Bradley and son Barney Walsh returned to host BBC Gladiators (Image: BBC)
and his son Barney returned to present the latest series of on Saturday night (January 18), where the athletes and amateur contenders joined them.
The show was almost thrown into chaos by the halfway mark when the father-son duo announced that the show’s contestants would now face “The Wall,” a climbing and abseiling wall where the contenders have to race to the top before a gladiator can catch them.
Barney said: “Ok, now it’s time for ‘The Wall.’ Be warned. Last series a lot of people’s shoes came off during this event but I’m sure it will be fine this time around.”
“I wouldn’t be so sure, Barnes,” Bradley bellowed as he put his hand out to catch something.
A colleague behind the camera threw a trainer towards the 64-year-old presenter, and it hit him in the face, much to everyone’s shock in the live audience.
Bradley Walsh was hit in the face with a show during the BBC show (Image: BBC)
Fortunately, the host laughed off the incident as Bradley chuckled: “I was supposed to catch that in my hand, you maniac.”
As he rubbed his eye, he commented, “That didn’t happen in rehearsal.”
He bent down to pick up the trainer, as he reiterated, “you were supposed to throw it at my hand!”
However, the problems didn’t stop there during the show as one of the contenders suffered a painful injury right after taking part on “The Wall”.
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Bradley Walsh was forced to cover his face (Image: BBC)
Bradley Walsh picked up the trainer following the cheeky incident (Image: BBC)
The contenders are given one minute to climb 30ft but receive zero points if a gladiator removes them.
Up next was Nathan and Scott who were being chased down by Legend and Viper but both were caught by the gladiators.
As Scott was taken to one side by the production staff, Bradley mused, “Oh no. I think something has happened here. He’s [Scott] hurt himself here. It looks like a dislocation.”
The contender could be seen holding his hand and later confirmed he had dislocated his finger.
Scott explained: “I dislocated my finger as soon as I got to the top. It snapped. It’s alright I just put it back in.”
He revealed he put is finger back into place backstage and was fine to continue with the show.
Gladiators is available to watch on iPlayer.