Chris Tarrant isn’t keen to take on lots of TV work these days and only signs up for shows that he’s really excited about.
At 77, he says work is no longer a priority for him and he’s taking things easy. And that means he’s ruling out another stint on a game show.
He told the Daily Star Sunday: “I spent 50 years of my life in studios of one sort or another. I really don’t want to go back and do all that again.
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“I certainly don’t want to do a game show again or chat show or anything like that. Everyone is doing a podcast, but there are so many other things I’d rather be doing.
“Even with shows that I like, I think, ‘I can’t be bothered’. I’m just not interested.”
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Chris worked around the clock for decades, starring on a string of iconic shows including Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? and Tiswas.
There was also a gruelling stint as the host of Capital FM’s breakfast show that involved very early starts.
He said: “For 17 years, I was getting up at 5am and crawling into a studio for a 6am start. I did stuff like that for donkey’s years.
“It’s almost brainless in a way. I’d get up, go to work on the radio, then off to do Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? And then went home and slept. Then I’d get up and do it again.
“It was a tremendous time. It was a great time in my life. But we were all knackered. I was knackered, my driver was knackered…”
Now Chris takes on less work, he’s able to relax a bit more. That involves spending plenty of time with loved ones and he loves it so much, he has no intention of ever working that hard again.
He said; “These days I’m catching up with a lot of time with people I love. I’ve been to Borneo and we took the kids on safari in South Africa. It was marvellous.”
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Chris is also keen to make the most of his twilight years.
He added: “This sounds horrible, but I’ve been to so many funerals of friends over the past two or three years.
“So I just want to really the time I have to do things I enjoy. I don’t need to work and I’m actually really enjoying now for the first time really having some time to do what I want.”
Chris opens up about his career in his autobiography It’s Not A Proper Job, which is available from Great Northern Books at gnbooks.co.uk
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