Presenter Bradley Walsh was forced to cut off a contestant on The Chase after he gave a seemingly never-ending explanation for one of his answers.
On tonight’s (24.01.20) episode of the hit ITV quiz show, pharmacist Vinny was the first of his team to step up and face chase Shaun Wallace.
He was asked what the word hebetudinous means when used to describe a person, with the options being either dull, dainty or dirty.
Vinny went with dirty and explained: “I was thinking of the ‘hebe’ bit, all I can think of at the moment is, plants. The hebe plant.”
“The heebie jeebies?” Brad joked.
“Which do grow…” Vinny continued. “When you prune them, you… have to prune them regularly, to get new growth.”
“Oh right, yeah…” Bradley mumbled, looking bored and keen to press on.
Vinny said: “And they get new growth, in winter…”
Yes! Yes, I got it.
Bradley put in: “Yeah, yeah…”
With no end in sight for Vinny’s explanation, the contestant went on: “Winter and spring. They start to look a bit untidy, and that’s what I think it comes from-“
But at that point, Bradley was forced to interrupt him, demanding with a laugh: “Have you finished, Vin?”
“I think,” Vinny said. “Yeah. Dirty. To do with the fact that-“
Unable to let him continue, Bradley cut him off and shouted: “Yes! Yes, I got it.”
In the end, the correct answer was dull. Reacting on Twitter, one viewer wrote: “Bloody hell Vinny, you should have deffo got that! #TheChase #dull.”
Another wrote: “Dull very ironic #thechase.”
Someone else said: “The irony of hebetudinous meaning dull #TheChase.”
Bloody hell Vinny, you should have deffo got that!! #TheChase #dull
— Drew Tabori (@DrewTabori) January 24, 2020
Dull very ironic #thechase
— Cornish girl (@janetpascoedean) January 24, 2020
The irony of hebetudinous meaning dull #TheChase
— Graceless (@MissGraceless) January 24, 2020
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