He was in dictionary corner when he offered up the seven-letter word “todgers” – much to the amusement of host Nick Hewer and his sidekick Rachel Riley!
It was left to dictionary corner supremo Susie Dent to explain that the word could have counted because it IS in the dictionary.
It is not the first time the show has struggled with rude words: 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 different five-letter words.
