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<\/p>\nA student contestant on Saturday evening’s episode of The 1% Club left host Lee Mack horrified when he produced a small container filled with his own eyelashes during the ITV quiz programme.<\/p>\n
Nathaniel, who described collecting as one of his hobbies, displayed the tube containing his unusual collection to the comedian, prompting an immediate reaction of disgust.<\/p>\n
“Urgh, that’s disgusting!” Mr Mack exclaimed as the studio audience burst into laughter at the unexpected revelation.<\/p>\n
The bizarre moment occurred during one of the regular contestant interviews that take place between questions on the popular logic-based quiz show, which challenges 100 players with increasingly difficult puzzles that only a small percentage of the public can solve correctly.<\/p>\n
Lee Mack labelled the contestant’s hobby ‘disgusting’<\/p>\n
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ITV<\/p>\n
The conversation took an even more peculiar turn when Lee questioned how Nathaniel could verify the eyelashes were genuinely his own.<\/p>\n
“A father knows,” the student responded, before making the bewildering claim that “my eyelashes are my kids,” leaving the host completely baffled by the comparison.<\/p>\n
The exchange formed part of the programme’s regular format, where Mr Mack engages contestants in conversation whilst they progress through questions of varying difficulty, from those 90% of surveyed people answered correctly to the final challenge only 1% could solve.<\/p>\n
Each of the 100 participants begins with \u00a31,000, which transfers to the prize fund if they answer incorrectly and face elimination from the competition.<\/p>\n
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The 1% Club contestant revealed he collected eyelashes<\/p>\n
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Social media users quickly expressed their astonishment at the unusual collection, with several questioning whether producers had orchestrated the bizarre revelation.<\/p>\n
“I need to know before the show starts do they pick random contestants and give them stupid stuff to say? #The1PercentClub,” one viewer posted on X.<\/p>\n
Another person commented: “I’ve never known of anyone who collects eyelashes as a hobby. #The1PercentClub.”<\/p>\n
A third joked: “Nathaniel telling us he’s a serial killer live on national TV #The1PercentClub.”<\/p>\n
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The 1% Club presenter Lee Mack was horrified by the confession<\/p>\n
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“How the heck do you collect eyelashes? What does he do: shave them? #The1PercentClub,” a fourth wondered.<\/p>\n
Some viewers also voiced frustration about the programme’s pacing, with one complaining: “Why does Lee Mack spend so much time talking to the people going out, but in the final round he spends no time at all talking to winners? #The1PercentClub.”<\/p>\n
Others held the opposite view though, with one enthusing: “This has to be the best quiz show ever, I get totally invested & I do get the odd question right but it’s the banter between the contestants & Lee Mack I love, he so quick & hilarious.” (sic)<\/p>\n
Despite the unusual revelation, Nathaniel performed impressively throughout the competition and became one of only four players to reach the final challenge.<\/p>\n
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The 1% Club has been a popular quiz show since 2022<\/p>\n
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ITV<\/p>\n
The quartet faced a visual puzzle asking them to count the total number of squares in an image, with a substantial \u00a395,000 prize fund at stake.<\/p>\n
All four finalists submitted different answers to the question, which previous research showed only one per cent of the public could solve correctly.<\/p>\n
Martin emerged victorious with his answer of 46, claiming the entire jackpot for himself.<\/p>\n
Nathaniel, who had progressed through the entire competition without using his safety pass, departed with a consolation prize of \u00a31,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A student contestant on Saturday evening’s episode of The 1% Club left host Lee Mack horrified when he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143994,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,921,93,61,60,8642,40822,282],"class_list":{"0":"post-143993","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-celebrity","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-itv","14":"tag-sgg","15":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}