Today show team left in hysterics as Richard Wilkins announces 'Dickie's Double Dip'... a new cash grab game that involves matching up host faces
- Richard Wilkins invites viewers to grab balls every day next week
- Pull out a matching pair of balls to win, double money if balls feature Dickie
- 'Dickie's Double Dip' will be a segment in Today's We Love Australia tour
- Karl Stefanovic is hopeful Dickie will find everlasting love on the tour
Veteran entertainment personality Richard Wilkins has left his Today co-hosts in stitches during a 'live' broadcast when he announced the breakfast show's new cash grab game... which has the slightly risque name of 'Dickie's Double Dip'.
Wilkins made the announcement on Wednesday morning, promising viewers they'll have a chance to win 'heaps of cash' when the Today show travels around Australia next week.
'Every day next week we'll be inviting you to double dip in my lucky bag. And if you pick out matching balls we will hand you some cold hard cash right there,' Wilkins explained as his colleagues burst into hysterical fits of laughter.
The Today team can barely contain themselves during the Dickie's Double Dip announcement
The balls in the game will feature the faces of each of the Today hosts - Wilkins, Sylvia Jeffreys, Karl Stefanovic, Lisa Wilkinson, and Steven Jacobs.
Or in Wilkins' words, 'There are balls with everybody's head'.
Winning will be a matter of chance.
'If you pull out a matching pair, you're going to win cash ... BOOM! ... right there,' Wilkins said.
And if you're really lucky, you could score an even bigger win.
'If you pull out a pair of balls with my face on them, it's double money,' according to Wilkins.
Dipping into Dickie's bag: Pick two of Dickie's heads for double the prize money
Tearing up 'live' on air: Karl Stefanovic (left) and Lisa Wilkinson (right) are pictured laughing hard during the Double Dickie's Dip announcement
As the colourful personality continued to explain the rules of the game with a straight face, Jeffreys was seen bursting into out-of-control laughter, while Stefanovic grimaced as he appeared to be struggling to contain himself.
Wilkinson, meanwhile, was hiding behind a sheaf of papers.
Wilkins repeated the words 'Dickie's Double Dip' and 'balls' several times, each time with the result of his co-hosts giggling and laughing over the apparent double-entendre.
Viewers were quick to take to social media to praise the team for the humorous segment.
Game of chance: The Today show is promoting Dickie's Double Dip across its social media platforms
Big win for Today: The Dickie's Double Dip segment received hundreds of likes on Facebook
Too raunchy for breakfast TV?: Sharp viewers spot the apparent double entendre
Double dipping allowed: Sylvia Jeffreys (left) and Karl Stefanovic (right) laughing hysterically
Today is in the middle of a three-week special program in what's widely seen as a direct challenge to rival Channel Seven's Sunrise’s World Tour.
The Channel Seven breakfast show saw the team broadcasting 'live' from five countries across five days last week.
Today's We Love Australia tour - which could be viewed by some as a patriotic dig at Sunrise's foreign jaunts - takes the team across the nation, including stops in Broome, Darwin, the Sunshine Coast, Melbourne and the Hawkesbury River in New South Wales.
Dickie's Double Dip will take place next week during the We Love Australia Tour
'This is our third We Love Australia tour, and once again we’re reminded how many brilliant holiday spots we have in this country,' Wilkinson said in a media statement cited by Mumbrella earlier this month.
Her co-host Stefanovic said, in the same statement, he had high hopes the tour would reap results on the love front for 61-year-old Wilkins.
'I’ve got a funny feeling I’ll finally find love for Dickie,' Stefanovic said.
'Come on, girls – make it third time lucky for the handsome devil.'
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