Poppy dropped a very innocent clanger (Picture: Ady Kerry/PinPep/Rex/Shutterstock)
Chef Poppy O’Toole had viewers in hysterics after accidentally using an historic X-rated slang word live on television during Saturday Kitchen.
The 28-year-old TikTok star appeared on the BBC One morning show alongside Britain’s Got Talent judge and newly-announced Eurovision host Alesha Dixon.
Chatting with host Matt Tebbutt during her cooking segment, the Young MasterChef judge was casually chatting about her quick rise to fame thanks to social media when she got her words mixed up.
Recalling how she’d been made redundant at the start of lockdown, Poppy explained how she had started her TikTok account, which now boasts four million followers ‘on a quim’.
‘Is that the right word?’ she asked as Matt hastily corrected her with ‘on a whim’.
‘What’s a quim?’ she then asked laughing, as Matt replied: ‘Let’s move on!’
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The Young MasterChef judge was recalling her rise to fame on social media (Picture: BBC)
Getting her words mixed up, Poppy accidentally confused the phrase ‘on a whim’ (Picture: BBC)
‘Quim’ is an antiquated ‘vulgar’ slang word for female genitals, according to the Collins Dictionary, which was first recorded as being used in the seventeenth century.
Since then, it’s rather fallen out of favour.
A few moments after Poppy’s accidental ‘Q-bomb’, Matt returned to the matter with an apology, explaining: ‘You may have heard a word Poppy used a little bit earlier – she genuinely didn’t know what it meant.
‘I will explain to her, I promise, what it means after this show, so apologies for everyone who did know about that at home.’
She laughed over her error, but wasn’t sure what it meant (Picture: BBC)
Host Matt Tebbutt’s face was a picture over the mishap (Picture: Twitter)
Poppy, who looked genuinely confused by the clip-up then laughed: ‘Am I getting cancelled? What have I done? Nooo!’
However, her slip-up had viewers in stiches at home.
‘One of the funniest moments ever on @SaturdayKitchen this morning,’ tweeted one, while another posted: ‘Loving Saturday #filth Kitchen on the BBC.’
‘Millions of #SaturdayKitchen viewers now Googling meaning of word #quim,’ added a third.
‘I feel like a naughty child!!!’ admitted another fan for laughing over the blooper.
Show producer Amanda Ross also took to Twitter and shared: ‘Never on the last 17 years of #SaturdayKitchen have I had to apologise for something half the audience didn’t understand!
‘Made me really feel my age!’
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She added: ‘Let’s revive the #Quim as it’s obviously discrete thank you @poppy_cooks’
‘Quim’ previously had a bit of a comeback after Loki labelled Black Widow a ‘mewling quim’ in 2012’s Avengers Assemble while imprisoned onboard the SHIELD helicarrier.
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‘What have I done?’ she joked afterwards.
