Anne Hegerty is considering retiring.
The ‘Chase’ star admits her schedule has "gone bonkers" since she left the ‘I’m A Celebrity … Get Me Out Of Here’ jungle and she is considering quitting her job as she finds it "overwhelming" at times.
She said: "My schedule has gone bonkers and I find it overwhelming most of the time. Not a day goes by that I don’t think it would be cool to retire."
However, the 60-year-old television quiz personality credits the ITV quiz show for turning her life around as she felt "very demoralised" before joining the show.
She added to the Daily Star newspaper: "Before ‘The Chase’ came into my life I was very demoralised. I was a proofreader working from home, but because I’m autistic I found it difficult to get organised and so I was losing work."
Anne previously revealed she was ruled out of so many ‘I’m A Celebrity’ Bushtucker Trials because the show’s psychologist "freaked out" that she might not be able to cope.
She said: "I’ve shown a more pathetic side [to myself]. I was a bit surprised that I kept being ruled out on medical grounds. What that was actually about was there is a psychologist attached to the programme. She got very freaked out by how upset I was by the first trial and basically she kept saying, ‘I don’t want Anne doing this again until she’s recovered.’ She said to me before I did the second trial, ‘You are absolutely not to push yourself beyond your limits.’ But I said, ‘I don’t want to let people down.’ She was like, ‘Shut up, stop talking about not letting people down. If you push yourself beyond your limits I’m going to pull you out of the jungle and we will be having the next conversation in a hotel.’"
Anne Hegerty considering retiring
