AMANDA PLATELL: After the appalling thing Jonathan Ross said to ME, why I refuse to believe that he was 'genuinely unaware' of what Russell Brand and David Walliams were up to in the sordid Noughties

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I had an encounter with him at a pre-Christmas event on Hampstead Heath near to where I lived back in 2021.

Published: 19:40 GMT, 11 November 2026 | Updated: 20:33 GMT, 11 November 2026

Amid all the lurid allegations that David Walliams had for years groomed and abused young women, are we really expected to believe that his former bestie Jonathan Ross knew nothing about the rumours? Nor anything about the way Russell Brand treated the unfortunate women who crossed his path?

After the devastating claims that Walliams had been preying on teenage women and abusing his position of power as far back as 2003 – claims that the former Little Britain star vehemently denies – Ross declared: ‘I am as horrified by the revelations about David Walliams and the crimes of Russell Brand as the rest of the nation.

‘There was a time in my life when I was once on friendly terms with both men and during that period I was genuinely unaware of their conduct.’ He added: ‘My thoughts are with the many, many women who have bravely come forward.’

I confess that ‘Wossy’ and I have history. I have ‘skin in the game’, as they say.

I had an encounter with him at a pre-Christmas event on Hampstead Heath near to where I lived back in 2021.

Jonathan Ross said he was 'horrified' by the revelations about David Walliams, who he met in the early 2000s

Ross with Russell Brand, who was jailed this week for more than ten years after being convicted of rape and sexual assault

Ross was with his wife Jane Goldman and their daughter Honey when he saw me approaching and snarled in my face with barely disguised disgust: ‘They don’t let dogs in here, Amanda.'

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