ITV The Chase viewers 'outraged' as contestant makes 'shocking' blunder

The Chase viewers were near fuming connected Friday erstwhile a contestant made an unexpected error

The Chase fans were successful uproar connected Friday (February 7) arsenic a contestant suffered a staggering defeat, with 1 spectator gasping "what connected earth" astatine the shocking crook of events.

In the latest instalment of ITV's fashionable quiz show, teammates Sarah, Arash, Suzanne, and James hoped to snag a important magnitude of money.

Sarah, a 41-year-old optical advisor, kicked things disconnected by racking up £6,000 successful her currency builder round. When faced with Darragh Ennis, besides known arsenic The Menace, she opted to play it harmless with the mediate offer.

Initially answering questions confidently and maintaining a important pb implicit the chaser, who stumbled connected immoderate answers, it seemed Sarah was connected way to victory.

Host Bradley Walsh praised her efforts, saying: "Chaser remains 3 behind, 1 much and we're location and dry. Get this close and you'd really person had 2 goes astatine £30,000, truthful you're a bully player," reports Bristol Live.

However, the tables rapidly turned aft a tricky punctuation question that galore viewers claimed was "obvious". This allowed Darragh to drawback up and yet destruct Sarah from the game.

Astonished by the abrupt alteration successful fortunes, Bradley exclaimed, "I mean, I've got to beryllium honest, we were 4 ahead!" to which Sarah responded: "I conscionable got unlucky."

Darragh chimed successful with commiseration and perspective: "Yeah, you did get unlucky, but you are going to look backmost astatine that colon [question] and it'll haunt you for the remainder of your life.

"That wasn't the hard question, you should person got that one. Otherwise, you were streets ahead, you should person got home. Very unlucky."

Viewers were near gobsmacked aft Sarah's melodramatic exit from the show, and they rapidly flooded X (formerly Twitter ) with their reactions. One stunned spectator tweeted: "How connected world did she suffer that?"

Another couldn't clasp back, posting: "Absolute insane choke," and a 3rd was arsenic baffled: "What conscionable happened?"

One much instrumentality couldn't judge it, remarking: "Shocker implicit shocker the colon question was 1 of the easiest questions ever asked connected #thechase."

Darragh so deed a winning streak arsenic helium sent some Arash and Suzanne packing. The last contestant, James, had an awesome tally bagging £80,000 but was unluckily caught successful the show's nail-biting last chase.

The Chase airs weekdays astatine 5pm connected ITV1