OHMYGOSSIP — ‘Countdown’ presenter Anne Robinson managed to keep a straight face when the conundrum spelt ‘SPERMTEST’.
The long-running Channel 4 daytime quiz got a bit cheeky when the final challenge – in which the answer was temptress – displayed a rude word, but the former ‘Weakest Link’ host managed to keep it together on Thursday’s show (10.02.22).
The 77-year-old veteran broadcaster began: “Let’s reveal today’s Countdown conundrum.”
The inappropriate word then flashed up on the screen and didn’t go unnoticed in the show’s Dictionary Corner.
Anne then asked if “anyone in the studio” got it before comedian Geoff Norcott offered up the incorrect solution of ‘temperaments’ as his answer.
He then quipped to the presenter: “I should have thought of you.”
The threat of rude words appearing on the quiz have always been something minefield as Carol Vorderman – who handled the letters and numbers on the show until 2009 – recently revealed she named her mansion after a spoof anagram from a sketch by Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry as it was cheekily used on the programme.
The 61-year-old maths whizz revealed her named her home ‘Sloblock Hall’.
She explained: “Sloblock became our ‘Countdown’ swear word. I named my house Sloblock Hall.
“I never thought I’d get the name past the council naming committee but I did because I didn’t tell them what it meant. Life’s too short. Made me laugh every time I went through the gates.”
Carol added an emotional farewell on Instagram when she moved out of the property.
She said: “Today I sold and said goodbye to a house I kinda built 15 years ago….the house of a thousand parties. Goodbye my happy place….. So many wicked parties…..so so many brilliant memories. I’m a lucky woman. And now I’m moving on to yet more new adventures. Wishing the new family who call you home now every happiness and health and laughter. Cheers SLOBLOCK. We had a blast. (sic)”
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