The Chase fan reveals amazing reason Mark Labbett is called The Beast – explaining it’s a very clever joke
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thesun.co.ukTHE Chase star Mark Labbett has been known as 'The Beast for more than a decade now - but the nickname is not for the reason you might think.
A super-fan of the show has revealed that it's nothing to do with his size or imposing 6ft7in height - saying it's actually a very clever play on words.
In fact, it's because La Bête - which sounds exactly like 55-year-old Mark's surname - is 'The Beast' in French. The amazing fact, worthy of one of the trickier rounds in any quiz, started circulating on Twitter last night.
Viewer Liam tweeted: "I have watched almost every episode of The Chase since it started airing in 2009. "And I am only TODAY learning that Mark Labbett is called The Beast cos ‘la bête’ is french for ‘the beast’, not just because.
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