Anne Hegerty has no interest in doing any more reality shows.
The 65-year-old quizzer - who is best known as The Governess on ITV's teatime favourite The Chase - took part in I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here! in 2018 but doesn't think anything will ever really top the experience she had in the Australian jungle.
"The jungle is about as big as you can get. Everything else is a bit of a step down. I don't want to do another reality show unless it involves something I want to get better at. I think I'm done," she told the Daily Star.
Anne appears on the show on rotation alongside Jenny Ryan - who has attempted a career as a singer following her stint on The X Factor : Celebrity - as well as Paul Sinha, Darragh Ennis, Mark Labbett and Shaun Wallace.
Outside of the series, she is a regular during pantomime season and also hosts Britain's Brightest Family for ITV but previously explained that the success of The Chase - which has been on air since 2009 - is likely down to host Bradley Walsh. Asked why the shows work so well, she told Best magazine: "Great formats and a brilliant host! You can tune into 'The Chase' at any point during the hour, catch up with it very quickly and be absorbed by it.
"But our secret weapon is Bradley Walsh everybody loves Bradley. He was made to do these programmes they just suit him down to the ground. I love being able to throw out a bizarre fact and he will run with it and make a joke out of it. I love the way he latches on to the things I say."
It comes after Anne opened up about the brutal way her father abandoned her when she was a girl. The TV star suffered heartbreak when she was young as her father walked out on her and her mother. In a vicious turn, her dad decided to turn his back on his family on Christmas Day - leaving a spiteful note as he walked out the door and out of their lives.
Anne opened up about her heartbreaking upbringing in the past but has now shared fresh details about the way her father - who died in 2017 at the age of 90 - left her. She has appeared in an episode of ITV’s DNA Journey where she discussed her history and upbringing. She told viewers: “My dad left home just before Christmas. He left my mother a note saying, ‘For Christmas 1970, one house free from husband’."
Reflecting further on her difficult past, Anne quipped: “People say, ‘Were you brought up in a nuclear family?’ I was like, ‘Well, it kind of exploded, so year?’“ While fans might be shocked by the brutally blunt message Anne's father left for her, she has previously explained that they reconciled later in life - and that he was one of the people who encouraged her after she was diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome when she was in her 40s.
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