Ms Hodges, who started the under-13 girls Downham Town football team, was perhaps used to tense moments in a game.
Although this time she was assisted by a range of celebrities, all of whom were “kind and positive”, including singer Robbie Williams, who chatted to her after her performance on The Wheel.
“He was really lovely and really interested in the girls’ football team as well, which was really nice,” she said.
She praised her parents, who were “big cooks”, for helping her with the final winning answer after she remembered them talking about herbs and spices.
Asked which of four herbs had a distinct liquorice-like flavour, she chose the correct answer of tarragon.
She said the pause before the reveal “was very, very nerve-wracking”.
