Richard Madeley has admitted that Anne Hegerty is not his “favourite person” after a crushing defeat on a celebrity special of The Chase.
In the celebrity version of the popular ITV game show, hosted by Bradley Walsh, four celebs take to the panel to face a Chaser in the hopes of taking home some cash for their chosen charities.
During the entertainment news segment of Good Morning Britain, the 65-year-old TV presenter and his co-host Kate Garraway heard from Vick Hope about Shaun Wallace and Anne Hegert’s DNA Journey programme.
The Governess, 63, discovered she's related to royalty in ITV's documentary, prompting Richard to add: “She’s not my favourite person at the moment.”
He then explained: “I was on The Chase on Saturday and we nearly got a lot of money for charity and she caught me in the last two seconds. We nearly got it, but she caught me.”
But one viewer fumed over the admission, suggesting it could have been an enormous spoiler.
Taking to Twitter, they wrote: “Richard just gave away his The Chase outcome live on TV."
However, it’s unclear whether Richard was referring to a new taping of the Celebrity Chase Special, or show which aired as a repeat over the weekend.
In the instalment, Richard appeared in an all-star line up for a special celebrity edition of ITV's The Chase.
Bradley Walsh hosted as celebrity contestants EastEnders actor Perry Fenwick, comedian Jenny Eclair, TV presenter Ore Oduba and Good Morning Britain's Richard pitted their wits against Chaser Anne in the hope of winning a potential prize pot worth thousands of pounds.
Elsewhere on Wednesday’s programme, Richard entered hot water during a conversation on National Health Service funding.
The 65-year-old ITV presenter sat alongside Kate Garraway and were joined by journalist commentators Kevin Maguire and Andrew Pierce in the studio, as well as Dr Hilary Jones.
Host Richard posed the question of whether the “great sprawling web called the NHS needs root and branch reform”, which Kevin immediately took issue with.
He replied: “It’s very pejorative to call it a big sprawling web. That’s how people begin to demonise it and run it down.”
But the ITV host later responded saying he would put himself “in the firing line”, saying to Kevin: “If somebody like me, without an agenda, is going to say, is it time we took a root and branch look at how it’s funded, to then say that’s demonising the NHS shuts down discussion.”
Good Morning Britain airs weekdays at 6am on ITV.
