Anne Hegerty, known as The Governess on The Chase, has criticised Welsh football manager and pundit Robbie Savage, calling him “obnoxious” after co-star Shaun Wallace “took him to pieces” during a behind-the-scenes moment.
Speaking to The Mirror ahead of the new spin-off The Chase Around The World, Hegerty recalled an interaction with Savage, who appeared on a 2013 celebrity special of the quiz show to raise money for charity alongside Andrea McLean, Jessica Taylor and Rory McGrath.
Anne Hegerty recalls the green room incident
Hegerty said: “I’ve sat in a green room with Shaun and watched him take Robbie Savage to pieces. He was being obnoxious and asking dumb questions, and then Shaun suddenly turned around to him, started firing football questions at him and he was just sitting there like… he had no idea. It was a thing of beauty!”
Her comments came after Shaun Wallace admitted that even the Chasers make mistakes. Recalling his own error, Wallace said: “Every Achilles has a heel. I’ve never watched The Simpsons, remember that time they asked me the colour of Marge Simpson’s hair? I said orange. The abuse I got on Twitter would make you want to quit the show.”
Shaun Wallace on his Simpsons blunder
Wallace explained that, as with soaps, he would just guess an answer. He was asked another Simpsons question where he had no choice but to do the same. “They then asked me, who is the eldest Simpsons child, for £50,000? I know there’s three, Maggie, Lisa and Bart, and it took me six seconds to work out which one is it.” Wallace said he answered Lisa, ultimately losing the huge sum. He added: “Questions are only easy if you know the answer, so one thing about us as quizzers is we’re brilliant quizzers, but we’re human, we make mistakes.”
The Chase Around The World is available to watch on ITVX.
