An Only Connect contestant has fired back after being targeted with cruel jibes online, expressing her pride in being a ‘loud, fat, confident woman’. On Monday evening, the BBC quiz series hosted by Victoria Coren Mitchell returned for a new season, where a team called the Al Frescans after their love for the outdoors went up against the Midlanders in the opening heat. Danielle Cope was introduced as the captain of the Al Frescans, described as being a ‘a health and wellbeing practitioner who performed at a music festival on a moving steam train’.
When asked by the host why they decided to take part, Danielle answered on her team’s behalf, stating: ‘We’ve been watching Only Connect together for years and always saying, “Oh we should do that, we should have a go.” And then we applied and couldn’t believe we got on, so absolutely thrilled to be here.’ In the end the Al Frescans beat the Midlanders with 28 points to their opponents’ 18 to proceed to the next stage of the competition.
Following the release of the episode, Danielle revealed on X that she’d been browsing through tweets about the programme, and ‘was kinda shocked to see that most of them are about me’. Browsing through tweets about Only Connect and was kinda shocked to see that most of them are about me. But then again I am a loud, fat, confident woman.
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