TIPPING Point viewers have accused a player of failing to knock the jackpot counter off "on purpose".
Host Ben Shephard returned to the Tipping Point studio yesterday and welcomed players Jill, Jack, John and Ashnique to try their hand at beating the machine.
After beating off stiff competition, Jill joined Ben at the end of the show to see if she could knock the £10,000 jackpot counter off.
Ben offered Jill to trade the £2,750 she’d accumulated for three final counters in a bid to knock the jackpot off.
And while the odds looked firmly stacked in her favour, Jill decided to keep the money – much to the surprise of Ben.
She said: "It depends where they’d land, Ben. And £2,750 is a very nice day out, it’s us off to Greece, so I’m gonna take the money."
Despite taking her winnings, Ben made Jill put the three counters into the machine to see if she’d made the right call.
Although the first counter dropped it into the machine, the disc was "riding" on another, meaning it wouldn’t budge anything off the shelf.
The same time happened again with her third counter, meaning the jackpot counter stayed firmly on the shelf.
Ben confessed he would have taken the trade but congratulated Gill making the right call since two of the final three counters were "riders".
In light of her loss, viewers at home accused the Tipping Point player of fixing the final round when she turned down the trade of three more counters from Ben on Twitter.
VIEWER CLAIMS
One penned: "Hard to win when you don’t know when to drop. #tippingpoint."
"You got a lot of riders because you were pressing the buzzer too late," another shared.
A third claimed: "Was she TRYING to make them ride?!" alongside a gif with the caption: "Not suspicious at all…"
"Jill shows exactly why she’d would never have won taking the trade…shocking timing!" another shared.
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