Daily Star's Inside Hot TV newsletter sees Ed Gleave send you telly's hot takes straight to your inbox every Sunday Anne Robinson says she has told Countdown bosses they need to find more female contestants.
The star, 76, is the new host of the Channel 4 quiz show and when she started filming she was unimpressed that there were so many men competing.
Anne told the Daily Star Sunday: "It seemed to me that the majority of contestants were male. I did say, ‘You have got to persuade women to come on'.
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