Bradley Walsh has confessed that he cheated to land his job as the host of 'The Chase'.
Bradley Walsh appearing on Roman Kemp's Capital FM Breakfast Show
The 61-year-old TV star has been presenting the hugely popular ITV quiz show since 2009 and Bradley has now confessed that made a bet with the producers to get the programme on air.
The former 'Coronation Street' actor made a bet with the team that if he could beat one of the the Chasers in a run through then that would prove that the contestants would have a chance against the experts and the show should be made.
What Bradley didn't tell the production team was that when he did the office run through he could see the answers to all the questions so he knew he would win his bet and can't 'The Chase' on air.
Appearing on 'Capital Breakfast with Roman Kemp' on Monday (31.01.22), he confessed: "I've got to fess up. When we first did the job, the only two choices that were first there were actually The Beast and The Dark Destroyer, right? 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.' And they said, 'What, do you think you could beat the Chaser?' I said, 'If I beat the Chaser, we'll make a series, let's do that.' And they went, 'Yeah, alright, if you can beat the Chaser.' Because they thought that the general public won't be able to beat these gurus, right? And I went, 'Oh I'll definitely beat them, if I can beat them, we’ll make the series, alright?'
"And this is absolutely true, what they didn't realise was the sheets with the questions and the answers on were lying face down on my end of the desk, I could see the print through and I could read the answers backwards and I read them. So every time they come in on the head to head as if they were at the table, I’d smash both of them. And as I walked away, I took the piece of paper and put it on the the other table so no one saw it. So I'd actually cheated."
Bradley appeared on the radio show with his son Barney Walsh, who he stars with on reality road trip TV series 'Bradley Walsh & Son: Breaking Dad', whilst Roman's own father, Spanda Ballet musician Martin Kemp, also was a guest on the show.
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