You’re the prettiest link - Goodbye

Julie Gilbert • Published 18 Aug 2010 14:00

A STUNNING Bankie beauty who appeared on The Weakest Link was voted off immediately for being too young and pretty.

Allana Henry, 21, from Duntocher, who is part of cheerleading group the Champion Dance and Cheer All Stars, appeared alongside eight other people on the BBC show last week.

The episode was part of a special on alternative champions from non-mainstream activities and included toe wrestlers, pie eaters and beard growers.

But Allana did not have to put up with too much cheek from viper-tongued host Anne Robinson after she was rapidly dispatched by an envious pole dancer, who before the show had been acting friendly.

Allana said: “It was embarrassing getting voted off first, but I wasn’t taking it too seriously.

“[The pole dancer] was meant to be my pal - she’d been really nice to me and then she voted me off, but it was funny.”

She added: “All the contestants are put in a room where you chat to them and get to know them. We didn’t get to see Anne Robinson at all. It was just on the show that we saw her.

“She was a wee bit cheeky to me but she wasn’t as bad as I thought she was going to be.

“She said ‘you don’t need any general knowledge to be a cheerleader’ and I just said ‘I know’.

“I thought she was quite cheeky to the pole dancer, she said to her ‘when did you become a man’ because she was quite muscly.

“It was nerve-racking but I laugh when I’m nervous and I couldn’t stop laughing.”

The alternative champions episode of The Weakest Link was part of a series of specials filmed to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the show.

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