Konnie Huq has admitted she has no idea how she became a TV presenter and feels too uncool to stay in touch with some of her telly chums.
The former Blue Peter presenter is hosting a new show, King Of The Nerds, which pits the country’s most fact-filled minds against each other and said that she thought more female nerds were needed in the public eye.
She said: “People like me don’t become TV presenters. I always used to think, ‘How did I become a TV presenter?’ Something went wrong somewhere down the path. I’m bluffing this whole thing.
“In telly, you meet loads of people who are really cool, and I’m never comfortable to be friends with them outside of work. I don’t want to name names, but there have been people I’ve really got on with, really nice people, and you go abroad to film with them and you’re like, ‘We’re all best friends’.
“[But] It’s a bit like a holiday romance for me. I’m not the sort of person who’s going to go to the Groucho Club or Glastonbury. I don’t really do cool things.”
Konnie added: “Weirdly, I think I’m really confident with people I know, but when I’m in a group of strangers, I crumble.
“There are a lot of nerdy girls out there, but there’s more pressure in society for girls not to be nerdy.
“Girls often fancy nerdy blokes, more than blokes fancy nerdy girls. It’s much easier to think of Jarvis Cocker and your attractive bloke nerds in indie bands, but can you think of a girl nerd? We need to bring in a trendy nerd-girl image.”
King Of The Nerds starts on Sky 1 on Sunday, July 12
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