Anne Robinson to host Weakest Link for school

The original host of BBC game show The Weakest Link is to present a one-off celebrity special to raise money for a school building project in the Cotswolds.

Anne Robinson, who presented the show from 2000 to 2011, will return for the event at The Barn Theatre in Cirencester.

Organisers said all of the proceeds would go to the Hatherop Big Build, a campaign to raise £1.5m to expand Hatherop Primary School.

The school is currently oversubscribed, and was at risk of partial closure due to the dilapidated state of one of its prefabricated buildings, it said.

Hatherop Primary School had a prefabricated building added in the 1990s as a temporary measure to deal with overcrowding.

It is still in use more 30 years later, and building surveyors have said it is now "at risk of structural failure".

The school also struggles to heat the building properly during winter and it experiences overheating in summer.

Headteacher Taryn Hancock said: "Hatherop Primary's buildings are no longer fit for purpose.

"With little funding available it has fallen on our school and local community to raise the money needed.

"The support we have received so far has been astonishing, but we have a long way to go."

Some of the contestants who will face a grilling by Robinson include Toyah Wilcox, Kay Burley, Stanley Johnson and Michael Grade.

The Weakest Link ran for 1,694 episodes under Robinson's tenure, before being revived by Romesh Ranganathan in recent years.

Robinson's catchphrase of "You are the weakest link, goodbye" became famous in the early 2000s.

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