Mamma Mia! Family Feud host Steve Harvey left dumbstruck as woman stumbles over most simple of questions

  • Host Steve Harvey asked the family for another way of saying 'mother' 
  • The contestant changed her accent and altered her voice during the show
  • Harvey can't keep a straight face as the audience laughs at the display
  • Shelia Patterson claims she was not the worst contestant on the hit show 

By Darren Boyle for MailOnline

Published: 07:27 EST, 10 February 2016 | Updated: 08:55 EST, 10 February 2016

A woman has been branded the 'worst' contestant on Family Feud after she was unable to come up with a different word for mother. 

Shelia Patterson suffers a complete brain freeze when host Steve Harvey approaches her and asks her for her answer. 

The two previous contestants failed to score with the words 'Nanny' and 'Nana'.

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Family Feud host Steve Harvey, pictured, described Shelia Patterson's answer on his show as the 'worst ever'

Ms Patterson, pictured, look bemused as she tried to answer the question using a number of strange accents

Ms Patterson, pictured, look bemused as she tried to answer the question using a number of strange accents

Ms Patterson, pictured, doesn't believe that she is the worst ever contestant on the show, despite her failure

Ms Patterson, pictured, doesn't believe that she is the worst ever contestant on the show, despite her failure

Instead of coming up with a different word for mother, Ms Patterson instead tries to change the inflection of her voice and event adding a Spanish accent while delivering the earlier answers of Mommy, Nanny and Nana. 

Harvey posted the clip to YouTube describing it as the 'the greatest television that won’t be seen'.

The host valiantly tries to engage with the audience at Ms Patterson's attempt to use her linguistic skills to bamboozle the show. 

Harvey described Ms Patterson as giving the 'worst answer ever'. 

However, Ms Patterson told TMZ that there must be bigger failures on the show than her attempt to answer the simple question. 

She said her phone had been ringing off the hook after the clip, which did not make the final show, was posted on the internet and shared more than 31 million times. 

She admitted that she 'cracked under the pressure of being in front of a live audience.

Luckily for Harvey, this time he was not at fault for the faux pas after his embarrassing mistake at the Miss Universe competition where he declared the wrong contestant the winner, only to have to break the news to her moments later that she was  

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