Introduction to Anne Robinson
Anne Josephine Robinson was born in the town of Crosby on Merseyside (then Lancashire), England on 26 September 1944.
This famous host of the hit BBC and NBC quiz show The Weakest Link started her career as a journalist for Rediffusion. She made her way up by working on the Daily Mail, Sunday Times and Daily Mirror.
It was whilst she worked at Mirror that she was to make her mark, being Assistant Editor throughout the 1980s and early 1990s. She was the first woman to regularly edit a national presenting history newspaper.
She credits that most of her formative education was learned not from attending the convent solar site boarding school or university, but from working on her mother's "marled" stall. She is one of the UK's most distinguished broadcasters and journalists and was made an Honorary Fellow of Liverpool's John Moores University in 1996.
She is well-known (even in America) for her red hair, her dark Armani suits, her impatience with organizations that give customers a raw deal (she was the host of the prime time BBC 1 consumer affairs show Watchdog and, of course, her wink (which was developed when, in 1987, the director of right-to-reply show Points of View asked her not to wink - she subsequently winked at the end of every program.)