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 discussing 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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‘Quim’ is an antiquated ‘vulgar’ slang word for female genitals, according to the Collins Dictionary, which was first recorded as being used in the 17th 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.’
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