Bradley Walsh admits he ‘cheated’ producers to bag his job hosting ITV's The Chase

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Bradley Walsh has been the famous face of The Chase for 12 years, but he's finally revealed how he really bagged his job hosting the hit ITV show.The cheeky host has presented the show since it first aired in 2009, and he's known for bantering with his players and breaking character when he spots rude names in his questions.However, it turns out he 'cheated' his way into his hosting role - and it involved cutting corners with dirty tricks to 'outsmart' the show's genius Chasers in a quiz.Bradley, 61, told his tale of trickery when he appeared on Capital Breakfast.Radio DJ and Dancing on Ice 2021 champ Sonny Jay asked him: "‘I have to ask you, Bradley, obviously you do The Chase, now you must have so much knowledge and have learned so much from doing the show."However, do you think that you might be able to outsmart them on something on your subject?

Have you got a subject where you think, 'Actually I don’t think they would know the answer to that'?"Bradley reckoned his Chasers would be strong in every subject area, but soon confessed to how he won his job on the show.Bradley said: "I’ve gotta fess up as well.

When we first did the job, the only two choices that were first there were actually The Beast and The Dark Destroyer, right?’ he began, referring to quiz masters Mark Labbett and Shaun Wallace."And we were doing an office run through, and this is to get the job up and running.

And I said, 'This is ludicrous. These questions are so easy.'"A member of the production team asked him if he could be one of the Chasers, to which Bradley replied: 'If I beat the Chaser, we'll make a series, let's do that.'Walsh went on: "And they went, 'Yeah, alright, if you can beat the Chaser.' Because they thought that the general public.