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With Anne Robinson having announced this week that she\u2019s set to step down as Countdown host<\/a>\u00a0after less than a year in the job, there have been lots of rumours and suggestions as to who might take over as the new presenter on the popular game show.<\/p>\n One name that\u2019s been mentioned as a possible replacement is someone who\u2019s by no means a stranger to the programme: former numbers expert Carol Vorderman, who The Sun<\/a> recently reported is a top choice for the role among show bosses.<\/p>\n But former host Nick Hewer, who presented the show for almost a decade between 2012 and 2021, reckons she might not be the right choice, in part because she\u2019s too closely associated with another job on the programme.<\/p> Asked about the possibility in an exclusive interview with RadioTimes.com<\/a>, he said: \u201cI\u2019ve been on her show a couple of times, she\u2019s got a [BBC] Radio Wales show.<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t know whether there would be a sort of conflict in a way because both she and Rachel [Riley] did the same job. So I don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n \u201cI think she\u2019s a very popular woman, but I would have thought that it would slightly confuse the audience, which is a very faithful audience, [with] some people watching it for years and years.<\/p>\n He added, \u201cI just think that there might be \u2013 people might be a bit confused.\u201d<\/p>\n For her part, Vorderman recently said it would be \u201can honour\u201d to return to the show and thanked fans for their comments, but appeared to distance herself from the gig by wishing luck to the future host.<\/p>\n \u201cI want to wish whoever is the lucky human to be the new host all the love and 9 letter words in the world,\u201d she wrote on Twitter.<\/p>\n Thank you to all of you saying such lovely things about a possibility of me returning to Countdown. You’re very kind & it would be an honour \u2764\ufe0f