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Scenes from life: anecdotal, wicked and witty. This is 'Wossy' in his own words and at his best.Irreverent, tangental, witty and outrageous, Jonathan Ross is our best-known television personality for good reason and his take on growing up, and the world around him, is laugh-out-loud funny. With stories that range from discovering B-movies to fashion, from diets to childhood sweetshops, favourite presents and from sex to pets (and back to sex) he explores everyday life with all his customary energy, lasciviousness, self-deprecatory humour and random meandering, revealing that in short trousers he was as irrepressibly exuberent as he is now in those suits...
First publish date: 1998
Authors: Jonathan Ross
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