The Chase’s Anne Hegerty hits back at anti-vaxxer after being forced to pull out of Beat The Chasers with Covid
BEAT The Chaser’s Anne Hegerty shut down an anti-vaxxer after she battled Covid when he asked why she was missing from the show.
Chasers Mark Labbett, Shaun Wallace, Jenny Ryan, Paul Sinha and Darragh Ennis were all ready and waiting to take on a new batch of contestants on Monday night.
But Anne – aka The Governess – was noticeably absent from her seat.
Anne was in fact missing from The Chase’s spin-off show Beat The Chasers due to Covid.
The star caught coronavirus and had to self-isolate when the mini-series was being filmed, meaning she had to pull out.
Star of The Chase Australia Issa Schultz, aka Super Nerd, was then brought in to fill Anne’s empty chair.
Taking to Twitter, fans admitted they were puzzled as to the 63-year-old star’s whereabouts, with Anne replying to one personally, telling him, “‘Fraid I wasn’t on this series – I didn’t start testing negative until we’d nearly finished.”
The fan turned out to be an anti-vaxxer, replying: “Covid-19 is nothing but a mild virus, if any symptoms at all. Herd immunity has done it. Plus vaccines can cause injuries. You can now claim compensation for it.”
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Anne quickly shut him down: “But I haven’t been injured at all by my three vaccines. I believe they protected me from far more serious illness. Because I am not a nutter.”
177,000 Brits have died from Coronavirus since the outbreak of the pandemic.
A World Health Organisation report reveals the UK had 109 more deaths than usual per 100,000 people in the two years.
That is lower than Germany, Italy, Spain and the US — and way below Peru, which was worst with 437 excess fatalities per 100,000.
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The UK was hit hard and early by the bug in 2020 but jabs brought a change of fortunes last year.
Dr Simon Clarke, from the University of Reading, said: “We had early access to the vaccines and we would have been in a much worse situation without them.
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“We’re not the worst affected country and we shouldn’t be – we’re one of the most developed countries in the world.”
Beat The Chasers continues at 9pm on ITV1, Tuesday May 17, 2022
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