, is a fuck of a lot harder.”
The Jonathan Ross Show, Saturday, February 21, 9.25pm, ITV1.
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