Charlie Stayt and Rachel Burden hosted BBC Breakfast on Friday, with fans soon left unimpressed09:38, 29 May 2026Updated 09:38, 29 May 2026Fans of BBC Breakfast were left feeling frustrated during the latest episode.Charlie Stayt and Rachel Burden returned to the Salford studio on Friday (May 29) to deliver the latest headlines from across the UK and around the world.Later in the show, Charlie and Rachel revealed the answer to this week's Brain Test. The programme has recently been testing viewers with weekly puzzle questions, but the latest offering left many fans unimpressed.Mathematician Matt Parker posed the question: "Your challenge is to work out the fewest number of items of clothing you can own so that you never repeat an outfit for an entire year."Matt soon revealed the answer, saying: "The answer depends slightly on your view on decency, because if you insist on always wearing clothes all the time, you can get away with just 17 items of clothing."They need to be across five different categories. You need five of one thing, let's say five shirts, and then you need three of the other four categories. So, three trousers, three jackets, three shoes, three hats. And by picking different combinations of those, [you get] 5 x 3 x 3 x 3 x 3 = 405. So, you've actually got a few outfits spare."Matt continued: "If you don't care about decency and you accept that not wearing something counts, then you can get all the way down to just nine items. If you had nine different things, and every day you either do or don't wear every single one of them, you actually end up with 512 outfits, but at some point you're not wearing trousers."Back in the studio, Charlie asked: "Clear for you, Rachel?" with Rachel noting: "Well, what he's actually describing there, Charlie, is a capsule wardrobe."BBC viewers were left unimpressed by the ambiguity of the answer, with many taking to X (formerly Twitter) to complain, while others asked for the segment to be scrapped altogether."These puzzles have had their day, annoying," one person wrote, with another adding: "Agree, they need to get rid."A third said, "C**p question," and another person added, "I don't care about the question."A fifth fan echoed the sentiment, saying: "WTF is this s****? No more please," with another commenting: "He's making it up as he goes along puzzle man." Someone else wrote: "What a s*** question with an ambiguous answer."Charlie and Rachel then unveiled the next quiz question, which asked viewers to identify the colour of a shape in a pattern sequence.Article continues belowElsewhere on today's BBC Breakfast, the hosts reported on news of a Blue Origin rocket exploding on a launch pad at Cape Canaveral in Florida.They also celebrated brothers Jordan and Cian Adams, who completed 33 marathons in 33 days to raise awareness of frontotemporal dementia.BBC Breakfast airs daily on BBC One at 6am
BBC Breakfast sparks backlash as frustrated viewers fume 'no more'
Charlie Stayt and Rachel Burden hosted BBC Breakfast on Friday, with fans soon left unimpressed






