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Lingo viewers in shock at Ashleigh from Big Brother appearing as contestant on ITV show

Lingo viewers got a shock on Tuesday when a former Big Brother star tried their luck on the ITV quiz show.

As he does every afternoon weekday afternoon, Good Morning Britain star Adil Ray welcomed a new batch of hopefuls to the programme, which tests players word skills as they aim to win big money.

One of the pairs taking part in the newest episode of the show, which has become quite the cult hit, were Mary and Ashleigh.

And it didn't take long for Big Brother fans watching at home to recognise Ashleigh, particularly when they heard her Irish accent.

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The first one to clock that Ashleigh was in fact Ashleigh Coyle, who finished second on Big Brother 15 back in 2014, took to Twitter to ask: "Wasn't she in big brother?"

Many others quickly followed, with a second posting: "Ashleigh from #BigBrother now on #lingo blast from the past" and another tweeted: "Are my eyes deceiving me or is that Ashleigh from BB Power Trip on Lingo??"

Big Brother star Ashleigh Coyle on Lingo (ITV)

Replying to one tweet about Ashleigh another ITV viewer wrote: "Yes, I'm sat here going, I know her from somewhere!"

While Derry native Ashleigh and mum Mary didn't reach the final of Lingo, Ashleigh made it all the way to the final of Big Brother nearly eight years ago.

She was beaten by her arch enemy in the house, Helen Wood.

Although Ashleigh spoke to Adil about competing in beauty pageants, she didn't mention anything about her Big Brother fame.

Other viewers and Adil couldn't get over the fact that Mary was Ashleigh's mum, with the host saying he thought she was her older sister.

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