Anne Robinson is moving to London due to concerns for her health after 40 years of living in the Cotswolds.
The former Weakest Link and Countdown presenter has decided to move out of her Grade II-listed converted barn to an apartment overlooking Hyde Park a few streets away from her daughter, broadcaster Emma Wilson, and her two grandchildren, Hudson and Parker.
Robinson, 81, said she will be sad to go but told The Times: “I just know that it will be sadder if they take me out of here in an ambulance.”
“I run, do weights and Pilates, but I just can’t legislate for the next five years.
”I don’t want Emma sitting at lunch saying to someone, as people say to me, ‘Oh my mother, you know she’s in Somerset and now the carer’s gone off sick – I’m having to drive for an hour and a half when there’s a crisis’.”
Robinson has owned homes in London before, but this is the first time she will be moving to the city permanently in decades.
The veteran broadcaster, who has give up driving due to her worsening eyesight, said her daughter will teach her how to use the Tube.
She added that she’s excited to be able to walk to lunch with friends instead of relying on others to drive her.
Elsewhere in the interview, Robinson was asked if she is still dating the Queen’s ex-husband Andrew Parker Bowles, to which she quipped: “None of your business!”
Alongside her 18th-century Cotswolds barn, Robinson owns properties on Fifth Avenue in New York, as well as in the Hamptons.
She bought her Cotswolds home, then a dilapidated farm, for £1 million from a farmer in 2006 - two years after she had a £9,000 facelift. The presenter spent two years renovating it and is now selling it for £4.5 million.
Robinson’s move comes after she revealed she has “spread” her £50 million fortune to her daughter and grandchildren to prevent it from going to the “taxman”.
“I’ve given it all away – I don’t want the taxman to have it,” she told Saga in 2024. “I’ve spread it about quite a lot, to the children. They may as well enjoy it now.”
The broadcaster admitted she has “genuinely no idea” if she is worth £50million but insisted she doesn't “want for much” and “can't think there's anything I really want except my good health and the family happiness”.
Inheritance tax is levied at 40 per cent on an individual's estate exceeding £325,000 in value, although there are exemptions.
The UK’s “seven-year rule” states that if a beneficiary receives an inheritance gift less than seven years before the bestower’s death, they still pay inheritance tax.
Robinson welcomed her daughter Emma with her ex-husband Charles Wilson. She was married to the former journalist and newspaper executive until their divorce in 1973.
