Anne Hegerty's brutally honest love life admission and millionaire fortune after I'm A Celeb

Notoriously blunt arsenic the formidable Governess connected ITV’s The Chase, portion fame has made Anne Hegerty a millionaire it has not stopped her from being mean.

Despite books for her firm, Frosty Knickers Ltd, showing The Chaser Anne, 66, had implicit £807,000 successful the slope past August, she tells The Mirror: “I'm fractional Scottish. We don't walk wealth and, being a abdominous person, I tin lone bargain from definite places.

“I similar my wealth sitting successful my slope and representing a spot of security. I don’t spot the constituent successful sloshing wealth around. I’m not frugal, I’d really accidental I’m mean,”

A erstwhile journalist, Anne won fans aft opening up to I’m a Celebrity campmates during a stint successful the jungle successful 2018 astir having Aspergers, a signifier of autism.

She ended up connected benefits erstwhile once she was “getting much and much swamped by admin and losing much work” and suspected she was connected the spectrum aft recognising her symptoms connected a TV programme.

Not diagnosed until she was 44, with her diagnostic frankness, she describes herself, saying: “There is nary constituent successful utilizing silly euphemisms. Fat benignant of covers it. I’m 66. I americium truly fortunate to beryllium idiosyncratic who is connected TV screens astatine slightest erstwhile a week, and I locomotion done a country and radical cognize who I am.

“You deliberation of each these 20-something influencers who are each competing with each different and there's nary peculiar crushed to look astatine 1 of them alternatively than immoderate of the different ones. I deliberation I'm benignant of gladsome I'm not that, due to the fact that I've got, arsenic it were, a USP (unique selling point).

“I americium doing thing specific, and touch-wood, arsenic agelong arsenic I don't go stupid, it doesn't truly substance however overmuch older I’m getting, due to the fact that it isn't truly to bash with however I look oregon however young I am.”

Strangely, she feels she “spends excessively overmuch wealth connected clothes” adjacent though her favourite marque is Yours Clothing, wherever galore dresses outgo little than £50. And, though she says she has a wardrobe overflowing with outfits, her fiscal caution is clear, erstwhile she says: “I don’t spot the constituent successful buying worldly conscionable due to the fact that it’s a label. I similar illusion dresses from Yours with ruching connected the sides. I bash emotion a enarthrosis pad though. I truly similar Eighties fashion.”

Estimated to beryllium worthy £3.2 million, Anne, who splits her clip betwixt homes successful Manchester and Watford, does bask immoderate extravagances - similar flying archetypal people oregon concern connected trips and staying ‘Club Med’ erstwhile she flies overseas for quizzes. She enjoys fame and appreciates some the fiscal benefits and the world it has opened up to her.

Fiercely loyal to The Chase, which she has been portion of for 14 years, she is speedy to support it against allegations by immoderate viewers of being “a fix,” aft Chaser Shaun Wallace, champion known arsenic the Dark Destroyer, suffered a succession of incorrect answers.

“There is nary fix,” she insists. “I person nary thought erstwhile these volition beryllium broadcast and they’re not successful order, but we’ve had much losses successful the past fewer weeks of filming than is usual. We’ve been messaging each other, saying: ‘What’s going on?’.

“Everyone’s been reassuring each different that thing is going on. We’ve conscionable been up against immoderate earnestly bully teams that are mounting america immoderate earnestly precocious targets. Sometimes we conscionable get stomped each over. “We really bash suffer astir 25 per cent of the time. People conscionable ideate that we don’t.”

Outside The Chase, adjacent period Anne volition beryllium starring successful the Sleeping Beauty panto successful Scarborough arsenic the Fairy Godmother, which turns her speech to Christmas.

Godmother to The Chase quizzer Mark Labett’s 8 year-old lad Lawrence, she has already sent the lad a Christmas gift. She says: “It’s due to the fact that his day is astatine the extremity of November, truthful helium gets a day and Christmas contiguous astatine the aforesaid time.”

But she isn’t large connected Christmas, adding: “I’ll astir apt bargain myself a fewer mince pies, thing similar that. There’ll beryllium nary histrion oregon decorations.”

She has antecedently told how, successful 1970, erstwhile she was conscionable 12, her dad, Ken, walked retired connected Christmas Eve, lone returning aft the festivities.

She says: “He wouldn’t person Christmas Day meal with us. He wanted to devour separately successful his ain abstracted room. Things benignant of went incorrect aft my member needed his ain country and dada nary longer had a man-cave - a spot that was backstage to go. I wasn't a spot amazed erstwhile helium came backmost a fewer days later. Mum ne'er got circular to changing the locks, truthful helium was ever popping back.

“Within a fewer months of that I recovered him sleeping successful a squat. I retrieve going to spot the squat, and it was horrible. There was a large spread successful the level that you had to beryllium cautious to locomotion around. I can’t retrieve wherever it was but I retrieve I had my member with maine and a pistillate mistook maine for his mother, which was a low-point for me.

“Then helium met a pistillate called Eunice who lived successful Croydon and aft that helium got a assembly flat, which was lone astir 20 minutes locomotion distant from america truthful helium came backmost rather a lot. I don't travel from a mediocre family. My dada was broke due to the fact that helium was a deadbeat, but his household was benignant of reasonably good off, and truthful was my mum’s.”

Turning her thoughts backmost to this year’s festivities and beyond, she says: “I deliberation my New Year’s solution is going to beryllium to get much active, due to the fact that it's conscionable ridiculous that if I locomotion for fractional an hour, I get stupidly retired of breath.

“I've got a large workout motorcycle and cross-trainer that's successful storage, and I americium readying astatine immoderate constituent to bring it backmost and enactment it successful the garage. I've already done that with the treadmill. At immoderate constituent I really mightiness commencement utilizing them.”

But uncovering a spouse is not connected her solution list, arsenic she says having autism makes her crave unsocial time. She does admit to a fewer crushes though, saying: “I retrieve successful the nineties truly fancying Tommy Lee Jones. Around the clip of Men In Black helium looked truthful sorted, arsenic if thing would ever astonishment him. I deliberation I similar the calm, assured type.”

But, for now, beingness connected The Chase, moving with her pal Bradley Walsh, couldn't beryllium better. She says: “I anticipation what I person present lasts and Bradley stays good and we each support going. This [fame] each happened truthful abruptly and it was truthful unexpected. I accidental what’s happened has been a spot similar a fairy-tale for me.”