Studio praised by quiz mistress (From Stroud News and Journal)

Studio praised by quiz mistress

TELEVISION celebrity Anne Robinson claimed a Stroud production team was far from the weakest link in the creation of her new talking book.

The most frightening presenter on the box was in Stroud this week - and revealed she has a softer side once the cameras are switched off.

Anne Robinson, who lives just a stone's throw away outside Cirencester, was in town to put her autobiography, Memoirs of an Unfit Mother, onto tape.

Using DB Studios tucked away in Stroud's Folly Lane, Ms Robinson said she failed to understand why people bothered hiking down to London to make recordings.

"They're terrific, just incredible," she said of the staff at DB's.

"This is the most professional team I've ever worked with."

"It's a full length book so it's a lot of work - best thing of all is it's in Gloucestershire so I haven't far to travel for home."

The red-headed star explained how she had managed to squeeze the recording sessions between production of The Weakest Link in Pinewood Studios and in Hollywood.

She dismissed of her whirlwind schedule with a shrug. "It's alright," she said.

"I've no idea how I found the time to write the book," she laughed. "It was commissioned just before the Weakest Link began a year ago."

Talking about the phenomenal success of her cruel gameshow on the other side of the Atlantic, where it is winning the ratings wars, she said: "I always knew it would be a success."

The Weakest Link format has been sold to 82 different countries.

Anne laughed: "That means there are 82 middle age ladies with dyed red hair doing the show all over the world."