No, Anne Robinson doesn't receives a commission £100 by Channel 4 each time she offers a cheeky wink on Countdown.
The 77-year-old presenter, who took over from The Apprentice’s Nick Hewer on the letters and numbers programme, sometimes treats viewers to her signature transfer, which was in fact made well-known on The Weakest Hyperlink.
Anne had joked that she will get cash in her pocket each time she does her basic blink on Countdown.
‘I advised them I receives a commission £100 per wink,’ Anne mentioned. She added to the she had the settlement written into her contract.
‘I mentioned, ‘It’s going to price you £100 a present,’ Anne continued. ‘We movie 5 exhibits a day, in order that’s 15 exhibits per week, and an additional £1,500.’
Channel 4 has since confirmed that this isn't truly the case and that Anne was being humorous. Classique.
Anne would famously shoot the Weakest Hyperlink viewers a wink on the finish of every episode of the BBC quiz present when it aired for six years between 2003 and 2009.
Accompanying the transfer, she would say: ‘Be part of us once more for The Weakest Hyperlink. Goodbye.’
Anne has since been changed on The Weakest Hyperlink by comic Romesh Ranganathan, who launched a star model of the present in December.
The funnyman admitted on the time that he ‘wasn’t certain’ about taking up from no-nonsense quiz grasp when he was first supplied the function as a result of he didn't need to change right into a ‘shiny’ host.
‘I didn’t suppose that was one of many issues that I'd find yourself doing so after we talked about it I simply wasn’t totally certain if it was proper for me,’ Romesh mentioned.
‘They mentioned to me, we simply need you to be your self and play it how I'd play it.
‘I didn’t need to be one thing I'm not and I didn’t need to change to this shiny ground quiz host so I assumed I'd simply be myself.’
Metro.co.uk has contacted Channel 4 for remark.
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