Despairing fans of Michael McIntyre’s The Wheel could not believe what they were watching last night (Saturday July 24).
And it wasn’t because a contestant or one of the celebrity advisers got a question disastrously wrong.
It was because singer Lady Leshurr did not seem to have a clue about one of the answer options to a question was.
Lady Leshurr’s ‘shocker’ on Michael McIntyre’s The Wheel
During a game with contestant Kamal, Brummie rapper Lady Leshurr stepped up to assist.
Unfortunately, however, she wasn’t much help when it came to identifying Ada Lovelace.
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The cringeworthy moment came as they took on the ‘Famous Firsts’ category.
And it left those watching at home “absolutely gobsmacked” when she wasn’t sure about what one of the options meant.
‘What’s that?’
As they considered the options, Kamal immediately ruled out the answer being ‘heart surgeon’ or ‘pirate’.
Moving onto the third of the four possible answers, Lady Leshurr asked aloud: “Suffragette, what’s that?”
“It’s the women’s movement, isn’t it?” Kamal tentatively pondered.
We might as well just throw the whole country in the bloody bin.
Nonetheless, as he took a moment to think about it, the contestant then felt more confident about it being the correct response.
The pair went on to rule out ‘computer programmer’ – and Lady Leshurr then mispronounced ‘suffragette’ as “suffra get”.
She reasoned, possibly trying to make a link with Ada’s surname, as they ran out of time: “Love makes you suffer…”
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