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The Sun
23-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Sun
BBC quiz show renewed for FIFTH series with slew of celebrities poised to star
A HUGE BBC quiz show has been renewed for a fifth series with a slew of celebrities poised to star. The corporation has given the green light for the popular Saturday night quiz show. 6 6 6 Romesh Ranganathan, 47, is the current host of The Weakest Link after the show was revived in 2020. Anne Robinson, 80, famously hosted the hit general knowledge show from August 2000 for 12 years. Her contract ended in March 2012 before the beeb rebooted the show eight years later. Now bosses at the publicly funded corporation have given the go-ahead for yet another instalment. Pre-production is underway at BBC Studios Entertainment Productions which makes the show. The fifth series promises to have yet another star-studded lineup of celebrity contestants. Like the last edition, the new run of episodes is set to feature a number of themed episodes. Previous specials have included comedians, Gladiators, duos and Strictly Come Dancing personalities. On the show, the group will battle it out on the iconic quiz as they have to work as a team to build up a cash pot prize for charity. However, they have to get questions right to avoid getting voted as 'The Weakest Link' by their fellow contestants. Mel B takes swipe at Eamonn Holmes during feisty appearance on The Weakest Link At all costs, they want to avoid the walk of shame across the studio as they get eliminated. Only one player will secure the cash prize for their chosen charity and be crowned as The Strongest Link . This comes after the host opened up on his previous battles with mental health in a new interview with Runners World UK. "I just couldn't see the point in carrying on. I was super depressed. "Then I started to do suicide ideation, where you start to fantasise about it. "The best way I can describe it, when I thought about taking my own life, it felt like a weight was being lifted. " Mental health is something I'm still aware of, and it's been a battle for me. "I think once you come close to something like that, it's a bit like being an ex-smoker: you have to stay on top of it.' 6 6 6
Daily Mail
07-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Anne Robinson doubles down on vicious comments about The Weakest Link contestants' looks - just as Countdown feud with Rachel Riley kicks off AGAIN
Anne Robinson has doubled down on her famously vicious comments about The Weakest Link contestants' looks just days after her feud with Countdown star Rachel Riley kicked was reignited. The 80-year-old - who presented the popular BBC show between 2000 and 2012, and again in 2017 - became known for some of her harsh words aimed at those who appeared on the programme. Now, 25 years on from the first time she hosted The Weakest Link, she conceded that she probably wouldn't be able to get away with it anymore, but insisted that she was just vocalising widely held opinions. Speaking to the Metro, Anne said: 'On The Weakest Link, what I was saying on television was exactly what your mum and your dad and your grandparents were saying to each other… 'I was just saying it out loud to millions of people, and you can't say that now. 'I mean, I used to be able to say to someone who was overweight, 'What do you do when you're not eating?', and you can't do that anymore. 'It's just a different time, isn't it?' It comes after Rachel Riley took a brutal swipe at Anne. The TV presenter, 39, spoke out about her rumoured rift with the quiz show veteran, 80. After Anne recently admitted to telling Rachel to 'shut up' on the show's set, Rachel told The Sun: 'If Anne needs to mention me for publicity then good luck to her. 'I have the same opinion of her as most people do.' Rachel went on to reveal she doesn't 'pay any attention to what she says'. The presenter first joined Countdown back in 2009 at just 22 years old when she took over from Carol Vordman. Almost 16 years on, Rachel is the show's resident mathematician. Rachel's comments come after Anne opened up to the Telegraph last month about what really happened during her time hosting Countdown when the presenter quit the show after just a year back in 2022. Anne was rumoured to have been involved in a rift with the show's other presenters Rachel Riley and Susie Dent, but attempted to shut down such speculation. Speaking in an interview with the Telegraph, Anne denied a proper fall out between the pair as she explained: 'It's just a story. Rachel was a bit talkative when I was interviewing the contestants but once we shut her up it was fine.' Anne also spoke bluntly on her thoughts on woke culture as she admitted: 'I loathe the woke terrorists who are sucking the life blood out of the country.' Insisting that if she was still in comedy she would find a way around the 'woke restrictions', she added: 'Because if you're funny – properly funny – you can get away with a great deal, although there's not a lot of funny sharp women on TV anymore.' Taking a jibe at presenter Stacey Solomon, the star also shared her views on the calibre of TV shows currently on air. She added: 'I'm disappointed that by 9 O'clock, someone called Stacy [sic] is usually telling me how to tidy my wardrobe, I don't want to watch some semi famous person take me round the Scottish isles, there is a lot of TV that is c**p.' The Weakest Link star previously revealed she quit Countdown over a pay dispute and confessed she insisted on 'noisy' Susie Dent and Rachel Riley 's mics being switched off. She explained that despite being offered a pay rise, she did not want to join Channel 4 's payroll and so decided to walk away from her role as host. Of the rift with her co-stars Rachel and Susie she admitted that she had been annoyed by their time-keeping and noisiness. But she later said: 'They're both brilliant at what they do. I mean they really, really are. Channel 4 are incredibly lucky to have them. And there isn't a rift. 'It was me wanting everyone to be quiet in the studio. I like everyone turning up on time and quiet, quiet, quiet. So we did have to iron that out. But that's it.' Meanwhile, Rachel seemed to acknowledge the feud between herself and Anne a fter she said the presenter 'might make you cry.' Previously the maths whizz had said that Anne was 'not the cuddliest,' and after she left the show she admitted the atmosphere changed and became more fun once she was replaced by Colin Murray. Rachel said: 'It's very different. Each presenter has their own style, and you don't always gel with everybody that you work with. 'Well, you're not going to get a sympathetic shoulder to cry on from Anne, but she might make you cry.' The feud rumours were further fueled when Rachel took to Instagram to share a selfie smiling to the camera, while holding a glass of wine after Anne's departure was announced. 'Drinking a toast to the next chapter in Countdown history. I think you're going to like it,' she captioned the image. Later while appearing on Piers Morgan's Uncensored, Anne shared: 'Susie Dent is great, Rachel Riley is completely brilliant at the maths.'
