The Chase star Anne Hegerty has explained her absence on season five of ITV's Beat The Chasers. "The Governess", 63, will be replaced by Australian The Chase star Issa Schultz on the popular gameshow this week and he will join Jenny Ryan, Mark Labbett, Paul Sinha and Shaun Wallace.
Discussing her absence on the show, Anne exclusively told OK! at the Pride of Manchester Awards: "Beat The Chasers is on, 9pm every night and that's the series I wasn't on because I got Covid.
So that's the series that's got one of our Australian Chasers on it." Talking about her replacement, Issa, 38, Anne added: "I think he's going to be brilliant, I think you are all going to love him.
He's a smashing bloke!" Get exclusive celebrity stories and fabulous photoshoots straight to your inbox with OK!'s daily newsletter .
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