Anne Robinson ‘returns’ to The Weakest Link – 13 years since leaving iconic role

ANNE Robinson 'returned' to The Weakest Link - 13 years connected from leaving her iconic big role.

Viewers volition undoubtedly retrieve Anne's tenure arsenic icy acold presenter of the deed BBC quiz, including her cheeky wink.

She hosted a one-off Weakest Link fundraising lawsuit for a schoolhouse gathering task successful the Cotswolds.

Anne, 80, grilled celebrity contestants, including broadcaster Kay Burley.

This non-televised peculiar variation took spot astatine Cirencester's The Barn Theatre.

Kay penned connected X: "Fun evening with the Queen of Mean to rise funds for @HatheropCastle who request a caller extortion for their classroom.

"@tomparkerbowles was conscionable excessively good! Thanks each for having maine x."

Proceeds are for the Hatherop Big Build, a run to rise £1.5m to grow Hatherop Primary School.

Back successful April 2011, Anne announced her determination to permission The Weakest Link aft implicit a decade.

She told The Guardian: "I primitively said I would bash [the programme for] 10 years.

"I did a twelvemonth much than I intended to. I deliberation 11 years is much than enough."

By 2022, the presenter revealed she had twice turned down the accidental to return - saying she couldn't beryllium arsenic mean arsenic she wanted.

Elsewhere, Romesh Ranganathan has been hosting celebrity-only editions connected BBC One.

The comedian and actor, 46, took implicit presenting The Weakest Link in 2021.

When helium began hosting the series, Romesh made definite to praise his predecessor.

He said: “Anne was an astonishing big and to measurement into her shoes is an anxiety-inducing privilege.

“I’m hoping we’ve recovered a mode to marque some the fans of the amusement blessed arsenic good arsenic bringing a caller assemblage to it.”

The Weakest Link airs connected BBC One and iPlayer.