A British TV host laughed off warnings as he attempted to eat what are supposed to be the nation’s hottest chicken wings.
A few minutes later, he wasn’t laughing anymore.
ITV Racing’s Luke Harvey ordered the wings from the Yuzu stand at the racetrack last week and declined the gloves and eye protection offered.
“They can’t be that hot,” he said and then bit into the chicken.
Within seconds, he was in obvious pain, gagging as the Yuzu workers chuckled. He fled to the nearby tables and took what seemed like someone else’s beer.
“I’m going home,” he said. He started to walk off, but then doubled over in pain again:
Harvey told The Mirror that he thought taking a bite of the wings would be “a bit of fun.”
“I thought my tongue was going to fall off, it was so hot,” he said. “It was nice tasting, just bloody hot.”
Harvey admitted to the newspaper that the beer part of the bit was staged ― but he didn’t realize just how much he would actually need it when the time came.
“When I went to grab my Guinness, he wouldn’t let me have it!” he said. “I ended up yanking it off him and he literally gave me a death stare afterwards.”
