LAST EDITED ON 05-16-02 AT 04:59 PM (EST) As if in confirmation of my already low opinion of her, Ms. Robinson decided to lash out at President Bush, "stupid Americans" and our great country. Enjoy your trip back to the land of bad teeth, fog and other snooty prigs like yourself.
ANNE Robinson, the flame-haired quiz show dominatrix, is not impressed. The Weakest Link is to be shelved in the United States as a result of declining audience figures and Anne, who has made no secret of her contempt for American intellect, is taking no prisoners.
America, You are the Weakest Link, Goodbye! "On one US show I asked a young soap star how many minutes there were in half an hour," Anne says, wearily. "And she said 60."
Damn. She figured out that all of our Soap Opera stars aren't Nobel Prize Winners. Let's hope she doesn't talk to any Baywatch stars.
Nor is she much impressed by their leader. "I saw George Bush at a benefit concert actually waving at Stevie Wonder," she says, incredulously. "Someone had to tell him 'he can't see you'." Anne wanted to mention the incident on a US chat show but, post- September 11, criticising Dubya was deemed unpatriotic.
"Suddenly, you couldn't say anything about him," she says. "Before September 11, I remember asking on TV if Bush knew where Europe was. Then suddenly, you had to act as if he was Einstein."
Does she think Americans are definitively more stupid than the Brits? "You have to remember that only five per cent of Americans have passports," she says. "That explains a lot..."
Perhaps that has something to do with the two big OCEANS that surround our country. Oh yeah, I guess when you come from a country about the size of New Jersey. BTW, how's the British Empire doing these?
"Of course, the real test will be whether Americans can concentrate for an hour," says Anne, lapsing into her old ways. Descended from a long line of North Wales Wynne-Jones, I have to take issue with her over her anti- Welsh comments on BBC2's Room 101.
I'll finish this article after my nap it's getting too long.
Fortunately for the Valleys, she has a new target. Last year she upset Americans by declaring that few US citizens knew anywhere outside of Idaho - and she despairs of her Stateside contestants.
You mean there's ANOTHER Moscow in...how do you say it..Rush-ah.
"You can always tell Texans," she says. "They wear big, bright, multi- coloured sweaters. Every time I see one, I think God's made another rainbow. Then you get the clean-shaven Right-wing Christian types. The Jews on our team are always laughing at them saying: 'He wouldn't have let us hide in his attic.'"
Jews! In Texas! Get a rope.
She does, however, have a kind word for Bill Clinton. "I think he did womankind a great favour. He proved that giving your boss a blow job in the photocopying cupboard is not dating. Nor is it clever. Throughout history, the disappointment of women is that they are attracted to power."
Sparkling political commentary. I bow down to your wit and insightfulness.
I never liked you in the first place, Anne, and the stupid American public was smart enough to see that your show had become tiresome.