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Daily Record
30-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Record
ITV The Chase's Anne Hegerty names Chaser who is 'best in the world'
Anne Hegerty has revealed the one star of The Chase who is "the best in the world" as she made a candid confession about her quizzing abilities. The 66-year-old, better known as the The Governess on the hit ITV show rose to fame back in 2010 when she joined the series. Anne has since went on to appear on various spin-offs, including international versions of the quiz programme. While many viewers and players are regularly left in awe by the general knowledge guru, the star has admitted there are other quizzers who are "so much better" than her. Anne named one Chaser in particular, who she believes she is "nowhere near" as good as. When asked who her biggest quiz rival is, she told Best Magazine: "You have no idea how many people there are who are much better than me. It's the first time ever that the current world champion is a woman. "Her name is Victoria Groce and she is a Chaser on the American version of The Chase. I'm nowhere near as good as her. She's the best in the world." Anne worked as a journalist and ghost writer before she became a household name on the ITV soap. She first debuted on television during Mastermind in 1987 where she selected 'The Life and Works of Lorenz Hart' as her specialist subject, Edinburgh Live reports. She also previously served as a "phone a friend" lifeline on Who Wants to be A Millionaire? Since then Anne has appeared on numerous popular TV shows including Today's the Day, Fifteen to One, Brain of Britain and Are You an Egghead? Anne started out on The Chase in 2010 and has successfully beat the players on a 79.9 per cent on episodes, making her the most successful Chaser on the ITV show. Other chasers on the UK show include Mark Labbett, Shaun Wallace, Paul Sinha, Jenny Ryan, and Darragh Ennis. Meanwhile, Anne's quiz idol Victoria first gained recognition in the US when she broke David Madden's 19-day winning streak on the show Jeopardy! back in 2005, marking the eighth-longest winning streak in the programme's history. Groce, 44, joined the Chase US in 2022, which also features UK Chaser Mark Labbett, better known as 'The Beast'. That same year, she was victorious in the pairs competition at the International Quizzing Championships with Eggheads star Kevin Ashman, and also won the team contest. Born in Georgia, Victoria made history in 2024 when she became the first woman and the first American to take home the trophy in the World Quizzing Championships, having previously secured silver and bronze medals in the competition. It's well known that Kevin is the most successful competitor in the contest, having won the title six times. His fellow Egghead and former Who Wants to be a Millionaire? winner Patrick Gibson follows closely behind with four championships under his belt.
Telegraph
03-03-2025
- Sport
- Telegraph
Emotional Steve Parish was ready to erupt – shame BBC did their best to contain him
No question as to what was the most dramatic moment of the weekend: Millwall goalie Liam Roberts attempts to remove Jean-Philippe Mateta's head from Jean-Philippe Mateta's body, Crystal Palace chairman Steve Parish charges down from the stands in a rage, Millwall fans chant 'let him die', Parish agrees to be interviewed at half-time by the BBC 's Kelly Somers. How did the TV coverage do? Pitchside, Somers could have let the situation play out more: Parish was clearly livid and there was, briefly, a whiff of cordite about the live interview. What a golden opportunity: to have a gobby and furious chairman talking live during the actual match! With the right poking, the sky was the limit: we might have had a 'ban him from football for life' or an 'if you did that in the high street you'd go to prison', maybe even offering Roberts a full and frank exchange of views about it in the Selhurst car park afterwards. I genuinely feel that Somers might have denied us something to match John Sitton's epoch-defining ' and you can bring your effing dinner' outburst. Parish was ready to pop. Instead, she kept touching him supportively on the arm, like a sympathetic undertaker or a classroom assistant trying to explain why we don't throw the poster paints. Gently but firmly moving him on to new topics, maybe Somers thought she was saving Parish from himself, which is neither her job nor her problem, especially as Parish explicitly said he didn't want to think or talk about anything other than 'the most reckless challenge I have ever seen.' "That is the most reckless challenge on a football pitch I think I've ever seen." Crystal Palace chairman and co-owner Steve Parish has spoken about Millwall keeper Liam Roberts' challenge on Jean-Philippe Mateta. — Match of the Day (@BBCMOTD) March 1, 2025 An opportunity missed, albeit well-meaningly. It's always difficult for TV to cover anything involving a player getting badly hurt, and caution is understandable when the live production can't be sure whether to be charging the Millwall goalie as a bloody idiot or charging him with manslaughter. Troy Deeney pointed out that the stricken player's family would be there, 'panicking' and watching their loved one being treated. Given that Deeney has done three months inside for affray, you obviously have to sit up and listen when he has his say about the old ultraviolence. Deeney insight on point I enjoy Deeney as a pundit, he was quite good talking about Eddie Nketiah's positional pros and cons here and all in all seemed on safer ground than when he memorably went on Celebrity Mastermind and managed a grand total of zero correct answers on his specialist subject. That topic, in fairness, was the famously trappy 'The Life and Works of Piero della Francesca, specifically his time spent in Urbino around 1455–1470.' Oh all right, no it wasn't. It was Spiderman films. But only the Sam Raimi ones. Still, a lot to bone up on (that's literally three movies and long ones at that) and the point is that Deeney very much didn't let his head drop and has come back all the stronger for it. On that theme, something seems to have happened to Alex Scott: once such a sparky presence on the BBC, she has lost or mislaid her poise on screen, staring glassily at the camera as if on a hostage video, gurning at the wrong moments, acting as neither glamorous star player nor the selfless water carrier for the others. She didn't inspire confidence here with this handling of what could have turned into a major news story. Perhaps she needs a change of scene. I hope she is OK. Mixed report card, then, for Scott, Somers and Deeney but no doubt it was yet another 'F' for the Millwall supporters. The institution itself boasts 'a club like no other' and it sure is hard to argue with that. It's not rare to hear a 'let him die' chant every now and again, generally further down the pyramid, but it's more often deployed humorously, like when an opponent's amusement-arcade winger is rolling around on the floor trying to win a free-kick or waste time. Not when a player had been kung-fued in the face and, who knows, might even actually die. Jonathan Pearce rightly mentioned it in commentary at the time but it wasn't properly addressed by the coverage. You can certainly argue that sports TV should focus on the sport rather than the controversies and drama around it but all things considered, this was the moment and the story of the weekend and the production could have made more of a genuinely outrageous, water-cooler incident.
