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Sally Magnusson reveals dad’s famous Mastermind chair has pride of place in her house

(The Courier)
(The Courier)

BROADCASTER Sally Magnusson has revealed her dad’s famous Mastermind chair has been given pride of place in her house.

The iconic black chair was a central part of the famous BBC quiz show during Magnus Magnusson’s 25 years at the helm. His daughter, a BBC Scotland news anchor and author, inherited it after he died in 2007, and it is now the “centrepiece” of the living room at the farmhouse she shares with husband Norman Stone, in East Dunbartonshire.

The BBC Reporting Scotland newsreader described the leather chair as “very comfortable” and a popular talking point among her friends.

She said: “You can see where the armrests have been worn away by sweaty, anxious fingers.”

Icelandic-born journalist and broadcaster Magnus was the original host of Mastermind when it launched in 1972, and Ms Magnusson, now 62, would be teased at school with the catchphrase, “I’ve started so I’ll finish.”

The chair was given to him when he left the programme in 1997, and passed on to his eldest daughter after his death 10 years later.

Ms Magnusson even hosted a special literary edition of Mastermind herself – when she took the famous armchair to a book festival in the Borders in 2012.