The Chase contestants bag whopping £42k jackpot as Shaun Wallace ‘throws final’ with major blunder

THE Chase contestants bagged a whopping £42k jackpot after Shaun Wallace “throws final” with major blunder.

Bradley Walsh, 60, joked that it was a “poor day at the office” for the quiz master as he made a simple slip-up.

During a repeat episode, Tom, Stella, Rosie and Justin triumphed in an epic showdown with after Shaun AKA the Dark Destroyer.

However, ITV viewers were left baffled after the quizzer passed on the primary school aged question.

Tom immediately impressed the genius quizmaster beating him in the first round to bring back £30,000 for the team.

The rest of the contestants managed to secure £4,000 each to add to the pot.

Heading into the final round, it was a close game to secure the huge £42,000 total – with them getting 19 questions right.

During the Final Chase, Bradley asked Shaun: “What four letter word represents the sound a pig makes?”

The obvious answer was oink, but Shaun passed.

Viewers were perplexed that the Chaser stumbled over the obvious answer.

The team answered the question correctly pushing the chaser back. They also managed to answer another three passed questions correctly.

One fan hilariously posted: “He made a pig’s ear out of that didn’t he!.”

Another shared: “How could Shaun not know a pig goes oink?” followed by a row of cry-laughing emojis.

A third wrote: “Well done team! Dark Destroyer had a mare!”

One fourth joked: “Shaun doesn’t even know the sound a pig makes!”

The team proved victorious and walked away with an impressive £42,000 to split between the four of them.

The team celebrated and shared their plans on what they were going to spend the money on.

A defeated Shaun said that it was a “close” game but the pushbacks had “killed” his game.

He said: “It was close but Justin played fanatically, they all did actually. They gel together well as a team.

“It was the push backs that obviously killed me in that game, if I didn’t get pushed back I probably would have won, but I didn’t.

“It was a pretty poor day in the office.”

The Chase airs weekdays at 5pm on ITV.