Saturday Night Takeaway fans all noticed that Toni Collette suffered a slight slip of the tongue as she appeared on the show as this week’s guest announcer.
Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly returned for another instalment of Saturday Night Takeaway on ITV, with a live audience in the studio and the Hollywood star was live in the studio with the Geordie duo.
Toni was invited onto the stage to take part in a charades segment with viewers at home, which saw her guess which film each family at home was acting out, in the hopes of bagging a holiday for the hopefuls.
However, as Toni struggled to guess one film in particular – Dodgeball – viewers at home clocked she swore live on air before the watershed, saying: “Oh no, I’m going to lose it for them! S*** somebody help me!”
Taking to Twitter, fans were largely light-hearted over Toni’s blunder, as one wrote: “Toni Collette panicking and shouting ‘S***’ on Saturday Night Takeaway amused me way more than it should have.”
A second wrote: “Can always count on an Aussie to casually drop in swears on the norm,” as another exclaimed: “Whoops, she swore.”
Another tweeted: "Love the odd bit of live, pre-watershed swearing. Netflix could never."
Another penned: “OMG Toni Collette is so chaotic. I cannot believe Ant and Dec didn’t apologise for her saying ‘s***’.”
While Ant and Dec did not initially apologise to viewers for the language before the watershed, after the ad break Ant told viewers: “Sorry if you heard a little bit of bad language. Hope we didn't spoil it for you.”
The Geordie pair hit screens once again last month with a fresh instalment of the long-running series, giving ITV viewers the happiest ninety minutes of the week.
The latest series of the cheeky show has billed cameos from the nation's favourite PE teacher Joe Wicks and Strictly Come Dancing host Claudia Winkleman – as well as Alison Hammond and Rylan as the next unwitting victims of their very own Undercovers.
Yet this series of the popular Saturday night show has already attracted Ofcom complaints as disappointed viewers complained to the broadcasting regulator over a prank involving a pregnant woman which divided fans.
Viewers called the show 'distasteful', as hosts Ant and Declan played a prank on a first-time dad by creating fake footage of the 4D scan of the baby.
Ofcom's latest report notes 111 viewers have lodged complaints "related to the series of pranks played on a husband throughout his wife’s pregnancy."
ITV and presenters Ant and Dec have yet to respond to the backlash to the divisive prank.
