Jonathan Ross has rejected suggestions that he and his wife Jane Goldman were behind their daughter Honey’s diet. The 63-year-old broadcaster clarified the family’s role in an interview with The Times’ Relative Values column.
In 2020, Honey Ross, now 27, appeared on Loose Women and criticised the diets her parents suggested when she was a teenager. She described them as “insanely toxic” and advised parents to keep such talk away from children.
Ross explained that Honey had come to them with body issues and a desire to diet. “Crucially, though, the minute that Honey said she wanted to stop the diet, we said, ‘Great!’” he said. He insisted they were not instigators but were “taking cues” from their daughter.
The comedian praised Honey, now a writer and body-positive campaigner, and said she sometimes corrects him. “I have f***ed up countless times in public. But all you can do is apologise, learn from it and be a better person,” he said.
