The secret behind Jonathan Ross’ family’s weight loss as they show off their slimmed-down figures

Jonathan Ross’ wife Jane Goldman turned heads this week when she showed off her incredible weight loss on the red carpet. 

The screenwriter, 55, looked incredible in a boho-inspired brown dress and a leopard print shawl as she attended a premiere with her husband. 

Yet Jane isn’t the only member of the Ross family to have shown off a slimmed-down physique in recent years.  

Jonathan, 65, has also been candid about his weight loss journey, crediting a new diet with his new look. 

While the couple’s youngest child, Honey Kinney, 28, is a body confidence advocate who has been candid about the toxic diet culture that once consumed her. 

Now Daily Mail reveals what the trio have said about their weight loss journeys.  

Jonathan Ross

Jonathan has been open about his different approaches to shedding the pounds, having successfully slimmed down using various diets.

In recent years he’s gone vegan and teetotal along with wife Jane, in an effort to be more sustainable, claiming ‘I’ve eaten enough great food in my life.’

And he revealed that he successfully shed 14lbs in just four weeks after he switched to a liquid-only diet.

Speaking candidly about his lifestyle overhaul, Jonathan said: ‘I’ve been living off liquid food as I wanted to lose weight.

‘Now I just get up and have my chocolate milkshake – it’s easier. I’m old. I’ve eaten enough great food in my life.

‘When I gave up booze, I realised I’d had more than my fair share already. If I never eat another steak, it’s not a big deal. We’re trying to be sustainable.’

But he was quick to insist out that he is not necessarily an advocate for a vegan diet, admitting that even he has the odd craving.

He said: ‘You do miss stuff. I’ve eaten eggs once or twice but accidentally. It hasn’t changed me at all – I’m not a poster boy for a vegan diet.’

While he has also used both the Atkins and Keto diet plans in the past to manage his weight, previously losing nearly two stone on Keto.

On Alan Carr’s Chatty Man in 2015, he explained: ‘My wife wanted to go on an eating plan so you can actually maintain it, but also really enjoy food.’

Jonathan went on to explain how he looked to Reddit for weight loss tips, saying: ‘A lot of them were talking about a diet called Keto. 

‘It’s a bit like Atkins but more scientific. It’s mostly meat and fish, lots of egg and cheese. You have a lot of cauliflower.

‘There is a lot of work involved so I watch them working quite hard in the kitchen and eat everything they’ve made.

‘You can have a Nando’s but you can’t have any chips,’ he added. Jonathan went on to say although he is ‘eating loads of food’, he lost ‘like a stone and a half’.

Jane Goldman 

This week, Jane, 55, displayed a noticeably slimmed-down frame as she posed for a snap with Jonathan and their youngest daughter, which Honey shared to her Instagram.

The sweet family shot showed the trio tucking into some delicious looking Tanghulu at a Japanese market, with Jane showcasing her trim figure in a simple beige top and belted trousers.

The screenwriter and producer, 55, has been known to have tried her hand at several diets in the past, having encouraged Jonathon to join her.

It has been previously reported that Jane – who co-wrote blockbusters such as Stardust, Kick-Ass, X-Men: First Class and Kingsman: The Secret Service – lost around three stone on a version of the Atkins diet around 15 years ago.

But while wanting to stay healthy, she has insisted that she and her husband ‘love food’ and are firmly against society’s insistence on being thin.

She told an interviewer in 2008: ‘We have both had periods when we got absolutely huge because we love food. 

‘We are pretty relaxed about it and feel strongly about the negative pressure to be thin.’ 

While she previously told The Guardian in 2018, that her looks and style were influenced by her love of comics and sci-fi, after the interviewer said her bright red hair and voluptuous figure resembled that of a classic superhero.

Jane said: ‘I’ve always loved science fiction, fantasy, manga, comic books, so I guess to some degree those things influence my personal idea of what looks nice, which definitely isn’t everyone else’s.’

However, she insisted that she wasn’t bravely displaying her individualism, but rather stopping herself from being compared to the societal ideal.

She said: ‘It’s essentially saying, ‘I’ve opted out’; it’s saying ‘Please don’t judge me against society’s standards! I know I don’t measure up, I’ve opted out, I’m playing a different game.'” 

Jonathan previously professed that his wife of almost four decades has always been the only one for him.

‘Jane’s my ideal, whatever way she is,’ he once declared. ‘We’ve grown up together and I become more passionate about her as the years go by. For me, it’s only ever been Jane and it only ever will be.’

Honey Kinny

The youngest Ross child Honey has built a popular following online through her body confident snaps, after having a difficult journey with her weight over the years.

After facing vile trolling from people online and struggling with body confidence issues throughout her childhood, she has now embraced her curves.

The 28-year-old is now a body positive campaigner, and regularly shares stunning and sometimes, racy photos displaying her figure on social media.

She says women often tell her that thanks to her campaign for body positivity, they have worn a bikini for the first time, or felt at home in their bodies for the first time.

‘Fat is not a feeling,’ she says. ‘I don’t feel fat because I am fat; that’s who I am and I like how I look.

