The Chase viewers were left raging over ‘shocking scenes’ during Wednesday’s episode that saw a contestant break show records in the worst possible way. 

Jenny ‘The Vixen’ put an offer of minus £17,000 on the table which was taken by one of the contestants, Chetan, with fans saying ‘you should be ashamed!’

He was joined on the show by Kym, who scored £8,000 in her cashbuilder round and then accepted an offer of £75,000. 

Nicky earned £7,000 but later took an offer of £5,000 which took away some of Kym’s winnings. 

Before taking on The Chaser, Chetan said: ‘Probably not going to be the most popular choice but I do think there is strength in numbers so I’m going to go for the -17.’ 

The Chase viewers were left raging over ‘shocking scenes’ during Wednesday’s episode that saw a contestant break show records in the worst possible way

Sharing their thoughts to X, fans wrote: ‘What the f*** am I watching, imagine taking the minus £17,000 offer on the chase …….the lowest offer ever. I wouldn’t be able to walk the streets without being ashamed of myself’; ‘I would change my name and flee to a different country if I did this. Wouldn’t be able to handle the shame’; 

‘Approval from your teammates or not, this is a criminal offence’; ‘Imagine trying to win £-5k and £-17k. Imagine trying to win money off the prize pot. Tactics or not, that just feels wrong on every level’; ‘

‘What a sad, sad day for television. We’ve not only had a really poor attempt at a bushtucker trial which was painful to watch. But we’ve had the lowest ever offer in The Chase history. Minus £17,000’; ‘Imagine taking the minus £17,000 offer on The Chase… some people have no shame.’

Others disagreed and added: ‘The real villain here is the Vixen. I was expecting a minus £7K for a divisible number but to take £17K away was just spiteful, leaving someone like this open to ridicule!!’; 

‘Many toys being thrown out of many prams for the guy taking the minus £17K, but his one space and the three questions he answered in the Final Chase were the difference between everyone going home with £12.5K, and going home with nothing.’ 

Earlier this week, fans threatened to boycott the show and fumed ‘it’s going downhill fast!’ as they begged bosses to take action after a ‘painful, disaster of an episode’.

On Monday night’s episode, presenter Bradley Walsh welcomed Caroline from Cambridge, Alexander from Leeds, Emma from Kent and Alan from Derbyshire.

They went up against relentless Chaser Darragh ‘The Menace’ Ennis in the hope of winning a prize pot worth thousands of pounds.

Sharing their thoughts to X, fans wrote: ‘What the f*** am I watching, imagine taking the minus £17,000 offer on the chase …….the lowest offer ever’

Others disagreed and added: ‘The real villain here is the Vixen. I was expecting a minus £7K for a divisible number but to take £17K away was just spiteful’

Earlier this week, fans threatened to boycott show and fumed ‘it’s going downhill fast!’ as they begged bosses to take action after a ‘painful, disaster of an episode’ 

They went up against relentless Chaser Darragh ‘The Menace’ Ennis in the hope of winning a prize pot worth thousands of pounds but one by one they fell defeated 

But fans were left feeling deflated as one by one each player fell victim the The Menace.

Caroline got caught by the Chaser and was forced to leave the team, leaving them with just three members so early in the show. 

Alexander and Emma then both accepted Darragh’s low offers of £1000, hoping playing it safe would keep them in the compeтιтion, only to be sorely mistaken.

Left to fend for himself, Alan took the high offer of £100,000 but got caught anyway.

Darragh said they were ‘a very strong team on paper but the luck didn’t fall for them at the table’.