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Chris Tarrant has revealed that he is retired.
The TV star, 78, has had an incredible career spanning 50 years and his last project was Extreme Railways on Channel 5, which ran for six series.
He is best known for presenting the ITV children’s television show Tiswas from 1974 to 1981 and the game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? from its beginnings in 1998 until 2014.
When asked if he had retired this week, Chris said the sun: ‘Yeah. I stopped.
“I mean, I think lockdown actually started to put everything into perspective and I thought: I’ve been doing this for 50 years.”
—You know, I don’t need the money, without sounding stupid. So I was thinking, why do I keep doing this?
Chris Tarrant has revealed that he is retired. The TV star, 78, has had an incredible career spanning 50 years.
As of 2020, he has only held talking head positions or interview appearances.
Chris appeared in Alan Titchmarsh’s Love Your Weekend in 2023 and a compilation show, Britain’s Favorite Sitcoms.
But since leaving TV he has focused on travel and recently visited Borneo with his wife, as well as enjoying a safari with his two eldest grandchildren.
Despite leaving TV work behind, he said he is still inundated with offers, including for The Masked Singer, which he turned down.
Last December, Chris wanted to focus more on his radio work and returned to the airwaves for the first time in over ten years.
The legendary broadcaster hosted a show on Boom Radio at 4pm on Boxing Day, playing his favorite music and chatting to special guests.
It was Tarrant’s first time presenting a Christmas radio show since leaving Capital Radio in 2004 and his first show since a special on BBC Radio 2 in 2013.
“I suddenly wanted to do a radio show again,” Tarrant said at the time. I haven’t made one in years and years. I like the Boom guys.
‘A lot of them are old friends, a lot of people I’ve worked with and know. I really like the station’s instincts about playing music, so it’s not this constant spin, spin, spin that drives me crazy as a listener and that was starting to happen when I left Capital Radio.
Tarrant began his radio career on Capital in 1984 and presented his breakfast show three years later, becoming the voice that woke up London for 17 years throughout the 80s, 90s and early 2000s.
After leaving Capital, he returned to television and fronted what would become one of the world’s biggest game shows Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?