Friday Night With Jonathan Ross

Jonathan Ross blames 'sheer volume of negative press'

Jonathan Ross has revealed that the main reason he left the BBC earlier this year was because of the 'sheer volume of negative press' he was attracting to the broadcaster.

Stage one of 'Getting over Jonathan'

And so it starts, our first Friday without Wossy. Here is some of his best interviews and moments, and a look at what happens now...

TV ratings: More than 5m wish Jonathan Ross goodbye

The final Friday Night With Jonathan Ross easily won its slot, with 5.2m to Big Brother's 2.3m.

Fans fume as guests and staff snap up farewell seats

Jonathan Ross fans have launched a furious attack on the BBC after they were refused entry to the recording of his final show, despite holding tickets.

Jonathan Ross bids farewell to the BBC

David Beckham is among the guests as controversial chatshow host bows out with final show.

Jonathan Ross: 2001 - 2010

The media world and a legion of adoring fans were last night mourning the loss of former chat show host and Radio 2 DJ Jonathan Ross. Ross was 49-years-old and is survived by Graham Norton.

An insider review of his last big BBC show

Boyd Hilton was in the audience for the last, emotional Friday Night with Jonathan Ross - and explains how surprises from Roxy Music and David Beckham unfolded.

For all his lapses in taste, it's hard to see a logical successor to Jonathan Ross as the BBC's flagship chat lord. Pally but vaguely presidential (the staggering volume of money that he earns must help here), he meets successful people on pretty even terms - and it's this general absence of forelock-tugging that's probably the key to his success. Tonight's show marks his parting of the ways with the BBC and sees the host meeting some fittingly high-profile names: David Beckham, Jackie Chan, Mickey Rourke, with music from his glam faves, Roxy Music.

It's the end of an era and not a moment too soon for many. Tonight, Jonathan Ross's rule as the BBC's most generously remunerated presenter comes to a close when he presents the last ever edition of his chat show. Once one of the sharpest hosts on television, Ross was brought low by his own failure to engage his brain before his mouth. Since "Sachsgate", a chastened Ross has been a shadow of his formerly audacious self and ratings for Friday Night have fallen by a million from their pre-scandal days. In what is bound to be a muted send-off, he's booked David Beckham and martial arts star Jackie Chan for chat and ageing rockers Roxy Music, headed by singer Bryan Ferry, for tunes.

So this is it. The end. The final curtain. The last ever Friday Night with Jonathan Ross after nearly ten years on BBC1. Ross was always an acquired taste; his blokey, jokey style was too smut-centric for some, while others thought him edgy and funny. None of that matters now, of course. Ross was all too willing to assist in the implosion of his BBC career when he and Russell Brand Went Too Far and left mucky messages on a blameless Andrew Sachs's answering machine during Brand's Radio 2 show. The reaction was ridiculously overblown - the sky didn't fall in - but it was the kind of national convulsion that could end only, eventually, with Ross's departure. Tonight's final guests are David Beckham, Jackie Chan, Mickey Rourke and Roxy Music.