Stacey Solomon smashes it on The Chase and Twitter was impressed

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Former X Factor star and Loose Women panellist Stacey Solomon surprised many when she beat the Chaser and won £60,000 on Sunday

Stacey Solomon proved you can’t judge a book by its cover when she crushed her opponent on ITV quiz show The Chase.

The Loose Women star, 27, has often been labelled ditzy and stupid for her TV persona, but even her own fans were left in shock as she flew through a round of quick-fire questions, landing £60,000 for the prize pot on Sunday.

The highlight of the celeb special show was the moment she correctly matched a Blondie lyric to the song The Tide Is High, as she faced former journalist and The Chase pro Anne Hegerty.

Suffice to say, viewers were a bit surprised…

And the Stacey love multiplied by a million…

Even the Chaser herself, Anne Hegarty, was surprised by Stacey's performance...

 

Totally understandably, the mum-of-two couldn’t help feeling pretty pleased with herself, too…

Of course, there was the traditional touch of trolling, but the former X Factor star has played it super cool. Especially when it comes to claims that she “pretends” to be stupid…

Stacey and her celebrity team which included Louise Minchin, Keith Allen and Matt Allwright won more than £70,000 for their charities.

Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 

An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.