FANS STUNNED: Bradley Walsh lashes out at The Chase contestant with ANGRY WARNING after mistake

ITV viewers were left stunned as Bradley Walsh handed out a “yellow card” to a player after losing patience with his repetitive habit. The Chase contestant Steve joined fellow players Claire, Mark, and Jane in a bid to bag some cash on the hit quiz show. After Jane and Mark both got the boot against Jenny “the Vixen” Ryan, player Steve took his chance, scooping £4,000 in his cash-builder round.

Steve bravely chose to play for his pot against the braniac chaser, but his round quickly unravelled when he froze on his very first question, failing to answer in time. Moments later, Steve was cutting it fine again and Bradley barked: “I need an answer!” Although the player scraped through by a fraction of a second, the host wasn’t in the mood to let it slide. Bradley unleashed a furious lecture in front of the studio audience, blasting the player’s conduct and issuing a stern warning.

“You cannot leave it that long. That’s gotta stop,” he raged. “You’ve got a yellow card. You’re 3 ahead — you could have been 4 ahead if you weren’t fiddling around.”

Fans watching at home took to social media to react, with one saying they’d never seen Bradley so riled up. One wrote:  “omg brad giving him a yellow card is epic TV who times out on the chase ffs!

“Never seen brad get so heated he seemed genuinely annoyed lol.” Others slammed the player’s error, saying they had “no sympathy”.

“No excuse at all for running out of time,” penned one fan. Another added: “No sympathy if you run out of time ffs”

More chimed in, blasting: “#thechase for gods sake press a bloody button!” and “Only 2 people left. P4 rightly tells Steve to go high for the 60K Steve goes for his 4K, and times out! Never trust a man with a goatee.”

Steve managed to make it back to his final remaining teammate, Claire, who was next up to face the chaser. Despite having encouraged Steve to “take the high offer” during his round, she opted to go for the low offer of just £1k, triggering anger from viewers.

“There is literally no worse sort of person than someone who eggs everyone else on to go high, and then goes low themselves. The kind of person who doesn’t return shopping trolleys,” raged one fan. Another echoed: “Tells everyone to go high. Goes for the low offer herself.”

Sadley it was a loss all around for the team who didn’t managed to win their £5k cash prize. They answered just 14 questions correctly in the final chase and despite two pushbacks they were easily caught by Jenny with 15 seconds remaining.