After mistakenly speaking an old X-rated slang phrase live on television during Saturday Kitchen, Chef Poppy O’Toole had viewers in stitches.
The 28-year-old TikTok sensation joined Britain’s Got Talent judge and newly-announced Eurovision presenter Alesha Dixon on the BBC One morning programme.
During her cookery segment, the Young MasterChef judge was casually speaking with presenter Matt Tebbutt on her swift rise to prominence owing to social media when she got her words jumbled 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!’
According to the Collins Dictionary, ‘Quim’ is an old ‘vulgar’ slang term for female genitals that was originally used in the seventeenth century.
It has gone out of favour since then.
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.’
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.
‘Never in the previous 17 years of #SaturdayKitchen have I had to apologise for something half the audience didn’t understand!’ said show producer Amanda Ross on Twitter.
‘Made me really feel my age!’
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.