The Chase’s Anne Hegerty reveals the challenges she faces in finding love

Although Anne Hegerty excels at handling the rapid-fire questions on The Chase, she confesses that her romantic life presents more of a challenge.

In a recent interview with The Sun, the 66-year-old quizmaster revealed that despite having her fair share of admirers, she lacks the energy for relationships

“Let’s say I would not be short of offers if I went looking,” she told the publication.

“But I am happy with my own company, I’ve had relationships go wrong precisely because I could not devote the mental energy to it, and I just thought ‘no, no, no, this is not a good idea’.

“I find men make such great friends — so let’s keep them like that.”

Although Hegerty finds the joy of her own company more than enough that hasn’t stopped speculation regarding her relationship status.

In a recent interview with The Express, Hegerty opened up about the reference to an unknown “husband” that appeared on her Wikipedia page out of the blue, telling the publication that “he’s out there somewhere”.

For a number of years, the page has stated that the popular quizmaster is married to a man named Jake.

“My brother didn’t help because he said to me, ‘I want to meet this guy’,” she told the publication.

“I’m like ‘No. This is not somebody I know’.

“I imagine he exists.

“It’s too odd a name to make up. I imagine he exists and he’s out there somewhere.

“Either he vandalised the page or somebody he knows did.”

While Hegerty is reportedly single, she did recently open up about the close bond that exists among her fellow quizmasters on The Chase.

During a previous interview with The Express, Hegerty peeled back the curtain on her off-screen relationship with her fellow Chasers revealing a bond that is as strong as the competition that exists on the popular game show.

“We get on well,” she told the publication.

“If someone is having a bad time, if someone [a chaser] was losing a lot, we’d kind of be very reassuring because it could be any of us.

“And we do socialise a lot. Especially when Mark [Labett] is down. Mark is probably the Chaser I know best.

“When he’s filming there’s a restaurant we go to where they know us and people don’t eavesdrop.”

Hegerty even revealed the Chasers are all part of a secret chat group where they often air their grievances about the show’s producers.

“We have WhatsApp. We have one WhatsApp group that’s got the producers in and another one that hasn’t got the producers in so we can b**** about them,” she revealed.