The Chase star reveals one big ritual after suffering crushing loss on ITV series

The Chase stars are highly competitory quizzers so losing doesn’t precisely thrill them, truthful they’ve developed a strategy to help.

Having specified a immense arsenal of wide cognition stored successful their brains means that losing is simply a rarity, truthful erstwhile it happens, they are keen to analyse the concern to effort to forestall aboriginal repetition.

While ITV wants losses to keep the programme interesting, the chasers bash each they tin to debar it by repeatedly watching the episode.

Paul Sinha, besides known arsenic The Sinnerman, was beaten by tutor Karen and magician Ian – the brace took location 100k for achieving the awesome feat, successful an occurrence that aired past week, and he’s already rewound it ‘again and again and again and again’.

‘You don’t get amended arsenic a chaser if you don’t ticker what you did wrong,’ helium told Metro.co.uk astatine The National Television Awards.

After his rewatch, Paul, 54, determined that it each came down to him interrupting 1 question. ‘It was conscionable that 1 mistake. If I hadn’t done that, I’d person won the game,’ helium deciphered.

However, helium doesn’t springiness himself excessively overmuch of a hard clip erstwhile his competitors are talented: ‘If a squad plays good and they bushed you, I’m comparatively okay. But if a squad don’t bash excessively good and they triumph due to the fact that I was bad, past I’m precise annoyed.

‘We’re besides alert that we ne'er suffer the assemblage volition hatred it,’ helium added.

Being truthful analytical besides means he’s been capable to prime up connected different signals, specified arsenic big Bradley Walsh’s ‘tick’.

‘You commencement to enactment retired Bradley’s code of voice. Sometimes helium makes a small look erstwhile the question’s astir to beryllium brutal. He doesn’t cognize he’s doing it,’ Paul shared.

Darragh Ennis revealed helium employs a akin method to Paul aft a loss, and volition besides walk hours watching backmost episodes arsenic grooming for a caller series, and not conscionable his own.

‘I’ve watched each azygous last pursuit determination has ever been connected The Chase,’ helium stated.

While helium whitethorn beryllium the newest subordinate of the pack – which besides includes Jenny Ryan, Mark Labbett, Shaun Wallace, and Anne Hegerty – aft joining successful 2020, he’s rapidly established himself arsenic a cardinal player.

He primitively recovered his mode onto the series arsenic a contestant 3 years earlier, and his show was truthful awesome that helium yet crossed the level and bagged himself a spot arsenic a imperishable addition.

In his archetypal episode, the 43-year-old won £9000 successful his cash-builder circular and past was capable to marque it backmost to the sheet by answering capable questions correctly erstwhile facing The Sinnerman.

His 3 co-stars each took little figures to beryllium a measurement person to home, including 2 minus offers, truthful successful the last chase, contempt putting successful a stellar show and winning, helium had £1,575 to amusement for it – inactive a beauteous chunk of cash for a day’s work.

Of course, it paid disconnected successful the agelong tally and helium got a imperishable position, but the bosses kept 1 cardinal item from him until the cameras started signaling – his sanction connected the series.

His archetypal instauration revealed that helium was to beryllium called The Menace. ‘I had nary prime but to smile,’ helium recalled.

Darragh continued: ‘I was blessed with it, but honestly, I would person worn a chickenhearted suit to beryllium successful that seat. They could person called maine whatever. I conscionable wanted to get connected the telly.’

The Chase has been connected the aerial for 15 years and just won the daytime grant astatine the NTAs. Bradley declared: ‘Here’s to different 15 years’ aft picking up the gong.

The Chase airs connected ITV1 astatine 5:00pm connected weekdays.

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