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Home > Entertainment > Jonathan Ross says George Michael interview won’t happen yet January 21st, 2011 by Lisa McGarry. No comments A few months ago rumours were circulating that Jonathan Ross had managed to convince George Michael to give him a tell all interview. Simon Cowell was masterminding the whole thing for primetime TV and the show would go out on ITV1 and be similar to the format of Piers Morgan’s Life Stories. However the show never happened, reportedly because Cowell thought many of George’s revelations would be too graphic and hard hitting for the usual X Factor watching audience. But Ross has since revealed that he did start preliminary chats with the troubled star, who recently spent four weeks in prison after admitting driving under the influence of drugs. When asked about how the ‘Careless Whisper’ singer is doing now, Jonathan told The Sun’s Buzz magazine: “I’ve been to see him since he was released…and he’s fine. We were actually talking about doing a TV inter...

Addressing the failure of Dancing with the Stars spin-off Skating with the Stars, ABC’s entertainment president threatened/teased us by calling its premiere season its “first season,” as if ABC might actually attempt a second. Earlier this week, Paul Lee told TV critics that he thinks the show failed because “we were probably too similar,” and added, “maybe we put them too close together, or we made something whose DNA was really too close together even though the brief before going in there was, ‘Hey, we have this fabulous, culturally defining show. We’d love to extend it.’” He said that it premiered so close to Dancing with the Stars that the comparisons hurt Skating with the Stars. “You were comparing a show at the height of its power, with a fabulous cast, with the first season of a show that hadn’t yet gotten that level of casting and that level of self-confidence, and that was a difficult comparison,” he said. View the original article here