New Countdown host Anne Robinson and daughter Emma swap wardrobes for the day
WITH their distinctive red hair, elf-like features, and quick wits, in many ways mother and daughter are cut from the same cloth.
Although Hermès for Anne Robinson and H&M for her long-suffering daughter Emma.
Emma wears Anne's Issey Miyake crinkled shirt, Dior quilted skirt, £2,100 and Yves Saint Laurent pumps and Anne wears Emma's Missoni poncho, Gap trousers and J.Crew jumper, £84[ /caption]
While the nitric-tongued TV star spends thousands of pounds a month on clothes, her only child prefers a more...casual look.
For her part, Emma believes that her mother tends to look more, well, like Sir Elton John: "I feel like sometimes the yellow double-breasted quilted jackets aren't as flattering as she might think, and that Elton probably wants them back.
“Mom doesn't always have to spend thousands and thousands to show off a really good size. »
So ahead of the former Weakest Link presenter's return to prime time terrestrial TV today as host of Channel 4's Countdown, The Sun invited the pair to swap guards. dresses.
Emma, 49, starts by donning Anne's wrinkled black Issey Miyake shirt and Dior quilted skirt, while Anne, 76, tries on Emma's striped poncho, Gap pants and J sweater. .Crew.
They each trample, after changing, with faces like thunder. They look livid.
We then try a few more swaps – before Anne has had enough and comes back to herself with her own bronze Victoria Beckham dress.
Speaking from her impossibly lavish Cotswolds mansion, Anne explains: "Years ago, when there was hope in my heart, I would buy outfits for Emma that all coordinated - but I didn't have them. never seen together.
“She looks like a tramp.
Emma wears Anne's Victoria Beckham giraffe print dress, £1,595 & Anne wears Emma's green H&M dress
Emma says:
I think mum's padded shoulder jackets aren't flattering...and Elton wants them back
Anna says:
Growing up you could never buy dresses for Emma… she looks like a tramp
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“Growing up, you could never buy dresses for her. In fact, you couldn't tell her what to do, but it gradually gets worse as she gets older.
Former alcoholic Anne has not touched a drop of alcohol in nearly 40 years.
What she could have spent on vintage wines, she most certainly compensated for on dresses, shoes and glasses (the latter she buys in a small French boutique, and at Specsavers).
When I ask her if it's “awkward” to guess how much she spends on clothes each year, Emma answers: “Too much”.
Anne adds: “It's not left but it's like social media, it's information I can't do anything with. »
She concedes fashion is by far her biggest extravaganza – despite owning three homes and having a “brilliant” full-time housekeeper, Aira, who also cooks all her meals.
Countdown bosses gave the former tabloid executive an £8,000 clothing allowance ahead of the new series, which would likely see Anne through a show.
"I'd shop at Primark if I was counting on that budget," she deadpans.
After landing the concert, she stood out by splashing on a Comme des Garçons jacket.
Emma, who calls her mum the one to be obeyed, adds: “She puts a lot of work online – Net-a-Porter boxes just popped up.
"Then she scares them away and gets very defensive if you say, 'Oh, what is that? »
“As you can imagine, she's really, really rude about it.
"If I have something come up, she just opens it and then pretends she didn't see my name on the front. It's never something sexy: H&M cotton shirts for boys. (Her two sons, Hudson, 12, and Parker, 11, to ad guru husband Liam.)
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Anne's daughter Emma shares her mother's distinctive red hair, elven features and quick wit
Emma - the result of Anne's first marriage to former Times editor Charlie Wilson - continues: "I've always loved a charity shop and can detour quite a distance for a garage sale, whereas mom would rather die than visit either.
"She's great at throwing things away. I hoard," she says. She says hoarding is a sign of weakness.
"She tells me regularly, 'Emma, you cry very easily.' It's amazing I love her, really.
“I bought my wedding dress, a gorgeous John Galliano jeweled number, on eBay – and she threw it away.
"There are ten things I'll never hear my mom say, 'Oh, I like what you're wearing!' being one of them, and a second, 'Do they have that in my size? »
“But I'm a pretty bossy mum, it turns out – after all, wild rabbits don't raise tame rabbits. »
Famous for her Queen of Mean shtick in the cult BBC series The Weakest Link, Anne must wake up what Donald Trump is left with in international diplomacy.
At the peak of the program, Anne was commanding £4m a year and flying to and from America (first class) to film Stateside.
Emma wears Anne's Sunray pleated skirt and silk top, with her own Marc Jacobs shoes and Anne wears her own Victoria Beckham dress and Yves Saint Laurent animal print belt
Emma says:
I bought my beautiful John Galliano wedding dress on eBay… Mom threw it away
Anna says:
I can really wake up every morning and think that everyone loves me [as she's not on Twitter]
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And while she won't be "asking a contestant why he's so fat" in her latest TV reincarnation, she probably won't suffer fools with pleasure.
Three times she asks me why I parked my car “slamming, banging in the middle of the road, when I spent a considerable amount of money on parking”.
And when I ask the twice-married reporter who she's now dating, she has selective hearing loss. what i'm asking you who are you going out with? »
Uh, yes Anne, frequently.
“Yeah, well, I'm not writing about it in a national newspaper. »
Contrary to her waspish reputation, the real Anne – Annie to her friends – is incredibly generous, unwaveringly loyal and fun-loving.
Four years after turning 80, she stays slim thanks to Pilates sessions three times a week, regular games of tennis – she has a court – and a personal trainer.
She looks at least ten years younger than her age, partly because of the above, partly because of one, maybe two, who knows, facelifts – which she has spoken about openly in order to s make sure other women don't feel discouraged.
Her favorite saying is "capable women have broken nails," and Anne is truly a doer. (Or she'll ask her housekeeper to do it.) And she hates cancel culture: "I don't like things are forbidden,” and also dislikes the victimized culture. You won't see Anne clamoring for comp anytime soon.
“Take ageism on TV,” she muses. “If I went for the first team at Chelsea, I would stay really fit and train. So if you want to stay on TV as woman, you do the equivalent.
"I'm not part of the Chelsea squad, but I'm not going to take Chelsea to the labor court. »
She's also never googled herself, she implausibly claims. "It's going to annoy me because everything will go wrong," she says. "I'm really nothing of myself." »
Anne uses a £2,000 gray OKA bench as a waste bin. (Presumably fine with Emma, who is a 'recycling warrior for Westminster Council'.) Anne is not on any social media, has no never watched Love Island – 'but I should probably try it' – and never been to Sainsbury's.
But it could, if pushed, extend to an occasional visit to a farm shop.
After serving photographer Dan and me a lunch of cheese pie, spinach and feta pie, and a giant cheese platter, she then explains why she refuses to join Instagram or Twitter before to start the new countdown job. "I can really wake up every morning and think that everyone loves me," she smiles.
“I find it hard to understand why the rest of you don't join me in this world.
“It's fabulous here, a perfect world that you should all be in.
"But I'm self-aware enough to know that there will be Countdown viewers who will be horrified that I'm here ruining their program.
“I'm really, really excited, though, and it's wonderful to have a goal again. »
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