A contestant on Lee Mack’s The 1% Club has been accused of “cheating” after viewers noticed he made a suspicious gesture to reveal the answer.
Jason Duckett, 36, who appeared on the ITV quiz show with his wife Rowena, was forced to respond to claims he cheated following an uproar from fans.
Viewers saw Jason rubbing his earlobes to seemingly signal his wife’s response, which was in fact “hear” and “hear.”
Some claimed the move was “a bit naughty”, while others openly called it “cheating”.
But after the claims sparked an investigation into the hoax, the show confirmed that Jason and Rowena were actually eliminated the moment he touched her ear.
A contestant on Lee Mack’s The 1% Club was apparently caught cheating after viewers spotted the suspicious gesture to reveal the answer.
Jason Duckett, 36 (left), who appeared on the ITV quiz show with his wife Rowena, was forced to respond to allegations he cheated following an uproar from fans.
The program tests 100 members of the public’s intelligence, common sense and logic with questions that ascend in order of difficulty according to the proportion of the general public can answer them: 90 percent, 80 percent, up to one percent .
jason said Sun: ‘I almost admire someone’s creativity to think of that because I hadn’t thought of that.
Neither of them had anything to gain. We were both out. Everything he was doing was simply to calm me down.
‘If you turn it around, you could say I have my arms crossed. Was the answer damage and weapon?
During Saturday’s show, viewers quickly spotted the potential cheating and took to X, formerly known as Twitter, to share what they saw.
The comments read: ‘Did anyone else notice this guy gave the answer when he touched both ears?’
‘Ear heard. . . I think there was a little bit of cheating at the 1% Club.
“A little naughty of Mr. Duckett to rub his ear.”
A spokesman for the 1% Club said: ‘Any game show worth its salt attracts conspiracy theories. But, fortunately, the first investigations quickly showed that there was no reason to suspect anything.’
Viewers saw Jason rubbing his earlobes to tell his wife the answer, which was in fact “hear” and “hear.”
But after the allegations sparked an investigation into the cheating, the show confirmed that Jason and Rowena were actually eliminated the moment he touched her ear.
During Saturday’s show, viewers quickly spotted the potential cheating and took to X, formerly known as Twitter, to share what they saw.
It comes after Lee previously spoke out about cancel culture, saying that no joke on any topic should be banned, as long as it’s funny enough.
The Not Going Out star said the golden rule should be that the joke should be more funny than shocking.
But he said that while that means anything is fair game in principle, in practice some topics are so sensitive that no comedian will come up with a funny enough joke.
Mack, who still writes the BBC sitcom Not Going Out but now rarely does stand-up, also said that too often jokes have now been judged without looking at the intention behind them.
He said: ‘In principle, there is nothing you can’t make a joke about, nothing. But for me, the joke has to be more funny than shocking. So, the more shocking the topic, the better the joke should be.
And there are some topics that are so shocking that no one is good enough to come up with a joke that’s more funny than shocking.
“So in principle you can make a joke about anything, but in practice you can’t because no one is that good.”