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COUNTDOWN presenter Rachel Riley looked  awkward when a word was spelled out on the board behind her.

During Wednesday's episode, Rachel, 34, had to spell out “squirter” when it was proposed over the players' suggestions of “squirt” and “squire”.

 Rachel was left looking visibly awkward after the word was suggested
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Rachel was left looking visibly awkward after the word was suggestedCredit: Channel 4

Susie Dent's guest Adam Henson said: "With squirt you could have gone squirter”.

Susie then quickly interjected: "Like a water pistol, for example."

Rachel later went on to share a picture of the word on Twitter, alongside the caption:

"Nothing to see here #waterpistols."

 The awkward answer came out of this selection of letters
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The awkward answer came out of this selection of lettersCredit: Channel 4

 

Fans of Countdown were quick to comment on the post, one joked: “such filth!”.

Another added: “You owe me a mouthful of coffee and a new monitor!”.

While someone else simply stated: “flirt”.

But this is not the first time Rachel's been left squirming.

Just last month, she couldn't contain her laughter as eight-letter word VIBRATOR came up on the show.

And last year Rachel had to deal with a similarly awkward selection of letters.

At the time, the presenter didn’t seem to realise the rude word hidden in the selection of C, L, I, T, E, A, S and D - but later when she looked on Twitter it dawned on her.

She wrote: "I was wondering why I'd had so many tweets this afternoon... mystery solved!"

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