LOOSE Men viewers were left stunned after Craig Doyle was given a testicular cancer check on air.
The show’s anchor got up from his seat on the panel and let Dr Amir Khan check him over during the show.
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Craig, 54, kept his trousers on for the segment but Dr Amir could be seen carrying out the examination with his right hand.
While the check was being performed, Craig turned his back to the studio audience.
He was still filmed from the side, however.
Dr Amir used his thumb and forefinger to carry out the examination as Craig looked nervously at his Loose Men co-stars, Sam Thompson and Charles Spencer.
The audience, meanwhile, laughed as he glanced at them.
Once Dr Amir had finished, the Irish telly star asked him: “How are they doing? They good, the lads, yeah?”
Dr Amir replied: “They’re good! They feel good!”
As the audience broke into applause, Craig said: “This is a high point, the audience are clapping my testicles.”
The check on Craig’s testicles was done as part of a segment titled Loose Men Health Clinic on Thursday’s pre-recorded show.
Dr Amir said they would be moving on to a prostate examination next, explaining that prostate cancer is the most common form of cancer detected in men.
But holding his hand up in the air, Craig exclaimed: “Woah, there is only so much I will do for television!”
Craig then produced a fake ‘trainer rectum’ from under the Loose Men desk for Dr Amir to use instead.
Dr Amir said he wanted to “take out the stigma of a prostate examination” and proceeded to perform one on it.
He donned a pair of blue surgical gloves and used lubricant jelly to show viewers and the audience how a doctor would carry out the check at a GP practice.
“There’s no need to fear that prostrate exam at all,” Dr Amir said.
Viewers at home were surprised to tune in to the scenes playing out on ITV during their Thursday lunchtime.
Writing on X, formerly known as Twitter, one Loose Men fan simply mused: “Wholesome content!”
The hour-long spin-off replaces Loose Women with a male panel every few months on ITV.
The first episode of Loose Men aired in November 2020.
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