# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/anne-robinson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:31:26.120Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/anne-robinson"
name: "Anne Robinson"
slug: "anne-robinson"
description: "Anne Josephine Robinson is a British journalist and television presenter, best known as the host of BBC game show The Weakest Link from 2000 to 2012, and again in 2017 for a one-off celebrity special for Children in Need. She presented the BBC consumer affairs programme Watchdog for a total of 15 years, from 1993 to 2001 and again from 2009 to 2015. Robinson hosted the Channel 4 game show Countdown from June 2021 to July 2022, taking over from Nick Hewer. She left the programme on 13 July 2022 after one year, recording a total of 265 episodes."
tagline: "English television presenter and journalist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Anne_Robinson_pic.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
birthDate: "1944-09-26"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.14693466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0732381/"
    handle:    "nm0732381"
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    title: "Anne Robinson"
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    title: "Anne Robinson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Anne Robinson"
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    title: "Anne Robinson"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump