Joel Ross

Joel Ross started out in radio as a presenter on his hometown station Yorkshire Coast Radio in 1993, at the age of 16, presenting the evening show and Nothing But the 90's.

He left in late 1995 and went on to present various shows on Minster FM, A1FM, Sun City 103.4, TFM Radio and Metro Radio, as well as being a travel presenter for many stations in the North.

He joined Viking FM in 1996, starting on the nightshift. He worked his way up to the late show, off-air breakfast producer, evening show host and afternoon show presenter. He was then offered the chance to pair up with JK (a long-time colleague and socialising partner) on the breakfast show, which JK had hosted alone for the previous year.

Initially, the arrangement was just for Ross to earn some overtime from his afternoon shift by reading JK's travel reports; but instantly it became clear that the pair had a natural broadcasting rapport as well as great ability to communicate with the audience, and so Ross was relieved of his afternoon duties and elevated to the role of breakfast co-host. Together, they won two Gold Sony Radio Academy Awards for 'Breakfast Show Of The Year' and a Silver for 'Entertainment Show'.

This success led to the pair working together on many other projects in radio and television, until going their separate ways in 2013.

In 2011, Ross became the host of Wrestle Talk TV. Originally a YouTube-based show talking about the recent wrestling action as well as interviews with both WWE and TNA wrestlers. The show debuted on Challenge on 26 August 2012. Ross was fired in March 2014 for making comments on social media which WTTV deemed "unacceptable".[1]

Ross appeared as part of the Channel 4 Racing's Morning Line team on 7 April 2012.

In January 2013, Ross joined Heart West Midlands, presenting local weekend shows. He has also covered for Neil 'Roberto' Williams on the networked evening show and the weekday breakfast show in the West Midlands.[2] He joined Heart North West on 6 May 2014 as the station's breakfast show co-host, alongside Lorna Bancroft.[3]

He co-hosts The Sun's WrestleCast with journalist Simon 'LilsBoy' Rothstein, interviewing WWE and TNA wrestlers. In 2014, it won AudioWrestling.com's "Male Interview Of The Year" and "Editor's Choice Male Interview Of The Year".

In 2019, Heart nationalised their Breakfast show which brought an end to Joel and Lorna on Heart North West. Ross became the host of Rock FM's Breakfast Show with Gemma Cutting.