Fastest Finger First's Anita Rani hasn't asked Jeremy Clarkson for advice ahead of debut

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Anita Rani has revealed she hasn't yet turned to Who Wants To A Millionaire? host Jeremy Clarkson for advice.Confident in her own abilities, the 44-year-old Countryfile star, who is launching spin-off show Fastest Finger First on Bank Holiday Monday, says: "I haven’t caught up with him, but I like his farming show."It comes as Anita calls on TV bosses to give more women jobs presenting quiz shows ­after University Challenge hired Amol Rajan last week to replace Jeremy Paxman.READ MORE: Countryfile's Anita Rani vamps it up in plunging ensemble for All Star MusicalsA sexism row erupted after it was reported Paxman’s understudies Emma Barnett, 37, and Samira Ahmed, 54, were promised auditions which failed to materialise.She says: “These opportunities don’t come around very often.

I’ve wanted to do a quiz for ages.“Something as iconic as Millionaire, the same brand, deciding to do an offshoot is a dream come true.“And how many women present quiz shows?

I don’t know why it’s ­taken so long.“It’s the question we keep asking ourselves.“Women are ready. We’ve done the graft, we’ve got the CV, we’ve got the experience.

You’ve got to wait for ­people to believe you’ve got the ­capacity to do it, and then finally, it’s good.”Fastest Finger First sees contestants play Millionaire’s first round, with the chance to win a guaranteed place in the main show.But straight-talking former Strictly semi-finalist Anita has no plans to go down the cheesy catchphrase route.She adds: “I was like, ‘I’ve got a quiz show, what am I going to do – wink?’ The wink is gone.”Laughing and shaking her head she says, “My catchphrase will be, ‘Yeah, call that a f***ing answer’.“If we get a massive run, we’ll see what tic develops naturally.“I didn’t feel.