Ross King

Ross King may refer to:

Ross King (Australian rules footballer)

Ross King (born 11 June 1943) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

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Ross King (presenter)

Derek Ross King, better known as Ross King (born 20 February 1962) is a British television presenter, actor and writer, best known for being LA Correspondent for ITV Breakfast programmes Lorraine and Good Morning Britain.

Ross formerly presented shows on Radio Clyde from America and various local LA shows. He is the automated telephone voice of American Express in the UK.

Life

King made his first stage appearance in 1966 at the age of five. He went on to appear on Radio Clyde aged 17 and made his television debut two years later. He was chosen to present Young Krypton, a youth version of The Krypton Factor, from over 3600 applicants. He went on to present numerous other television shows, including The 8:15 from Manchester and Pebble Mill.

From 1993 to 2010, King was the LA correspondent on GMTV. From September 2010 onwards, he is the LA correspondent for GMTV's replacement shows Daybreak and Lorraine. When Daybreak was replaced by Good Morning Britain in 2014, King continued his role as LA correspondent. After moving to Los Angeles in 2002, he secured roles in a film with Steven Seagal and in the 2004 release The Day After Tomorrow before entering a reality TV competition run by local television station KTLA to find a new weather presenter. There were 5000 entrants to the competition, but King won and was offered a five-year contract. However, King did not want to commit to being a weather presenter for that length of time and struck a deal to present the weather for a year before becoming KTLA's entertainment anchor.

Alice Ross-King

Alice Ross-King (5 August 1887 – 19 August 1968) was an Australian civilian and military nurse who took part in both World Wars and is Australia's most decorated woman. During the First World War she served in hospitals in Egypt and France and was one of only seven Australian nurses decorated for gallantry. In the Second World War she held a senior post within the Australian Army Medical Women's Service. In 1949 she was awarded the Florence Nightingale Medal, the highest award made by the International Committee of the Red Cross.

Early life

Ross-King was born in Ballarat, Victoria Her parents; Archibald Ross King and Henrietta King (née Ward) named her Alys Ross King. The family moved to Perth but her father and two brothers drowned in an accident and Henrietta King moved, with Alys, to Melbourne.

Nursing training was undertaken at The Alfred Hospital in Melbourne and by 1914 Ross-King was a qualified theatre sister.

First World War

Shortly after the outbreak of the war Ross-King enlisted in the Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS) and it was at this time that she changed her surname from Ross King to the hyphenated Ross-King to distinguish her from another AANS nurse called Alice King as well as simplify the spelling of her forename to the more common spelling of Alice.