OHMYGOSSIP — Anne Hegerty is related to royalty.
The 63-year-old TV personality has been dubbed Queen Anne by her co-stars on ‘The Chase’ after discovering her royal links on the new ITV show ‘DNA Journey’.
A source told the Daily Mirror newspaper: “Anne was excited and fascinated to learn she has royal relations.
“It was a big shock to her but a very nice one and she was very interested to delve into the details to find out more about it.”
Shaun Wallace also appears in the first episode of the new series, and he joked about having to now “bow and curtsy” to Anne.
He said: “Without spoiling anything, we call her ‘Queen Anne’, because obviously she’s the queen of quizzing, but we have to really bow and curtsy to her now!”
By contrast, Anne recently admitted she was “pathetic” during her time on ‘I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here!’.
The TV star confessed that it came as “a bit of a surprise” to her that she was the “underdog” during her series.
She said: “I thought I was going to be great.
“I didn’t expect to be so pathetic, so that was a bit of a surprise. I didn’t expect to go in there and be the underdog because I didn’t expect to be so absolutely freaked out by everything.”
Anne now wishes she had been more prepared before heading into the show.
She said: “One of the things I regret is my agent asked me if I wanted to go to the zoo and do a desensitisation course, and I said, ‘No, no, no, I’ll be fine,’ but I really wish I had.
“I found I was deeply freaked out by anything that scuttled.”