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Springwatch's Chris Packham has viewers in stitches over 'dodgy' snake tongue comments

Springwatch presenter Chris Packham had viewers in stitches with his 'dodgy' x-rated comments during a segment about snake tongues.

The 62-year-old was co-hosting alongside Michaela Strachan when the veteran presenter left fans in hysterics with his NSFW innuendo on Wednesday night.

Chris stood behind a wooden board which had a large cutout of a grass snakehead as he explained why the reptiles have forked tongues. During the demonstration, he said to Michaela: "Would you peel off my face please?"

He continued: "What I'm going to do, is I'm going to put my tongue through here and demonstrate how it works.

The comments came during a segment about snakes tongues (BBC)

"My tongue would never be long enough, so I have another appendage which has been adapted."

The camera angle added to the "dodgy" comments as he mimicked the snake's tongue by putting his arm in a long black glove and had two fingers acting as the forks.

The wildlife expert reached down between his legs with his 'snake tongue' to show how snakes use two scent glands to sniff out food. Chris then wiggled fingers around, which had viewers taking to social media to share their amusement.

One person commented: "That camera angle and the placement of where Chris’s hand was looked rather erm dodgy for a min there."

'My tongue would never be long enough, so I have another appendage which has been adapted' (BBC)

Another said: "Bloody Hell, I was wondering what Chris Packham was going to poke through that hole!"

A third added: "Ooooh that looks dodgy Chris #Springwatch."

Chris was recently awarded £90,000 in libel damages after articles on the Country Squire Magazine website accused him of lying to raise funds for a charity.

A judge ruled the Springwatch presenter had been subjected to an online smear campaign.

Asked if had any regrets about "taking on the bullies", he told Mirror : "No, no, that’s my job. There are a lot of people who don’t have the capacity to take on people who are doing them enormous harm with online abuse and I am very fortunate to have that capacity.

"It’s an ill in contemporary society that does enormous harm to a lot of people and it’s something we have to address.

"We can’t have people being abused, particularly young people at a sensitive time of their lives."

Chris also said his new role as president of the RSPCA would have delighted his late mum.

He added: "When I was I was a kid, we used to go to a newsagents called Eliot’s and there was an RSPCA collection box... every time, I would ask my mum if I could have a penny to put in it. It was a thing we always did. It was a ritual."

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