Chase Star Announces Unexpected Career Change and Discusses Departure After Securing New Role Outside ITV Quiz Show

The Chase’s Anne Hegerty has announced she’s been cast in a short film and will swap the ITV quiz for the big screen.

The TV personality, 65, said that filming would begin later this year and she’d be using her pantomime experience to help while making her debut in front of the camera. 

She told Daily Star: ‘I’ve been asked to be in the film and I’ve decided to go for it. We’re going to be making that in the next few months’.

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‘I don’t think I’ll be nervous. It’s not in front of an audience. If it was, I’d be thinking, ‘Oh my God am I going to forget my lines?’ But because there won’t be an audience watching, I’m not worried. 

Anne, who has appeared as The Governess on the ITV show since 2010, also revealed wether her new role would mean she was leaving the series.

The Chase’s Anne Hegerty, 65, has announced she’s been cast in a short film and will swapthe ITV quiz for the big screen

The TV personality said that filming would begin later this year and she’d be using her pantomime experience to help while making her debut in front of the camera

Telling the publication: ‘I don’t have any plans to retire. [The Chase is] the little workhorse that makes everything else possible, and I love doing it. It’s the best job I’ve ever had, so I’m happy to keep going as long as they want me for’. 

Anne previously revealed she opted out of appearing the latest series of Dancing On Ice in order to prioritise her role in Chesterfield pantomime Aladdin. 

Talking to The Mirror last year she explained: ‘I did try out for Dancing on Ice because I have a strong desire to master ice skating. 

‘However, scheduling conflicts with the pantomime arose, and the allure of being on stage, engaging with an audience, acting, singing, and injecting humour… that experience held significant value for me. 

‘I would have just ended up being towed around by a penguin and never really getting to skate. That would have been quite disheartening.’

It comes after Anne said how she and her quiz show co-stars have a WhatsApp group where they candidly discuss producers.

The TV star said the group chat serves as a support system during tough times when the Chasers – made up of Anne, Mark Labbett, Jenny Ryan, Paul Sinha, Shaun Wallace, Darragh Ennis – are frequently losing on the show.

Anne told The Express how the five Chasers are very close and like to socialise at a certain restaurant because ‘people don’t eavesdrop’.

She said: ‘We have WhatsApp. We have one WhatsApp group that’s got the producers in and another one that hasn’t got the producers in so we can b**** about them.

Anne, who has appeared as The Governess on the ITV show since 2010, also revealed wether her new role would mean she was leaving the series  (pictured with host Bradley Walsh)

Saying: ‘I don’t have any plans to retire. [The Chase is] the little workhorse that makes everything else possible, and I love doing it. It’s the best job I’ve ever had, so I’m happy to keep going as long as they want me for’.

‘If someone is having a bad time, if someone [a chaser] was losing a lot, we’d kind of be very reassuring because it could be any of us.’

The TV personality is best known for her intelligence on the show and has also debuted on I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here.

She has previously opened up on how she copes with Autism and last year revealed it’s had a tool on her finding love.

In her spin-off series The Chasers Road Trip, the presenter revealed the longest relationship she had had was four months and ended it because she ‘wasn’t good’ at providing him with the right amount of attention.She went on to joke that she is ‘basically a Cyborg’ after learning that she has an emotional intelligence level of just 1%.

Anne previously revealed she opted out of appearing the latest series of Dancing On Ice in order to prioritise her role in Chesterfield pantomime Aladdin