Bradley Walsh shares ingenious way he 'cheated' to land his job on ITV’s The Chase

31.01.2022 - 21:17 / ok.co.uk

The Chase host Bradley Walsh has shared how he “cheated” to get his job on the ITV quiz show. Presenter Bradley, 61, has hosted gameshow The Chase since 2009, but has admitted in a new interview he fooled bosses into thinking he was smarter than he was to land the gig. Bradley was joined by Dancing On Ice champion Sonny Jay on Capital Breakfast with Roman Kemp, where he made the admission.

Sonny asked Bradley: “I have to ask you, Bradley, obviously you do The Chase, now you must have so much knowledge and have learned so much from doing the show. We've had loads of Chasers on the show to take on ‘Roman’s Mega Hard Super Quiz’. “However, do you think that you might be able to outsmart them on something on your subject? Have you got a subject where you think ‘actually I don't think they would know the answer to that’?” Get exclusive celebrity stories and fabulous photoshoots straight to your inbox with OK!'s daily newsletter.

You can sign up at the top of the page. Bradley then went on to describe how during the early days of the show he “cheated” his way onto the show: “You know what, I don't. I've gotta fess up as well.

When we first did the job, the only two choices that were first there were actually The Beast and The Dark Destroyer, right? And we were doing an office run through, and this is to get the job up and running. And I said ‘this is ludicrous. these questions are so easy.’” “And they said ‘what do you think you could beat the Chaser?’ I said “if I beat the Chaser, we'll make a series, let's do that.” Bradley continued: “And this is absolutely true - what they didn't realise was the sheets with the questions and the answers on were lying face down on my end of the desk, I could see the print through and I