Former Weakest Link host Anne Robinson has given an update on her love life. The 79-year-old TV presenter has confirmed a relationship with a link to the Royal Family – the Queen’s ex-husband Andrew Parker Bowles.
Unconfirmed reports at the end of last year suggested the former Weakest Link host and the retired cavalry officer, 84, were dating. The speculation suggested that the pair were reportedly set up by a “mutual friend”, and they are believed to have enjoyed their first date at a dinner party where David Cameron was also in attendance.
Now Anne has confirmed they are an item. She told Saga magazine: “Yes. Full stop. Mind your own business.”
The interview comes as Anne is announced as the publication’s new agony aunt, a role she will take on from their June issue. Speaking about returning to the dating pool in her seventies, after being single for more than a decade, she told Saga: “I’d been out of the game for so long.
“And also I don’t drink. If you don’t drink, you’re not as reckless, are you?
“I’m a great believer in surprising yourself by taking risks. Personally and professionally. Nothing ventured, nothing gained. If the worst that can happen is you get some egg on your face, that’s not terrible is it?”
On why dating can be easier in older age, she said: “You’re much more selective about what you’re going to get into a tizz about. Nothing matters that much. You’re not going to change.”
The sharp-tongued TV personality became known for delivering cutting remarks to contestants and her catchphrase “you are the weakest link, goodbye” when she presented the BBC quiz show. The Weakest Link was first broadcast in 2000, before ending 12 years later.
Anne previously hosted Channel 4 quiz show Countdown, becoming its sixth presenter and the first female to take the role. She stepped down in 2022, having recorded 265 episodes of the show.
She was married to her first husband Charles Wilson between 1968 and 1973. She then spent seven years as a divorcee before her second marriage to John Penrose, which lasted 27 years between 1980 and 2007.
Andrew Parker Bowles married Camilla in 1973 and they had two children together, Tom and Laura, before divorcing in 1995. The King, who was divorced from Diana, Princess of Wales in 1996, wed Camilla in April 2005 at the Guildhall in Windsor.
The full interview is in June’s issue of Saga magazine
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