Daily Mail
06-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
CHRISTOPHER STEVENS gives his verdict on You Be The Judge: Crime & Punishment
You Be The Judge: Crime & Punishment (Ch5) Hypocrisy is not a criminal offence. If it were, Britain's jails would be overflowing with self-righteous eco-activists who think they're better than everyone else. Just Stop Oil protester Morgan Trowland boasted smugly, on You Be The Judge: Crime & Punishment, how he'd closed the Dartford Bridge for 36 hours by scaling its cables and climbing into a hammock. Big-nosed and bony, the archetype of a ginger-bearded Leftie, Trowland ranted about his mission to save the world by blackmailing the government until it banned oil and gas extraction. Down below, traffic tailed back for miles, creating far more pollution than usual. Thousands missed hospital appointments, crucial meetings, exams, funerals and who knows what else. But as presenter Anne Robinson said, 'Mr Trowland plainly believed that he knew better. In short, to hell with everyone else.' His double standards were exposed when he tearfully explained how he was inspired to fight climate change during a trip to India. Here, he met people whose lives were affected by, 'extreme heat because the weather has been ruined, in part by British people on motorways'. And how did he get to India? On his pushbike, perhaps, or on foot? Or was it on a passenger jet burning tons of fossil fuel, I wonder? Anne's one-off show, part of a week of programmes on Channel 5 about the justice system, encouraged us to think about fair sentencing. Trowland served 14 months in prison for causing a public nuisance, which seems an ineffectual sentence. To salve his own conscience, he was willing to inflict financial losses on countless unlucky businesses and private individuals. The moral remedy would be for Trowland to repay as many of them as possible. Any property he owns should be sold, and a swathe of his income used to reimburse his victims. And to make sure he doesn't use the penalty as an excuse to sponge off the taxpayer, he should be barred from claiming benefits for ten years. Let's see if he's still as keen to pose and preen about 'saving the world' when it's his own money he's wasting. The other case studies in this gimmicky programme were rushed and depressing. Reconstructions of court hearings laid out the bare facts of three grim trials. In one, a teenager pleaded guilty to murdering his ex-girlfriend in her family home. In another, a thug on a drunken night out punched a stranger to death in an unprovoked attack. The third was a horrific story of death by dangerous driving. Panels of retired detectives, former judges and ex-prisoners gave their opinions on what the punishment should be. Members of the public who'd lost family members to crime also weighed in. In every instance, the killer's sentence was shorter than anyone expected. Unbelievably, the drunk who admitted manslaughter spent just nine months in prison. He even claimed he was suffering post-traumatic stress disorder — because he'd killed a man. Where's the justice?
