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17th May 2016

Rachel Riley spelled out a dirty word on ‘Countdown’, and it made viewers titter

Naughty.

Laura Holland

When you think of a show that makes you laugh, daytime quiz show Countdown doesn’t exactly spring to mind, but it does have its moments.

Quite a few times now, letters and numbers boss Rachel Riley has to keep a straight face whenever a fairly risqué word gets spelled out on the board.

She was left red-faced recently when she had an unfortunate letter combination, and now it’s happened again.

This time, the chief dictionary wizard Susie Dent came up with a rude word while playing the game.

The letters selected for the round were:

X-H-B-L-O-U-E-M-G

The contestants guessed two five letter words from this combination – one being ‘bulge’ – but Susie said that she could beat that with a six letter word.

Susie said: “I can’t say it. Okay, let’s get it over quickly. Bumhole is there.”

Oh Susie.

Viewers, of course, loved it:

https://twitter.com/Callumchets/status/732221937049583616

Good on Rachel for being able to see the funny side:

And if you want more examples of Susie Dent’s predilection for naughty words, follow her on Twitter, where she shares lexicographical pearls like this: