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Ross memoir materialises

25.01.08 Alison Flood

Transworld has lined up BBC TV presenter Jonathan Ross' autobiography for this Christmas, eight years after the book was originally acquired.

The as-yet-untitled memoir, due in October 2008 as a Bantam hardback, will be one of the biggest books Transworld has ever published, according to m.d. Larry Finlay. "It's filled with his trademark self-deprecating humour," he said. "He's writing it himself and it's filled with wicked story after story about his growing up in the 1970s, his most embarrassing fashion faux pas, his relationship with his family—and sex."

Finlay originally bought UK and Commonwealth rights in the memoir in 2000 from Addison Cresswell at Off the Kerb Productions for a "nice but not huge" amount. "He signed the contract, we were waiting for it to happen—and then his career took off," Finlay said. "He just didn’t have time to write it."

Jonathan Ross recently became the BBC's highest paid presenter, with a reported salary of around £6m a year, for shows including "Friday Night with Jonathan Ross".

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