A gobsmacked Lee Mack called a halt to Saturday's edition of The 1% Club, as he demanded to know more about a player's bizarre confession on what she'd spend her prize money on.
The popular ITV game show continued its new run this weekend, hot on the heels of the latest episode of Britain's Got Talent and with comedian Lee once again at the helm.
As well as trying to help them with plenty of money, Lee likes to get to know his contestants just that little better, but he was left regretting talking to one of them, a woman called Ellie-Mae, as she gave a bit too much information about one of her pets.
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After rubbing Lee up the wrong way by calling him 'cherub,' Ellie then told the presenter that, before she went on the show, her boyfriend told her how he really wanted to go to Paris, but then added: "Sod that! I'm going to buy a bunch of lizards." Then, when quizzed on why she's spend any cash she won on lizards, Ellie replied: "Because, I really like reptiles, I absolutely love them. But since the energy crisis, I can't afford to house them; because they need like heating and lighting etc."
And it was when Lee enquired as to whether Ellie already had some pet lizards that she came back with a response that no-one ever expected to hear, explaining: "This is the sad bit. I did have a beautiful little leopard gecko called Stevie, but it was all very traumatic because...her anus fell out!"
Lee exclaimed: "What?!" before interrupting Ellie as she began to elaborate, telling her: "Woah, woah, just slow down a bit here! You had a gecko and its anus fell out? Keep talking because this is perfect ITV light entertainment!"
Ellie then continued: "It did get me out of uni for the day/ I had to ring up and say 'I can't come in, I need to take my pet gecko to the vets to have emergency surgery on a prolapsed anus' and no further questions were asked."
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