‘If all it takes for me to help someone is to post a nude picture, then I will. My parents are supportive of it, once they’d got their heads around it, and they are like: ‘We are really proud of you helping.’ ‘

Honey previously declared: ‘Here I stand as a size 18 woman who loves her body. I post photos of my bare bum cheeks on Instagram, gleefully expanding the sparse space of casual plus-size representation online. Simply existing joyfully is an act of protest.

‘I regret the time I wasted hating myself. I bought into the notion that my body was a work in progress, that all my problems would dissolve if I lost the couple of stone that kept my body from being societally acceptable. I had been sold a scam.’

She has been open about how her body image issues began, explaining it was obvious from her earliest youth that she was never going to be one of what she calls ‘the pixie women’ — the skinny A-listers who appeared on her father’s show.

When she was seven, she was diagnosed as severely dyslexic and sent to a new school to aid her literacy.

Honey began picking up a Starbucks cheese and Marmite panini to break up the misery of her ‘tearful’ commute across London.

She wrote: ‘I noticed a shift in the way people began to perceive me about three months into the new school.

‘Previously, adults had told seven-year-old me that I was so tall I could become a model — that ‘compliment’ soon dried up.

‘I started to notice other things, too: buttons pulling, soft little rolls on my stomach that shop mannequins seemed to lack. Even then, as a child, I knew the body I’d started to develop was not one celebrated by society.

‘My parents were raised, like everyone else, in a society where a rabid diet culture begets ingrained body issues.

‘So when they saw their funny, confident daughter retreating and transforming into a quiet and miserable girl, struggling to come to terms with her changing shape, they used the only tools that society had given them to try to help: diet and exercise.’

They tried to bribe Honey, aged nine, to exercise by giving her charms to hang on a bracelet. Paninis were banned — but she found that ‘demonising’ food only made her eat more.

By the time she was 12, Honey was a High Street size 14. Her parents suggested she tried Weight Watchers, and Jane even offered to go with her.

She recalls: ‘One night we order pizza, ready to watch Doctor Who, and I miserably nibble my allocated two slices while my thin, older siblings tuck in freely.

‘I see my mum’s heartbreak as she tells me to have another two slices because ‘they’re very small tonight’.’

At 14, full of loathing for her body, she asked her parents to give her a personal trainer for her birthday, and had sessions four times a week. She also kept an ‘obsessive food diary’.

At 17 she joined Jonathan and Jane on a ‘keto diet’, where carbohydrates are shunned to achieve fat loss.

But it’s at this point that she had what she calls an awakening, after noticing ‘photos of gorgeous, confident, stylish, fat women’ on social media.

She decided to change her mindset rather than her body — and try to change the way the world viewed her and people like her.

In 2020, Honey said that her parents had presented her with ‘absolutely toxic’ diets, after she struggled with body issues as a teen.

During an appearance on Loose Women, she said her mum and dad ‘tried to give her solutions to her problem’ which was to ‘lose weight’ and urged parents not to ‘shame’ their children.

Explaining her struggle to have a positive body image, she said: ‘From a young age, I felt I didn’t have any control over my image. 

‘I felt I didn’t have a place to carve out my own identity. I found Instagram and I was like, I can express myself and show people who I really am. It was a way for me to figure myself out better. 

She then continued: ‘I have parents who were raised in the same society as all of us. They saw me, a teenage girl coming home saying, I hate my body. 

‘They tried to give me solutions to a problem I brought to them, which was to lose weight. They presented me with diets and diets, as we know, don’t work and are absolutely toxic.

‘My advice to parents is keep that as far away from your children as possible, if you want them to have a good relationship with food and their bodies growing up do not shame them.’

But last year, Jonathan and Jane pushed back at the insinuation that they had tried to control Honey’s diet in a joint interview with the Times.

Jonathan insisted the couple had taken ‘our cues from Honey’ and that when their daughter had wanted to stop the diet, they had supported her decision.

He said: ‘Honey did struggle at school because we found out she was severely dyslexic. She also developed some body issues when she very young and we could see it was making her unhappy. 

‘She talked about getting fitter and going on a diet, which Jane and I tried to help her with. Crucially, though, the minute that Honey said she wanted to stop the diet, we said, “Great!” 

‘Some of the headlines have hinted that we were the instigators of the diet, but we took our cues from Honey. We loved her dearly and we wanted her to be happy.’

Meanwhile, Honey herself cleared up the claims about her parents’ response to her confidence issues in her teens, walking back her previous comments and praising her ‘wonderful’ father for helping her become ‘happy with my body’.

She said: ‘I’m not a parent, but know that it’s not easy. When I went through the phase of hating my body Mum and Dad were the first people I spoke to. Even when I turned into a feminist in my teens, Dad supported everything I did. “Yes, dear, I’ll sign up for your campaign.” 

‘You might ask, after all we’ve been through as a family, why I choose to put myself out there on Instagram: pictures of a size-18 girl in a bikini. Because at 27, I feel happy with my body.

‘Sure, I still have bad days, but Dad helped me see that I don’t have to listen to all the nastiness. He helped me understand that these things don’t matter. As a father he has been everything I’ve ever wanted. A wonderful man with a heart of gold.’