A week on the web: Nick Hewer, the new Countdown host

Nick Hewer, the PR man now better known Lord Sugar's sidekick on The Apprentice, has been named as the new host of Countdown . He will join Channel 4's longest-running show on 9 January 2012, and replaces Jeff Stelling, who will presumably be moving on to spend more time with his football. It's a tough gig. Indeed many would argue original host Richard Whitely was irreplaceable. His successors in the chair, Des Lynam, Des O'Connor and Stelling, certainly haven't been universally popular. So how did the web react to Hewer's big-money transfer? Let us solve that conundrum for you... [Please note: the rest of this column is put together using Storify, which is not viewable on m.guardian.co.uk. It can also take a while to load on guardian.co.uk. If that happens, click here to go to Storify itself.] View the story "A week on the web: Nick Hewer, the new Countdown host " on Storify ]