Countdown contestant pulled off W**KER answer

It's happened on Countdown before, and it will happen again, but this was the first time new host Nick Hewer came up against a rude word on the Channel 4 show.

A contestant recently spotted the word w**ker among the letters "R, A, E, P, K, W, A, E, N" and was only too happy to point it out for six, even though bosses beeped it out.

Hewer, looking for guidance on what to do when confronted by a rude word asked Dictionary corner: "Where does Mark stand on this....?"

But Susie Dent pointed out that as the word is in the dictionary, he was fine.