A Chase contestant was branded "cowardly" by Chaser Paul Sinha as she chose to take a minus offer - against her team's wishes.
Abbie, 24, from Essex scored £5,000 in her cash builder, with host Bradley Walsh telling her she was a good player.
Abbie, who had just given birth to son Felix, said she wanted driving lessons with the cash she won because she needed to get on the road.
She also revealed she had three pet rats that she had tried to train before her baby son came along.
When it was time to go up against Paul Sinha, she was offered £66,000 for her high offer and -£2,000 as the low offer.
Her team told her to go for the £5,000 - but she went against her fellow contestants a nd opted for the minus offer - which took the total prize fund down to £9,000.
She said: "I only need driving lessons and I want to get back to the team, so I'm going to take the minus offer."
Paul said: "It's cowardly, but it might be the best thing to do tactically."
And viewers were quick to slam her on social media.
elishbayley said: "No wonder she has rats because she is one #TheChase "
Fiona Manson said: " did she seriously take the minus?? What an idiot. I would be raging if I was the other guys."
And Bendorrington95 said: "Pond Scum if you take a minus offer #TheChase "
Abbie managed to get back to her fellow players James and Steve for the final chase - as they set a total of 20 for Paul to beat.
In the final Chase Paul managed to beat the team, despite them executing several pushbacks.
*The Chase continues at 5pm on ITV tomorrow
