Best friends Abbie Lynn and Georgia Bell’s perplexing remarks about Charles Dickens had Gogglebox watchers in stitches.
Among those viewing a preview of the BBC’s version of Great Expectations, which stars Olivia Colman as an opium-addicted Miss Havisham, were Lee Riley and Jenny Newby.
The Durham-based duo, on the other hand, had no clue who The Crown actor was, with Abbie saying, ‘Well, I hate to break it to you, but I don’t know who that is!’
‘She’s in everything!’ Georgia explained.
‘Do you know who Charles Dickens is?’ Abbie asked Georgia as they tried to work out what they were viewing.
‘Do I, hell?’ answered the mum of one.
‘I’m sure he writes a book called Twit and T**t,’ Abbie attempted.
‘Or Twit and T**t… Twit and Twig… or something.’
Georgia confessed she had heard the moniker Miss Havisham before ‘in school,’ leaving Abbie even more perplexed.
Viewers were in hysterics over the comments, with one writing: “You know Charles Dickens, I’m sure he writes a book called Twit and T**t” #Gogglebox I can’t cope’.
Another penned: ‘That classic Charles Dickens classic “twit n t**t”.’
Someone else wrote: ‘They don’t know who Charles Dickens is..??!’
This isn’t the first time Abbie and Georgia have made us laugh, with the duo recently dubbing a Top of the Pops segment from 1992 as “the olden days.”
When Abbie saw the footage, which was recently re-aired on BBC, she exclaimed, ‘I’ve never seen this before,’ and Georgia added, ‘It appears ancient!’
Abbie continued: ‘I think it’s out of the olden days.’
The girls didn’t help themselves later in the segment, as Abbie added: ‘I feel like we need to be watching this in black and white.’
Gogglebox airs Fridays at 9pm on Channel 4.
