Countdown 'erection' answers spark giggles and blushes during filming

 
Rude words: Countdown presenter Rachel Riley with the contestants answer (Picture: PA)
Alexandra Rucki16 April 2015

Fits of giggles erupted on set during filming of today's episode of Countdown after two contestants came up with the same slightly rude eight-letter solution.

Host Nick Hewer struggled to suppress laughter as Dubliner Gerry Tynan and Anne Lewin, from Brighton, both came up with erection for their answer to the word game.

Celebrity guest, Dr Phil Hammond, who was in dictionary corner with Susie Dent, saved the day by offering the nine letter word recondite, the episode, due to be aired this afternoon.

It is not the first time rude words have been given as answers by contestants.

Last year Hairy Biker Dave Myers offered up the seven-letter word todgers much to the amusement of Hewer and Rachel Riley.

In 2010 the presenters were left red-faced when the letters U, D, F, C, K and E all came up in a selection but the contestants resisted the temptation to go for the obvious and instead submitted the five letter words caged and faced.

The Channel 4 afternoon show, which has been running since the station launched in 1982, recently picked up a Guinness world record after it reached its 6,000th edition.

The words and number contest was launched with late presenter Richard Whiteley at the helm and has also been fronted by Des Lynam and Jeff Stelling.

Countdown is on Weekdays at 2.10pm on Channel 4.

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