The Rh Negative Blog

“You may as well say I’m the first presenter with an O negative blood type.”

Remember her?

Anne Josephine Robinson (born 26 September 1944) is an English television presenter and journalist. She gained worldwide recognition as host of BBC game show The Weakest Link (2000–2012). She has presented the Channel 4 game show Countdown since 28 June 2021, taking over from Nick Hewer.

Robinson was born in Crosby, Lancashire, on 26 September 1944 and is of Irish descent. Her father was a schoolteacher. Her mother, Anne Josephine (née Wilson), who was an alcoholic, was an agricultural businesswoman from Northern Ireland, where she was the manager of a market stall. When she came to England, she married into her husband’s family of wholesale chicken dealers, and sold rationed rabbit after the Second World War. She inherited the family market stall in Liverpool and transformed it into one of the largest wholesale poultry dealing businesses in the north of England.

https://inews.co.uk/culture/television/anne-robinson-countdown-channel-4-the-weakest-link-interview-1072399