Anne Robinson

Anne Robinson is the host of Weakest Link, Mondays at 8 p.m. on NBC.

Q. Why are you such a bitch?

A. I don't think any working journalist should be phony enough to pretend that anything I say on Weakest Link is anything different from what they've heard in their average newsroom.

Q. I wonder what the people at my office are saying about me right now.

A. I would think they are saying that you are annoyingly good-looking.

Q. So insult the contestants and kiss up to the journalists, huh?

A. Not at all. I root for young women without a college education. The guys answer quickly and with enormous certainty, particularly when it's the wrong answer.

Q. We do everything too quickly.

A. You come out of the womb with your mother telling you how terrific you are, and you just go on believing it.

Q. How much do you think you could pull per hour as a dominatrix?

A. I don't think I'd go out the door for less than $10,000 an hour.

Q. You're being investigated by the North Wales police for calling the Welsh "irritating and annoying." When did the Welsh becomes such wusses?

A. Because of foot-and-mouth, the Welsh tourist board asked me to pose with a T shirt saying WALES IS OPEN FOR EASTER, so we called it quits now. I thought it was an intelligent thing to do.

Q. Yeah. For the Welsh.

A. It must have been thought out by the one Welshman with a sense of humor.

Q. Your show gets huge ratings in England, but England, come on.

A. It's up against Millionaire. We beat Millionaire in the ratings.

Q. But they don't have Reege.

A. No. Because they like to stay awake.

--By Joel Stein