Antiques Roadshow viewers distracted by VERY rude looking item – but the owner has the last laugh

ANTIQUES Roadshow viewers were shocked by a very rude looking item and how much it was worth.

Host Fiona Bruce, 57, and the antiques experts were on hand at the Ulster Folk Museum in Belfast.

One person brought in a ‘sea coconut’, also known as coco de mer, with designs carved into it.

Expert Ronnie Archer-Morgan looked over the rare artefact which the guest came in to possession of thanks to an inheritance from her second cousin.

Ronnie described it as a “very rare nut” which was carved into a tea caddy in Sri Lanka when it was traded there in the 19th century.

He described it as having a “beautiful sculptural shape,” and added that the nut only grows on two of the 115 islands in Seychelles archipelago.

The expert said it was probably “sold as souvenir” but it was now a “protected species” and could not be sold in the same way today.

Ronnie valued it at between £800 and £1,200, but viewers couldn’t help but point out how rude it looked.

The guest was chuffed at the appraisal and told him: “Very good. Thank you.”

But fans watching at home were too distracted by the box and what they thought it really looked like.

“It’s a beautiful looking a**e,” wrote one fan on Twitter.

Another added: “Call it a sea coconut all you want. It looks like something else.”

And a third wrote: “Wasn’t expecting an image like this tonight.”

It comes after a similar looking item appeared on another Antiques Roadshow episode shot in Dundee, Scotland.

The experts were introduced to the owner of a rounded piece of polished wood, which certainly raised some eyebrows.

The Scotsman showed off the very human-like sculpture, revealing he’d found it in the attic after purchasing a new property, and wasn’t quite sure what it was.

Nothing could’ve prepared them for the shocking value of the crudely-shaped antique, as an expert revealed it was actually a ‘double coconut’, and was worth well over £1,000.

The show’s expert said: “I’m a collector in the sense of an old style collector and I love a cabinet of curiosity, and one of the most essential items in one of those is a Coco De Mer.”

The double coconut had a very interesting history, and hilariously their meaning actually translated to “beautiful buttocks”, said the collector, adding that “in fact of course they do bear more than a partial resemblance to the erm, human form.”