Countdown's Susie Dent reflects on spending 30 years on the show
"We all have days whose importance we fail to realise at the time. For me, it was June 29, 1992, when I took my place for the first time in Dictionary Corner as"Alongside me was the immaculate, behind whose luxuriant hair I desperately tried to hide. The evidence of that first day — saved forever on YouTube — shows all too clearly that, however much I longed to look poised and knowledgeable, this newbie was a bag of nerves.
"If anyone had told me then that I'd be occupying the same seat 30 years later, I'd have thought them utterly bonkers. "Yet, here I am, still loving what is surely the very best gig on British television — and still feeling the adrenaline every time the clock starts ticking down."
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