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The TV personality said she is "beyond thrilled" and will replace Nick Hewer later this year.

Robinson appeared in Countdown’s Dictionary Corner for a week in 1987, when the show was hosted by Richard Whiteley.

The Weakest Link presenter will be taking over from Nick Hewer 

Anne Robinson will replace Nick Hewer as the new host of Channel 4s Countdown.

One of the books that Father Christmas brought me last month has got me thinking about Swindon. It’s Dent’s Modern Tribes, by Susie Dent, the Dictionary Corner lady from Countdown, a lovely book about the ‘secret’ lingo associated with various occupations and pastimes. Sadly, though, it doesn’t include regional language, which is a shame because I would like to see somebody write a book about words and sayings that were peculiar to Swindon, which are now in danger of dying and b...

“His teasing putdowns of the contestants are also testament to his dry sense of humour,” she said. On December 7, Nick admitted that the most recent lockdown had given him the opportunity to think about his future on Countdown. He informed fans, via Twitter, that it had been a “privilege and a pleasure” to present the programme but it was time to “smell the flowers and get a dog”. Countdown star Susie Dent has said she will miss her co-star Nick Hewer hugely (Image: Getty Images) Co...

Some 28 years have passed since I took my seat, rigid with fear, in Countdown’s Dictionary Corner for the first time and waited for the TV cameras to turn to me. A newly fledged dictionary editor at Oxford University Press, I was a reluctant addition to the hit Channel 4 words and numbers game show, having resisted my boss’s suggestion that I audition on at least three occasions. I am happiest when flying below the radar — but there I was. Somehow, I got through that first afternoon and, ...

At the risk of sounding insufferably smug, I have to admit that lockdown, spent with my partner Catherine at our farmhouse in rural Northamptonshire, was a pleasure. I enjoyed the pottering, the leisurely breakfasts; the sense that there was nothing pressing in my diary to propel me out of bed before the civilised hour of 9 am. Actually, although Catherine may demur, it was a pleasure to see more of her. I also started to think about the future, about encroaching old age — when youre 76, its ...