How old is anne hegerty the chase

In this three part series, Anne Hegerty, Mark Labbett and Shaun Wallace - three of the biggest brains of the quizzing universe - have escaped the confines of The Chase studio to embark on an adventure like no other.

Throughout the series, they're pitting their wits against extraordinary competition as they try to answer the age old question 'Are we really as smart as we think we are? To find the answers, The Chasers Road Trip follows the three titans of trivia as they travel the globe to take on child geniuses, great apes, and the latest AI and robot technology. I think I'm a better quizzer because I'm autistic. I think autism makes it easier for me to remember stuff.

Catch up on the series on ITV Hub. While Anne is best known for the ITV show The Chase , a new spin-off series called Beat the Chasers, which saw individuals go against a team of Chasers, has recently proved a great hit.

And now Anne has revealed it's expected to return. Chase star Anne Hergerty loves the time she spends working with her fellow Chasers and host of the show, Bradley Walsh , with whom she says a great relationship. I admire him enormously. Anne is good friends with all the chasers, in particular, fellow chaser Mark Labbett. Away from the show, Paul Sinha is her quizzing pairs partner. Get Me Out of Here!

If you present me with a situation, I am going to need time to get my head around it. She recently revealed on an episode of 'The Chase' that she also suffers from prosopagnosia which means she cannot recognise people's faces.

Anne commented: "Not being able to recognise faces is called prosopagnosia. I know that because I have it. A lot of people just misunderstand it. In a different interview Anne revealed if she does find love, she would rather not date someone else with autism. It does depend on the bloke though, they are all so different. Remember this hysterical moment on The Chase? It still tickles Anne now and has led to the producers setting up more jokes for her. Anne's character in The Chase is The Governess but she insists it is an act and very different to her real personality.

Especially when the lipstick goes on as I would normally never wear that shade of red. Before her big TV break, Anne admits she struggled with debt. R ock bottom, for Anne Hegerty, came some time in Her work — as a freelance copy editor and proofreader — had dried up.

And they did. Hegerty was assigned a social worker, Jeff McKenzie. He was brilliant. He helped her to get back on disability benefit and housing benefit. She finally got herself a usable bank account. Now, a couple of days after meeting me for a cup of coffee outside a cafe in a park in Watford, she is jetting off to Australia again, to take part in another television show.

But she was going to the Mastermind Club, a group of former contestants of the storied BBC quizshow who met in a pub once a month. Through the club, she got involved in a national circuit that organised a big quiz once a month. She started to do well in that and attracted attention. He told her about a new ITV quizshow on which he was appearing. He said she should watch it. She did — and she liked it. When she heard they were hiring more quizzers, she applied.

That is how Hegerty became the Governess on The Chase. She is happy with it. The success of The Chase did not surprise her. I was slightly surprised how long it took … more out of naivety than arrogance. Is that what she wanted, to be famous? She is now Hegerty had assumed she would be a famous writer. After studying linguistics at university, she did a journalism course and worked for various local papers. But it never quite happened; she turned to copy editing and proofreading.

She talks about the time, a couple of years before The Chase, when she applied for a full-time proofreading job in the civil service. She is word perfect: the only thing she gets wrong, surprisingly, is the name of the singer. It is Kevin Johnson. This was around the time that things started to get bad. When she talks about the bad times, she does so matter-of-factly, without self-pity.

I t was and she was watching television.