Student Advisor Appears on the Weakest Link

Set your video recorders and schedule your Sky Plus as a woman from Canterbury joins Anne Robinson on The Weakest Link.

Hazel Stokes, a Student Advisor at Canterbury College said: “I have watched the show ever since it first started and I have always wanted to be on it. I have applied several times and this time I finally made it.” She got a call in January inviting her to be on the show and in February she went up to London and spent the day in the TV studios with the ice queen of game shows Anne Robinson.
 
Anne Robinson is renowned worldwide for the cutting comments from its infamous hostess and when asked about nerves Hazel said: “I was nervous while I waited to go on, but they went away when the questions started as I needed to focus.” She added: “I found the questions quite easy, but I was lucky as most of them were questions that I knew the answer to. There were a few that I got wrong, I think there was one about the Incas and one about cough medicine, but you’ll have to wait and see how I did in the show’.
 
Hazel said: “It was a really great experience. I have met many stars over the years and been on TV before and although we did not get to meet Anne one-on-one, when she came on she knew lots about us and even asked me about Canterbury College. She was a really nice lady.”
 
The ice cold glare of Anne Robinson was no match for Hazel as she is no stranger to the limelight or stars. The Weakest Link is not her only TV appearance, over the past ten years she has also appeared on Wheel of Fortune, The People Verses and Sale of The Century.
 
Hazel is not just an avid TV contestant; she has also worked part-time at The Marlowe Theatre for nearly twenty years and has collected over 300 pictures of herself with countless celebrities. One of her earliest photographs was taken with Adam Faith and one of her more recent additions was with TV host and pantomime star Stephen Mullhern.
 
In 2006, Stephen Bull a writer and lecturer at Portsmouth University published a collection of Hazel’s photographs in a book entitled ‘Meeting Hazel Stokes’ and Canterbury College has a copy in the Student Information Centre.
 
Hazel would have recorded her latest TV appearance on the TV/Video combo that she won on Wheel of Fortune in 1999, but sadly due to years of heavy TV taping, she finally replaced it last year with a state-of-the-art DVD machine.
 
The show will hit our screens at 5.15pm on Thursday 24 April on BBC 1.

Update...

Download video snippet of Hazel's appearance on The Weakest Link.