Martha Ross is a British

United Kingdom

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 actress and radio

Radio

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 presenter, and mother of television presenters Jonathan

Jonathan Ross (television presenter)

Jonathan Stephen Ross, OBE is an English television and radio presenter, best known for presenting the BBC One chat show Friday Night with Jonathan Ross from 2001 until he left the BBC in 2010. Ross began hosting a new chat show on ITV1 starting 3 September 2011...

 and Paul Ross

Paul Ross

Paul Ross is an English television and radio presenter, journalist, and media personality. He is the son of Martha Ross and the elder brother of Jonathan Ross.-Early life:...

. She also has three other sons called Simon

Simon Ross

Simon Ross is a British producer. He is the son of British actress and radio presenter Martha Ross, and brother of television presenters Jonathan and Paul Ross, and brother of Miles Ross....

, Miles and Adam, and a daughter named Liza, who works in the media.

Ross worked as an extra in EastEnders

EastEnders

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from its inception until November 2006, when her contract was terminated because she told her son Paul an EastEnders Christmas storyline, which he leaked on his LBC

LBC

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 radio show.

She has also appeared in Grange Hill

Grange Hill

Grange Hill is a British television drama series originally made by the BBC. The show began in 1978 on BBC1 and was one of the longest running programmes on British television...

, The Sean Hughes

Sean Hughes (comedian)

Sean Hughes is a British-Irish stand-up comedian, writer and actor.-Career:Hughes was born in London, but spent most of his youth in Firhouse, Dublin...

 Show, Space Virgins and Barrymore

Michael Barrymore

Michael Kieron Parker , better known by his stage name Michael Barrymore, is a British comedian who appeared as a presenter of game shows and light entertainment programmes on British television in the 1980s and 1990s. These included Strike It Lucky, My Kind of People, My Kind of Music and Kids Say...

, and hosts a current affairs show on Liberty Radio

Liberty Radio

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. Ross has written a weekly agony aunt column for Real People magazine.

She has appeared in many theatre

Theatre

Theatre is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music or dance...

roles, including The Last Game, Atlantis, The Firm's Big Night Out and Stained Glass.