Nick Ross Biography
Nick Ross is a British radio and television personality. During the 1980s and 1990s, he was one of the most visible British broadcasters, but he is best known for hosting the BBC Television show Crimewatch, which he left in 2007 after 23 years. He has since filmed a series for BBC One called The Truth About Crime and documentaries for BBC Radio 4.
How old is Nick Ross? – Age
He is 76 years old as of 7 August 2023. He was born in 1947 in Hampstead, London, United Kingdom. His real name is Nicholas David Ross.
Nick Ross Family – Education
His German Jewish father, Hans Rosenbluth, escaped Germany in 1933, shortly after the Nazis took power. Rosenbluth was interned as a ‘enemy alien’ in 1940 and deported from England to Australia on the HMT Dunera. When he was allowed to return, Rosenbluth changed his name to John Caryl Ross and enlisted in the British Army’s Pioneer Corps, rising to the rank of officer in 1945. His paternal grandpa was Pinchas Rosen (born Felix Rosenblüth), Israel’s three-time justice minister.
Ross attended Wallington County Grammar School and subsequently studied psychology at Queen’s University Belfast. He earned a BA (Hons), later became a Doctor of the University (honoris causa), and served as the Student Union’s deputy president and a leader in the student civil rights movement in 1968 and 1969. He began his media career by covering the conflict in Belfast for BBC Northern Ireland.
Nick Ross Wife
Sarah Caplin, his wife and co-founder of ChildLine, was the BBC’s Deputy Secretary and a top executive at ITV, the British commercial television broadcaster. The couple have three sons: Sam Ross, Adam Ross, and Jack Ross.
Nick Ross Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of £23 million.
Nick Ross Crimewatch
Crimewatch (based on a German prototype) premiered in 1984, making him a household figure in the United Kingdom, and his signature sign-off, “Don’t have nightmares, do sleep well,” became a well-known catchphrase. In 1989, he was asked to host BBC Radio 4’s Tuesday morning phone-in, which was renamed Call Nick Ross. He resigned in 1997, but got an award for best radio presenter of the year. During the 1991 Gulf War, he volunteered as a presenter on BBC Radio 4 News FM.
Jill Dando, his Crimewatch co-presenter, was murdered in 1999, prompting Ross to launch a campaign to honour her, which culminated in the formation of the Jill Dando Institute of Crime Science at University College London.
Nick Ross Career
He started working parttime for the BBC in Northern Ireland while still an understudy and covered the brutality as the Difficulties became intense. He got back to London and introduced English radio projects like Radio 4’s The World at One, PM and The World This evening, and moved to television in 1979 as a columnist for Man Alive on BBC Two. He made a few narratives in a short stretch as a chief and maker. “The Greatest Pandemic of Our Times” was a questioning on street mishaps which was made for Man Alive however moved to BBC1.
It was subsequently portrayed as a transmission that “would change street security,” and as per another pundit, by reexamining the entire idea of street wellbeing Ross’ crusading changed public mentalities and public strategy so much that, “in critical outcome English death paces of individuals under 50 are among the least on the planet.” Ross likewise delivered and coordinated two projects on illicit drug use, The Fix and The Fix, which followed a fiend called Gina. He introduced a regulation series Out of Court in this period as well as huge scope studio discusses.
He was in the introducing group of a brief afternoon news program An hour which started in 1983, and was planned as a swap for Cross country, yet demonstrated a clumsy configuration. In a similar period he was an organizer moderator of the BBC’s Morning meal Time on BBC 1, the principal ordinary such program in this timeslot, from its send off in mid 1983, with Candid Limb and Selina Scott, as well as sending off Guard dog as an early evening independent buyer series.
He introduced Seven days in Legislative issues on Channel 4, then moved to cover BBC Two’s live transmissions of parliament in Westminster with Scratch Ross. At one phase during the 1990s he was frequently doing three standard live projects a day, for example, Call Scratch Ross, Westminster with Scratch Ross and Crimewatch. He was utilized in an assortment of BBC designs including talk shows, travel projects and discussions, yet was most at home in live studios, frequently coordinating discussions.
He endured a year making a significant BBC One series Reality with regards to Wrongdoing, which broadcasted in mid-2009 and made sense of the fall in crime percentages and how culpable can be diminished further. The show was portrayed by The Times as an “exceptional… rational, savvy and compellingly contended narrative series.”
He has since been making other Television programs, for example, Insider facts of the Wrongdoing Exhibition hall and science programs for BBC Radio 4 including an acclaimed reevaluation of the Chernobyl calamity Aftermath: the Tradition of Chernobyl. His composed news-casting has incorporated a reconsideration of the Air France Flight 447 air crash that incited contention on the two sides of the Atlantic.
He made a visitor appearance on Are You Being Served?, playing himself in the last episode “The Pop Star”, broadcast in April 1985, and has showed up on different shows, including Have I Got News for You. Ross was designated Leader of the Request for the English Realm (CBE) in the 2021 Birthday Respects for administrations to broadcasting, good cause and wrongdoing anticipation.
Nick Ross Movies and TV Shows
♦ 2011 – Fallout: The Legacy of Chernobyl
♦ 2010 – Crime Hotspots
♦ 2009 – The Truth About Crime
♦ 2008 – Secrets of the Crime Museum
♦ 2004 – The Archive Hour
♦ 2002 – Jimmy Young Show
♦ 2002 – Cracking Crime Day
♦ 2000 – The Syndicate
♦ 2000 – Destination Nightmares
♦ 1999–2006 – Crimewatch Solved
♦ 1999–2000 – The Search
♦ 1999 – We Shall Overcome
♦ 1999 – Nick Ross
♦ 1999 – Trail of Guilt
♦ 1999 – Storm Alert
♦ 1998 – Newsnight
♦ 1997–2005 – The Commission
♦ 1997 – Party Conferences
♦ 1997 – Election Campaign
♦ 1994–1997 – Westminster with Nick Ross
♦ 1992–2002 – So You Think You Know How To Drive
♦ 1992–1994 – Crime Limited
♦ 1988–2000 – Crimewatch File
♦ 1986–1997 – Call Nick Ross
