Paxman To Step Down

[goodgoalie]

Jeremy Paxman is stepping down as host of University Challenge after 28 years .Any thoughts on who might replace him?

Oh please, just not Sandi Toksvig!

[andy-hughes]

Prudie - // She is almost unbearable on Only Connect and 80% men just appreciate her ample bosom. //

Where did you get that statistic from?

Your rather spiteful imagination would be my first guess.

[andy-hughes]

Prudie - // And it's not even your thread ... //

It's no-one's thread, they don't belong to any one individual.

[Bazile]

Well you lot - don't bet on any of the suggestions so far ; or you'll lose your shirts .

I have it from someone on the inside that talks are at a pace already with Ann Robinson' s agent

[Hazlinny]

^^ Really hope you are joking!

[Bazile]

^^^
I never joke about matters , such as this

[Stargazer]

Dominic Cummings

[Stargazer]

Jon Snow

[JBW1366]

Huw Edwards? Stephen Fry? Rita Chakrabarti?

[Bazile]

Crikey , i didn't realise it's been that long ,since Paxo has been hosting it

[Hopkirk]

Please, not Anne Robinson!

[Canary42]

Any young recent graduate beginning to make his way in the media (rather like BG was).

There is nobody amongst the current mob who comes anywhere near it IMHO.

[FatticusInch]

AR isn’t fast enough now for UC, that’s why Countdown was probably her last.
Can’t see it myself, they’ve got to look long term.

[Bazile]

Someone who wears baggy trousers and talks fast

[Prudie]

I wasn't going to return to this thread but I have been festering all afternoon about Andy Hughes calling me spiteful. I have even told my husband and he wants to know where you live. It was a truly mean thing to say.

To answer where I got the stat from it was this site which is the only place I have seen her discussed. Put her into the search bar and read through the many threads that come up, have a look at how many refer to her physical attributes. 80 % was not a bad guess. I remain quite affronted.

[douglas9401]

Not half as fronted as our Victoria though, eh, eh?

[Prudie]

Exactly Douglas which AH presumably thinks I'm jealous of.

[barry1010]

It definitely won't be Anne Robinson

[roopower]

Not sure about Richard Osman, he's just given up the weekday Pointless programmes to concentrate on his writing, apparently. Not sure he'd be right for the job anyway.

[DTCwordfan]

Magnus Magnusson.....

[DTCwordfan]

More seriously Emily Maitlis.....