Brenda Blethyn: 'I wouldn't mind hosting The Chase!'

By Caren Clark
( What's on TV )
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Watch out Bradley Walsh, Brenda Blethyn is after your job on The Chase.

The actress, who reprises her role as shrewd detective Vera Stanhope in ITV crime drama Vera on Sunday, August 25, tells TV & Satellite Week that she would love to oversee proceedings and ask the questions on the ITV teatime quiz.

"I wouldn't mind Bradley Walsh's job on The Chase, I always watch it if I am home in time and then Eggheads straight afterwards," laughs Brenda. " I just love quizzes, puzzles and brainteasers. I think I'd make a good detective actually, I am nosy and I like solving things and figuring things out. I have sat at a crossword puzzle all day without solving a single clue, but I just love the process."

For the full interview, read TV & Satellite Week, which is out now.

 

Caren Clark
Caren Clark

Caren has been a journalist specializing in TV for almost two decades and is a Senior Features Writer for TV Times, TV & Satellite Week and What’s On TV magazines and she also writes for What to Watch.


Over the years, she has spent many a day in a muddy field or an on-set catering bus chatting to numerous stars on location including the likes of Olivia Colman, David Tennant, Suranne Jones, Jamie Dornan, Dame Judi Dench and Sir Derek Jacobi as well as Hollywood actors such as Glenn Close and Kiefer Sutherland.


Caren will happily sit down and watch any kind of telly (well, maybe not sci-fi!), but she particularly loves period dramas like Call the Midwife, Downton Abbey and The Crown and she’s also a big fan of juicy crime thrillers from Line of Duty to Poirot.


In her spare time, Caren enjoys going to the cinema and theatre or curling up with a good book.