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Chris Tarrant has revealed he has retired.
The TV star, 78, has had an incredible 50-year career 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 founding in 1998 to 2014.
When asked if he had retired this week, Chris said The sun: ‘Yes. I’ve stopped.
“I mean, I really think that lockdown, you just started to put everything into a bit of perspective and I thought, I’ve been doing this thing for 50 years.
“You know, I don’t need the money, without sounding crazy. So I thought: why am I still doing this?’
Chris Tarrant has revealed he has retired. The TV star, 78, has had an incredible 50-year career
Since 2020, he has only recorded Talking Head slots or interview appearances.
Chris appeared in Alan Titchmarsh’s Love Your Weekend in 2023 and in a compilation show, Britain’s Favorite Sitcoms.
But since leaving TV, he has focused on travel and recently visited Borneo with his wife and enjoyed a safari with his two eldest grandchildren.
Despite leaving TV work behind, he says he is still inundated with offers, including for The Masked Singer, which he turned down.
Last December, Chris was keen to focus more on his radio work and returned to the airwaves for the first time in over a decade.
The legendary broadcaster presented a show on Boom Radio on Boxing Day at 4pm, playing some of his favorite music and talking to special guests.
It was the first time Tarrant had presented a Christmas radio show since leaving Capital Radio in 2004 and his first program since a special on BBC Radio 2 in 2013.
“I suddenly felt like doing a radio show again,” Tarrant said at the time. ‘I haven’t done it in years. I love the Boom guys.
“A lot of them are old friends, a lot of people I’ve worked with, and I know it. I really like the station’s instincts when it comes to playing music, so it’s not this constant turning, turning, turning that drives me up the wall as a listener and is what started happening when I left Capital Radio.
Tarrant started his radio career at Capital in 1984 and presented the breakfast show three years later, becoming the voice that shook up London for seventeen years in 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?.