The Chase presenter Bradley Walsh was left red-faced during Thursday’s programme after his comedic impression of Prime Minister Boris Johnson failed to land.
Bradley was assisting contestant Joy in her face-off against chaser Shaun Wallace – AKA The Dark Destroyer – in order to score a tasty £8,000.
And Joy was asked who was the author behind the 2014 book The Churchill Factor – and thankfully, she’d already read it, so knew the answer was Boris Johnson.
“It was a good book, actually!” Joy remarked, as Bradley congratulated her on her correct answer.
He joked: “That’s the answer we were looking for, yes,” in an uncanny impression of Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
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But Shaun quickly put him to rights, as he snapped: “Sounded nothing like him.”
Bradley was left desperately backtracking from his admission, as he said: “That was me doing Tony Blair with a mouthful of marbles!”
Boris’s book The Churchill Factor: How One Man Made History delved deeper into the life of former Prime Minister Winston Churchill, praising his efforts during the Second World War especially.
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Boris at the time wrote of Churchill: “He alone saved our civilisation”
It’s hardly the first time Bradley has attempted an impression of one celeb or another, having left fans in hysterics with a satirical parody of EastEnders actor Danny Dyer.
In October last year, contestant Danielle had stepped up to the podium to answer the question: “In EastEnders, which innocent character wrongly went to prison for the murder of Lucy Beale?”
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The available options were Max Branning, Phil Mitchell, or Mick Carter.
She answered Max Branning, which was correct.
Bradley couldn’t resist impersonating Max Branning actor Danny Dyer, putting on a hilarious facial expression and speaking in a husky voice.
In Thursday’s instalment of The Chase, all four of the contestants – Joy, Tebby, Chloe and Dominic – made it through to face off with Shaun during the Final Chase.
And though Shaun slipped up on a few questions, he wasn’t holding back when it came to psyching the contestants out.
He fearlessly told Tebby, who had originally wanted to go into law, “So, I put you off law, have I? Now I’m gonna put you off quizzing!”
The Chase airs weekdays from 5pm on ITV.
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