#motherwell

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Motherwell, Scotland

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Robert Motherwell - Beside the Sea No. 18, 1962. Oil on paper

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Happy Birthday Scottish TV Presenter and actor Ross King.

Born as Derek Ross King in Motherwell on February 21st 1962 and it didn’t take him long to make his first appearance on stage four years later aged 4!

Ross started his presenting at the age of just 17 at Radio Clyde, presenting such programmes as the Saturday morning flagship Top 30 countdown show named King’s Clyde Countdown and The Lunchtime Show. He made his television debut two years later when he was chosen from 3,600 hopefuls to host ITV’s Young Krypton in 1988.

Since then he has carved himself a career on both sides of the Atlantic, from 1993 to 2010, King was the LA correspondent on GMTV.[2] From September 2010 onwards, he is the LA correspondent for GMTV’s replacement shows Daybreak and Lorraine. When Daybreak was replaced by Good Morning Britain in 2014, King continued his role as LA correspondent. After moving to Los Angeles in 2000, he secured roles in a film with Steven Seagal and in the 2004 release The Day After Tomorrow before entering a reality TV competition run by local television station KTLA to find a new weather presenter. There were 5000 entrants to the competition, but King won and was offered a five-year contract. However, King did not want to commit to being a weather presenter for that length of time and agreed to present the weather for a year before becoming KTLA’s entertainment anchor. During his 5 years there he won four News Emmys and a Golden Mic Award.

So far Ross has hosted around 30 TV series.

In 2015, King’s debut novel Taking Hollywood, published by Pan Macmillan, became a best seller, reaching #4 on the Amazon Best Seller’s chart. He co-wrote the novel with Shari Low under the combined name “Shari King”. The sequel Breaking Hollywood was released in 2015.

As well as all that King has also found time to appear in Theatre, he played Frank n Furter in The Rocky Horror Show and starred in and hosted Night of the Stars at London’s world-famous Palladium Theatre. He also created the role of Wallace in the musical Summer Holiday from the world premiere in Blackpool through the national tour to London’s Apollo Theatre. Other theatre includes lead roles in Charley’s Aunt, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Butterfly Children and Guys and Dolls.

In August 2025, King was announced as a contestant on the twenty-third series of Strictly Come Dancing.He was paired with Jowita Przystał. They were the second couple to be eliminated from the competition in the third week, placing 14th, he didn't get his wish that he would get to see the Slosh in the competition!

King has supported a number of charities and helped host The STV Children’s Appeal with his pal Lorraine Kelly.

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Nqabara Street, Motherwell, Eastern Cape, South Africa.

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Always lovely to hear from you friend!

I've been working on a piece about Graeme currently so here's an answer for him.

A small fact about them: He takes his tea milky with one sugar. Tetley, if you have it.

And a song - maybe the most Graeme track, albeit from an outside point of view, isn't even on his main playlist, but it's this one: "how do you sleep?" by LCD Soundsystem.

LCD Soundsystem - how do you sleep?

Listen to how do you sleep? on TIDAL

I must admit I miss the laughter, but not so much you.

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I get my food delivered and my books sent to my door

But I don't talk to people anymore

I miss everyone I've never met