It's not up to us to give him another chance - it's up to him to satisfy all of us that he deserves that chance. And his twitter stream does not suggest that is the case. He has hosted events such as the Empire Awards (and made a disaster, I am told, of one of the pop awards, but I don't follow pop music nowadays.) In Zander's phrase, there is nothing more 'blokey' than the Empire Awards, unless it is the SFX awards.
Then there's the fact that his wife -- a Hugo winning screenwriter - is in fact better qualified from an SF point of view to host the Hugos. No one at the time seems to have considered asking her or, even, and this might have diffused the problem, asking them to do it as a team, though the announcement used her name as if that somehow made Ross more qualified.
If Jeremy Clarkson were interested in SF, would you think it was okay to ask him to host the awards? It's on the same level. In fact, we know Clarkson can moderate his language, while I am not so sure about Ross.
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Then there's the fact that his wife -- a Hugo winning screenwriter - is in fact better qualified from an SF point of view to host the Hugos. No one at the time seems to have considered asking her or, even, and this might have diffused the problem, asking them to do it as a team, though the announcement used her name as if that somehow made Ross more qualified.
If Jeremy Clarkson were interested in SF, would you think it was okay to ask him to host the awards? It's on the same level. In fact, we know Clarkson can moderate his language, while I am not so sure about Ross.