Joyce Thorpe-Apps was auditioning for The Weakest Link on TV when a gang raided the bookmakers in Eastbourne where she worked.
She asked the BBC to call 999 and refused to hand over the keys of the safe to the four robbers.
After all that, she got on The Weakest Link and Anne Robinson didn't seem terrifying at all.
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