The Chase: Former contestant hired as ITV show’s new competitive quizzer

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy A former contestant on The Chase has joined the show as its newest competitive quizzer. Darragh Ennis, a postdoctoral researcher, appeared on ITV’s daytime quiz programme in March 2017, impressing fans by bringing £9,000 to the table, only to be low-balled by minus offers from his fellow players which left the team with a communal cash prize of £2700. Well the ones I win anyway.” Ennis was welcomed to the team by fellow Chaser Paul Sinha, who tweeted: “The night before they producers told us, Anne and Mark and I sat at dinner and pondered ‘Could it be a former contestant’. ” Ennis will join Sinha, as well as Mark Labbett, Shaun Wallace, Anne Hegerty and Jenny Ryan, who currently serve as the show’s quiz champions, or Chasers, going head to head with the contestants in an attempt to stop them winning the cash prize.