Gloria Hunniford has admitted that she is anything but a fan of Jonathan Ross’s interviewing technique
She criticised the fact that Jonathan Ross doesn’t learn enough about his guests like Parkinson did and he using the show as a vehicle for his own sense of humor.
“I do get a bit annoyed with some of the new chat shows.
Take Jonathan Ross. I like his show but he uses his guests as a tool for his own humour, whereas Parky would try to learn about them.
That’s the type of interview I like best. If you have a major Hollywood star as a guest, you want to hear about them rather than just talking about sex all the time.”
This opinion of modern chat shows is shared by Parkinson saying that shows like Jonathan Ross and Graham Norton are nothing more than “Comedy shows”. He even claimed that retiring from his own TV chat show meant “the end for polite conversation” - Very modest Parky!