Jonathan Ross hurled six-word insult at me at party - it told me everything I need to know

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OPINION - CAROLE MALONE: To have one questionable friend is bad luck, to be mates with both Russell Brand AND David Walliams is extremely unfortunate

Jonathan Ross really is a gutless piece of work. Watching him scrabbling around this week desperately trying to distance himself from Russell Brand and David Walliams has been sick-making. He’s been telling anyone who’ll listen that he had no idea what either man was really like – despite moving in the same celebrity circles and being friends with both for decades. Hell, he even went to two of Brand’s weddings – to Katy Perry in 2010 and Laura Gallacher in 2017.

How could he not know what these men were like? Even people who didn’t know Brand knew what he was like – because he kept telling us. He told us he was a sex addict, that he loved f***ing. He even wrote a book about it. So if we all knew what he was, how come his very good friend Jonathan didn’t?

As for Walliams, why did Ross tell a vile joke at the British comedy awards in 2004 that talked about Walliams going home with 15-year-olds if he didn’t know what it alluded to? Does he always tell jokes he doesn’t understand? His defence was that he didn’t write the joke. No, but he was 43-years-old when he told it. He could have refused – not least because he’s a father of two daughters. But he didn’t.

And why would anyone bother telling, or writing, that joke if the rumours about Walliams’ penchant for young women wasn’t widely known? Ross says he thought it was a reference to the fact he’d publicly dated younger women. Yes, but publicly dating is different from “going home with”.

Let’s not forget while he’s scurrying around trying to distance himself from these two men how terribly pleased with himself he looked when he was around them. And no one’s forgotten Ross’s role in the disgusting Sachsgate scandal. It was HIM who screamed down the actor’s answerphone: “He f***ed your granddaughter.” It was HIM who egged Brand on.

What kind of man could say that to a 78-year-old grandfather who hadn’t been in the public eye for years but was catapulted back there thanks to those two cruel idiots?

But the “famous older men…

Sach…

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