Quiz legend quits Eggheads after years of ‘great fun’
thesun.co.ukQUIZ show legend Judith Keppel is retiring from Channel 5’s Eggheads after 19 years. The show returns on Monday, but viewers will not see Keppel on the panel of boffins taking on the contestants.
Keppel, 80, is one of the original Eggheads, having joined the programme in 2003 after being catapulted to fame as the first UK winner of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?
in 2000. Explaining her decision to retire, she said: “I have done it for 19 years and my memory is definitely not what it was.” Keppel added: “I have noticed that I can’t learn as well as I did. “So I just thought it was time to go.” She said doing Eggheads had been “great fun.” READ MORE ON CHANNEL 5TRUE CRIME Here's who's starring in the Channel 5 true crime drama Maxineowen-ing up Our Yorkshire Farm's Amanda Owen finally addresses split from husband Clive “I think what I’ll funnily enough miss is having to concentrate. “Because it was very good for me in that I started reading the papers, concentrating hard. “Now, of course, I cast away any sports pages there are, don’t have to do that, don’t have to read about pop music or anything like that.” Eggheads returns to Channel 5 on October 10 at 6.30pm.
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