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Countdown conundrum unleashes Jeff Stelling's inner Frankie Howerd

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A funny thing happened on the way to the conundrum. Photograph: ITV / Rex Features

Along with BBC Radio 4 presenters struggling to pronounce the word "hunt", Channel 4's Countdown can invariably be relied upon to provide a cheap laugh or two. And so it proved with yesterday's conundrum on the teatime show, the scrambled up nine-letter word which just happened to spell "LARGEBAPS". Even better – or worse, depending on your point of view, the solution turned out to be ... "GRASPABLE". Frankie Boyle – or should that be Frankie Howerd – has got nothing on Countdown presenter Jeff Stelling. Altogether now: ooh, missus. Titter ye not!

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