Video: Wrong Answer From ‘Emma From Wrexham’ Goes Viral

An answer on a TV game show has ‘gone viral’ with millions of people being made aware of an amusing answer given by a Wrexhamite.

Emma, who explained on the show yesterday that she was from Wrexham and worked in the local courts, gained fame after an odd answer on ITV’s gameshow The Chase.

Wrexham.com readers may have seen our daytime TV tweets and interactions:

@wrexham @Carlski1982 love to see local people on TV. Makes a change it's not a police programme about people getting pissed in town centre!

— Hayley pearson (@Hayleyjpearson) January 12, 2015

Emma from Wrexham thinks a ICE CREAM VAN was on the pitch during a premier league match in 2009 & a ball was deflected off it… !

— Wrexham.com (@wrexham) January 12, 2015

Turning off the telly now as Emma has gone… pic.twitter.com/3oTIZy0wT3

— Wrexham.com (@wrexham) January 12, 2015

…and we thought that would be it!

Since then the wrong answer has gained famed online, even subject to its own crude photoshop (above) of the answer. Large social media accounts including the likes of Coral and Paddy Power Bookmakers and The Daily Mail plus many internet ‘banter’ accounts shared the video clip of the show with one reaching around two million people and being ‘liked’ over 13,000 times.

Liverpool’s goalkeeper at the time also highlighted it to his nearly 1,000,000 followers:

“@neilbarry9: @PReina25 Is this how you remember it? Once a Red ALWAYS a Red JFT96 YNWA pic.twitter.com/goiRiZDjQC” I wish!!

— Pepe Reina (@PReina25) January 12, 2015

The answer saw those on twitter making 600 tweets per minute about the show at the time, and now it has been mentioned over 20,000 times and retweeted many times more.

The video of the answer being given is below:

Our faveorite comment was by Adam Griffiths on our Facebook page who says: “They were playing Aston Vanilla to be fair.”