Anne Robinson says she’d “never” get away with her comments to The Weakest Link contestants if she were to host it nowadays.
The TV presenter hosted the BBC quiz show from 2000 to 2012 and was known for her often harsh remarks.
Robinson, 79, admitted ‘half of it would be stamped out’ if it were to air on television now but claimed they would feel ‘short-changed’ if she were nice.
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Her zingers would often leave competitors open-mouthed, as she asked one middle-aged lady who told her she was starting an Open University course – ‘oh, have you just got divorced?’
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She even asked another what they did ‘when you’re not eating’. Speaking to The Oldie magazine about her jibes, she said: “You’d never be able to say all that now.
“Half of it would be stamped out. I always thought the contestants would feel short-changed if I were nice.
“When we had a rehearsal with real-life people for the first time, I realised how competitive they were.”
She continued: “I’d say ‘why are you voting off Janet?’ And they’d say ‘because she has Jesus sandals and quite bad BO’.
“And I thought ‘great – we can all be ourselves’.”
On whether she minded her nickname, the Queen of Mean – she said: “I had spent years in a newspaper newsroom where that’s the common banter. Good journalists have a radar, which for me made The Weakest Link easy.”
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