Wossy: 'My wife pleads with me to be in her films'

Jonathan Ross has joked that his screenwriter wife Jane Goldman 'begs and pleads' for him to star in her films. But the chat show host and funnyman said despite The Woman In Black writer Jane Goldman's requests, he is just too busy with his TV work. "She's always asking me. She'll write these parts, these young romantic leads, these Hugh Grant types, and she begs and pleads and I have to let her down. I'm sorry, because TV's gain is the film world's loss," he teased. "I have been in a few movies - I was in the Spice World movie and also if you look very closely I'm an extra in a film called The Rise And Fall Of Idi Amin. I play an Israeli soldier - you can see me if you look hard enough." Jonathan said he was 'so proud' of Jane, who also has writing credits on X-Men: First Class, The Debt and Kick-Ass. "I'm so excited to see her success and it has nothing to do with me. It's completely her hard work and dedication. She's one of the most sought-after screenwriters in the business so it's tremendously exciting," he added.

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix.

An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.