Times
06-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Times
You Be the Judge review — Anne Robinson turns the law into a game show
Given her erstwhile incarnation as the nation's off-message headteacher, rudely insulting contestants on one of the country's most popular game shows, you can see why Anne Robinson was chosen to present You Be the Judge: Crime & Punishment (5), a recriminatory look at the prison sentencing system. You are the weakest link, M'Lud. Goodbye. It felt like a nifty idea. Reconstructions of the courtroom submissions made in four real-life cases before a final reveal of the actual sentences, all shown to four panels made up of the relatives of victims of other violent crimes, and three others composed of ex-judges, ex-police officers and, most colourful of all, a trio of Cockney ex-criminals. 'I'd have liked to have had that judge at a few of my
Scottish Sun
06-05-2025
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- Scottish Sun
Anne Robinson relationship history including when she dated Queen Camilla's ex-husband Andrew Parker Bowles
Click to share on X/Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) 6 Anne Robinson returns to host You Be the Judge: Crime & Punishment Credit: Not known, clear with picture desk ANNE ROBINSON has hit the heights on TV but her love life might eclipse it from £20million divorces to dating Queen Camilla's ex-husband. The 80-year-old is making her TV comeback as she hosts crime documentary, You Be the Judge: Crime & Punishment tonight on Channel 5. 6 Anne Robinson is a well known TV star - on the right with her ex-husband John Penrose Credit: ITV Who has Anne Robinson dated? Charlie Wilson (1968-1973) 6 Anne Robinson began her career as a news reporter at the Daily Mail, becoming its first female trainee reporter. She quickly fell in love with her boss, Charlie Wilson, but after they got married in 1968, the TV presenter had to leave her job as married couples were banned from working together at the time. In 1970, the pair had their first child, Emma, but Anne's alcohol addiction worsened and placed a strain on her life. The Times reported that she would wake up on a Sunday morning and drink gin while she looked after her daughter. She told the Mail: 'I suffered from a really bad drink problem and my weight dropped down to about six stone.' Anne's marriage with Charlie broke down and the couple filed for divorce and an intense custody battle over Emma began. Her colleagues testified against her and Charlie was granted full custody of their daughter in 1973. The former journalist told The Times: 'There was him who expected a wife, and there was me who had never seen my ma' behave as a wife. She was a breadwinner. 'So we both came to a bit of a halt. No one was getting what they expected." John Penrose (1980-2007) 6 Credit: Photo by Dennis Stone/REX/Shutterstock: Anne Robinson and John Penrose. Credit: Rex During her legal battles, Anne started dating John Penrose - a fellow reporter - with the pair tying the knot in 1980. Focused on turning her life around, Anne went teetotal and joined Alcoholics Anonymous. Taking over as presenter of Watchdog in 1993 brought a 49-year-old Anne onto our televisions for the first time. Her star was set to rise higher as she became the stone-cold host of The Weakest Link which garnered a spin-off in the US which Anne hosted. But her new fame came at the cost of her marriage with John and it came crashing down in 2008. The Queen of Mean told the Daily Mail: 'No mother puts her son on her knee and teaches him what to do when he grows up and marries someone who earns more money and might even be smarter than him. 'There are few happy husbands under those circumstances, and I am astonished that Penrose and I got as far as we did.' However, during her marriage to John, Anne had become one of the most recognisable faces on TV worldwide earning her an estimated £60million fortune. Anne was, however, allowed to keep her impressive property portfolio - which included a London townhouse, a penthouse in New York, a Long Island mansion and a cottage in Gloucestershire. Andrew Parker-Bowles (2023-present) 6 Anne Robinson was rumoured to be dating Andrew Parker-Bowles (right) Following her divorce from John, Anne has liked to keep her private life out of the spotlight. However, she previously opened up to The Sun about finding love again, and how she didn't "get on" with dating apps. She told us in 2017: "I wouldn't date any of the men on Tinder. I deleted it and wouldn't even know how to get the account back. However, Anne added that she still enjoys an active sex life, and revealed: "I hope all women my age are having sex, why wouldn't they be? It's what keeps me young." Then in December 2023, The Sun exclusively revealed how Anne was in a relationship with Andrew Parker-Bowles. The retired Army Brigadier is the ex-husband of Queen Camilla and shares two children Tom and Laura with her - he was even present at her marriage to King Charles and their Coronation. Andrew and Anne have reportedly been dating since late 2022. His ex-wife Queen Camilla is said to support the relationship. A friend of the pair told The Sun: 'They have judiciously avoided being photographed together as they both wanted to keep this quiet for as long as possible. 'Annie proudly tells everyone she is the daughter of a market trader chicken-seller and is as far removed from a toff as could be — frankly it beats any storyline The Crown could possibly come up with. 'Annie and Andrew get on splendidly — she makes him laugh, a lot, and he is one of the few people to get away with poking fun at her." In May 2024, Anne revealed in a SAGA Magazine interview that she was dating Andrew. She said: "Yes. Full stop. Mind your own business." The couple both live in the Cotswolds where they have attempted to keep their relationship quiet. Anne added: 'I'd been out of the game for so long, and also I don't drink. If you don't drink you're not as reckless, are you?' "I'd say that like everything else I've done, it's always worth the risk. I'm a great believer in surprising yourself by taking risks. Personally and professionally." Does Anne Robinson have any children?
