Bradley Walsh interrupts Beat the Chasers to issue scathing jab at rival quiz show

On Sunday, Bradley Walsh reunited with ITV's beloved quiz geniuses for another episode of The Chase's hit spin-off, Beat the Chasers. With the experts Mark Labbett, Shaun Wallace, Anne Hegerty, Paul Sinha, Jenny Ryan, and Darragh Ennis geared to take on contestants from across the UK, Bradley threw an unexpected jab at the rival quiz show, BBC's Pointless.

After successfully beating two contestants, the chasers were introduced to Jane from Maidstone, who revealed she was a librarian and applied to appear on the game show in celebration of her friend's birthday. She explained: "My friend Mary-Louise, it's her big birthday this year and she decided we need to do all new weird things and one of them's going to be on telly." To which Bradley interrupted: "And this is it?" However, Jane confessed: "Well, no, we applied for Pointless." As the crowd erupted with laughter, she added: "We didn't get on," which sparked Bradley's brutal rant.

The 65-year-old stated: "Let me tell you, on a show like this you've actually got a chance of winning some money. If you go on there, you spend all week on it and you get away with about 30 quick; fair play to them."

As for her motives with the money Jane shared: "We've got lots and lots of animals in our garden, we've got frogs but we don't have a pond and none of our neighbours have a pond."

"So you want a pond?" Bradley asked, to which she replied, "Yeah."

Unlike Pointless, on Beat the Chasers, players must take on the Cash Builder round and answer five multiple-choice questions for the chance to bank up to £5,000. However, if they start with the wrong answer, they are instantly out of the game.

Those who are successful will then choose if they want to face between two and all five of the chasers; the more chasers they are against, the more money they can win. However, the time advantage against them will decrease.

The game involves Bradley asking questions, alternating between the contestants and the chasers. If either gets the question wrong, the clock will keep running down until a correct answer is given. The first side to run out of time loses the game.

Whereas Pointless features teams of two contestants attempting to provide correct answers while scoring points for every person out of 100 in a public survey who gave the same correct answer.

To win the BBC game show, which is hosted by Alexander Armstrong and Richard Osman, the players must find a pointless answer, one that is correct but was not given by any of the 100 people surveyed.

Through rounds of elimination, teams must compete in a head-to-head round, with the goal of scoring as few points as possible. The final winning team plays for the jackpot, which can only be claimed by finding a pointless answer.