Snooker legend Steve Davis left BBC presenters Hazel Irvine and Ken Doherty in hysterics with a cheeky quip through the World Snooker Championship coverage on the Crucible
Hazel Irvine couldn’t comprise her laughter after a cheeky comment from Steve Davis.(Image: BBC screenshot)
Hazel Irvine and Ken Doherty struggled to maintain a straight face after snooker icon Steve Davis dropped an X-rated comment dwell on the BBC.
The presenting trio had been discussing Ronnie O’Sullivan’s World Snooker Championship encounter with debutant He Guoqiang, with former Manchester United star Paul Scholes noticed among the many crowd on the Crucible.
Irvine cheekily quipped that Scholes was a ginger magician, very like Davis had been throughout his enjoying days. Neither she nor Doherty, nevertheless, might have anticipated the veteran’s response, which left them each completely helpless with laughter.
Broadcasting dwell on the BBC, Irvine mentioned: “A little nod and a smile (from Ronnie O’Sullivan) to someone in the audience. I wonder if it was Paul Scholes. Good to see him here.”
Fellow presenter Ken Doherty mentioned: “Yeah fantastic, one great watching another. What a player he was and he loves the snooker. A lot of the footballers, they love to play snooker in their spare time and it’s great to have them here.
“A ginger magician, and one other one (factors at Steve Davis),” Irvine replied, prompting a mischievous exchange between Doherty and Davis.
Doherty mentioned: “Well he was once ginger.” The six-time world champion fired back: “I nonetheless may be.”
Irvine and Doherty dissolved into laughter, with Irvine remarking: “You’ve fully floored us with that one, thanks for that Steve. Impressions of that first body of the afternoon?”
The pair continued laughing whereas Davis responded: “Well for a short time I assumed Ronnie made a nasty resolution to alter cues however impulsively he received sufficient possibilities and he is off and working. (Turns to Ken) Don’t giggle an excessive amount of.”
Irvine mentioned: “He can not help however giggle,” while Doherty added: “It’s completed me, it is completed me.”
The BBC presenter tried to revive some order, saying: “It’s completed me as effectively. Let’s get issues again on observe now. In phrases of He Guoqiang’s expertise right here, that is barely starting to really feel a bit demoralising from his perspective. How do you dig your self out of that state of affairs?
“It’ll be very hard to but what it will be, it’ll be a great learning experience for him in a way,” Doherty mentioned.
“Playing Ronnie O’Sullivan, playing at the Crucible, in the heat of battle yes he hasn’t been up to the charge but he’ll learn a lot from it, watching him play and the whole experience of playing the Crucible and the way he got through qualifying was magnificent. He hasn’t performed but just enjoy it now.”
