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By Steven McIntosh
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image captionAnne Robinson on the set of Channel 4 s Countdown with Rachel Riley (left) and Susie Dent
Anne Robinson might be the first female presenter of Countdown, but it s probably best you don t draw that to her attention. When Channel 4 said to me you ll be the first woman , I groaned, because I was rather hoping we d got past the stage of being completely astonished that a woman can do the same job as a man, she says ahead of her debut. Maybe we haven t. You might as well say I m the first presenter of Countdown who s got O-negative blood.
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