The Chase's Darragh Ennis exposes 'crime' on ITV show

Chaser has shared that there is one thing that he and his co-stars strictly cannot do on the , otherwise they will be "committing a crime". The Irish genius, who works alongside Mark Labbett, Anne Hegerty, Shaun Wallace, Paul Sinha, and Jenny Ryan, said that they are not allowed to purposely let any contestants.

Speaking exclusively to Express.co.uk, at one of his quiz nights, in , when asked if they ever let any contestants win, he replied: "No. Literally it is a crime, it's a criminal offence. Because tax-free winnings means that you are facilitating tax evasion, and if there is one person that will come after you it is the taxman. So, no, we never ever do that. It's unprofessional anyway, but it is also a crime."

Darragh has been on both sides of the coin on the Bradley Walsh hosted ITV show, as he was first a contestant before going on to land a spot as a Chaser. He previously opened up, saying that "there was nothing left, no money" before appearing on the show.

While competing, he won £1,575 as his share - but that amount was enough to cover what Darragh needed with him admitted to having it "already spent" by the time he got home.

The Chaser revealed the reason that he went on the ITV quiz show in the first place - admitting that he had no real interest in quizzing. In fact, it was the financial side of the programme that interested him.

Darragh shared: "I needed a door for my house. That's why I got into quizzing. I bought my first house in Oxford and I swear you don't want to know how much it costs to buy a house up in Oxford."

The 44-year-old brainiac continued: "The previous owners said that they would leave the fridge freezer behind, but they didn't. I didn't have enough money to buy a fridge freezer. My brother had to buy me one. We had maxed credit cards, everything. There was nothing left, no money.

"And the old owners had also taken the back door of the house and left us with a conservatory door that couldn't be locked, so we couldn't lock our house. I didn't have enough money and I wasn't going to make enough any time soon, with having to pay off credit cards, so I went on TV to win a door.

"That money [from the show] was spent before I even got home. I never took quizzing seriously before that. I was in a quiz league but it was just a bit of a laugh."