Victoria Coren Mitchell stepped in after one player’s X-rated blunder (Image: BBC)
Victoria Coren Mitchell abruptly stepped in as one player on Only Connect almost made an X-rated blunder.
Monday’s edition (November 25) of the show saw the Introverts take on the Crunchers. As per usual, both teams relied on patience, lateral thinking and sheer inspiration to make connections between four things that appeared at first not to be linked.
In one round, the Crunchers, made up of Ian, Chris and captain Dennis, were tasked with finding the connection between ‘Bamboozling’, ‘Scrambling for the ball at a rugby union breakdown’, ‘Eating voraciously’, and ‘Following closely and persistently’.
The trio needed all four clues to work out the link, with Dennis believing it was animal verbs.
Asked to be more specific, Dennis gave the correct answer of: “Canids or canines.”
Victoria, 52, questioned what words were being clued.
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Victoria Coren Mitchell hosted a new episode of Only Connect (Image: BBC)
Chris responded: “I think dogging, like following closely and persistently.”
Before he could finish his sentence, Victoria interjected: “It was the only definition you could think of.”
It comes after Victoria admitted that she came close to having a row with her husband on their wedding anniversary.
The host has been since 2012. On the day they were due to celebrate their long-lasting union, the pair ended up at odds.
Victoria took to X to share their dispute with her followers, writing: “Look, I’m not going to have a row with my husband on our wedding anniversary of all days.
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Victoria jumped in as one player made a comment about dogging (Image: BBC)
“But, BIZARRELY, he had never before heard the expression ‘It’s not the hen that cackles most that lays the largest egg’. He’s just laughing incredulously and implying I made it up.”
She continued: “IT IS A REALLY FAMOUS EXPRESSION, ISN’T IT? A proverb, even? I haven’t gone mad?”
Former Pointless presenter weighed in, saying: “I haven’t heard it, but it makes absolute sense.
“When I hear a hen cackling, which I do A LOT, I always think ‘oh boy, I’m going to wait around, because there is a BIG egg coming now’ and am disappointed, time and again. So it’s a useful expression for sure, although one nobody has ever heard before.”