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Man Who Cheated on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire man who cheated on who wants to be a millionaire Can you answer the Who Wants To Be A Millionaire questions Major Charles Ingram cheated on? It has been nearly 20 years since Major Charles Ingram answered 15 questions and won £1million on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire - only to then be exposed for cheating. The shocking events now form the basis of the TV drama Quiz, starring Michael Sheen, Matthew Macfayden and Sian Clifford. Major Ingram and his wife Diana did not receive the £1m prize and - along with another man Tecwen Whitlock - were eventually convicted of 'procuring the execution of a valuable security by deception' after a trial at Southwark Crown Court. That followed accusations that Whitlock, one of the contestants on the show who did not get chosen to play, would cough to tell Ingram the right answer as host Chris Tarrant read them out. Back in September 2001, when the two shows Ingram appeared in were broadcast, Who Wants To Be A Millionaire was one of the biggest shows on television. Contestants had to answer a question in the quickest time to get on - called fastest finger first - before getting through 15 questions that were progressively more difficult as the prize money went up. Each question had four possible answers and to help them they had four lifelines - ask the audience for help, 50/50 to remove two wrong answers and phone a friend. Read More. Related Articles. To get on the show back in September 2001, Ingram practised for 20 minutes per day on a fastest finger first machine he built himself. When the show ended on September 9 he had reached £4,000 but gone through two of his three lifelines. The next night Ingram would jump from one answer to the next after appearing to have settled, somehow reaching the £1m prize. But how do you think you would do in those circumstances? We've reproduced the 15 questions for you to take on here, but without any lifelines. Have a go and see how many you can get right. Would you win the £1million or end up with a lesser amount? Millionaire cheat Charles Ingram’s scam unraveled due to epic mistake on key question. Chris Tarrant might have declared Charles Ingram his "favourite ever contestant" - but Who Wants To Be A Millionaire producers had their suspicions while the Army Major was still playing. The father-of-three seemed to be a certainty for an early exit from the ITV game show. He had only managed to reach £4,000 on his first day facing Tarrant - and had used up two of his three precious lifelines. But on day two it was a different picture entirely. The Major was on a real winning streak, seemingly without explanation. He was behaving erratically and seemed to be taking huge risks on big money questions he clearly didn't know the answers to. One of the strangest moments came when Ingram was asked 'Who recorded the Born To Do It album'? By his own admission he had never heard of the record or its singer and initially selected the wrong answer. Read More. Related Articles. Read More. Related Articles. But then, with a clearly confused Tarrant watching and waiting, he picked the right choice - Craig David. Even on the question that netted him the £1million, Ingram was considering both another answer and walking away with the £500,000. But then out of the blue he selected the correct choice - and his life changed overnight. The Ingram's joy was short-lived. Within days they had been arrested and accused of cheating on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, which had an audience of 19million people. They found themselves in the dock 18 months after the historic win, accused of procuring the executon of a valuable security by deception. Read More. Related Articles. Read More. Related Articles. The Ingrams have always insisted they were innocent of any wrong doing but they were found guilty and each fined £15,000 and ordered to pay £10,000 towards prosecution costs, which was later increased to £65,000. They, along with the man accused of helping them cheat, Tecwen Whittock, were also give suspended sentences. Tarrant himself admits he had no clue something was wrong and that the couple seemed to have cheated their way to a win. The legendary TV host said: "If I thought there was anything wrong, I certainly would not have signed it (the cheque). "They seemed as normal as people who have just won a million pounds would be in the situation." Read More. Related Articles. Read More. Related Articles. But Ingram seemed to have a very particular way of answering each of the questions. He would read out each answer very carefully, sometimes repeating them more than once. And there was one key question for £500,000 that almost blew the entire plot wide open and exposed the scam. When Ingram was asked 'Baron Haussmann is best known for the planning of which city?' The four choices were Rome, Berlin, Paris and Athens. And this time Ingram thought he had the answer - he said Baron Haussmann sounded German, but this was wrong. Tarrant told him "Charles ten minutes ago, you thought it was A1" in relation to the Craig David question he had mysteriously got right despite leaning towards the wrong answer. Read More. Related Articles. Read More. Related Articles. But Ingram had made one key mistake, he had forgotten to carefully read out all of the answers so Whittock could help. The lecturer then made a really loud coughing noise and there are reports he was heard whispering 'No' loudly. Ingram seemed oblivious, so Whittock is said to have deployed the code for alerting him he had settled on the wrong answer. He blew his noise. Next, Ingram argued it couldn't be Paris and there are claims Whittock could be heard coughing as this was the correct answer. It seemed to stop Ingram mid-sentence but he couldn't shake his belief the correct answer was Berlin and once again there are reports of Whittock blowing his nose. Read More. Related Articles. Read More. Related Articles. Fellow contestant Larry Whittock was by now becoming suspicious because of all the noise Whittock was making. He later testified at the Ingram's trial and told the jury that he had thought there was a pattern of coughing - but stressed he wasn't certain how much it had helped the Major. Whittock has also always insisted he had suffered from a persistent cough for most of his life and also had hayfever and a dust allergy, which was troubling on the night. Quiz: Who Wants To Be A Millionaire. But the coughing and Ingram's unusual behaviour was enough to convince producers that he was cheating and just days after his big win the cheque was stopped. However, many believe the Ingram's were wrongly convicted, including Helen McCrory, who plays the Ingrams' barrister in ITV's Quiz, added: "The fact that a lot of people at the time didn’t hear the cough. "Chris Tarrant didn’t hear the cough, the person sitting opposite didn’t hear the cough, people either side didn’t hear the cough, yet for some reason he [Charles Ingram] heard the cough – really? "Now for some reason maybe he did. Maybe it was a complete set-up, or maybe he didn’t. You’re just looking for a truth." Who Wants To Be A Millionaire cheat Charles Ingram stunned as Quiz drama even gets his bed right. THE man who cheated his way to £1million pounds on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, can't believe how accurate the TV drama about his scandal is. Charles Ingram took to Twitter after the first episode of Quiz aired on ITV on Monday to reveal how much the show got right. The series premiere laid the groundwork about what lead to one of the biggest scandals in British TV history. Many of the scenes were shot inside Charles and his wife, Diana's, family home. Charles could not get over the attention to detail in Quiz even right down to the bed the couple slept in. He wrote: "That’s our BED! How the heck did they find our bed?" The former Army major also noticed other details on the show that were right on the money. Charles wrote about their old car: "I loved that old Honda. Loaded and such a smooth ride. The attention to detail is unnerving." He also described the most "cringeworthy" scene where actor Matthew Macfadyen who plays Charles, is forced to sing along with a higher ranking Army member who gets swept up in Major-General's Song from The Pirates of Penzance. But the dad also revealed that his wife has also been very taken with show, particularly Matthew's performance. He wrote: "Matthew is so damn good-looking I can’t sleep. Trying to kid myself I looked like that 19 years ago but failing miserably. "Diana called me ‘Matthew’ as I was brushing my teeth." The three-part series follows Charle and his wife before, during and after his infamous £1 million win on ITV quiz show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire in 2001, which was dogged by claims someone had coughed at the right answers to help him succeed. While Charles was eventually convicted on a single count of procuring the execution of a valuable security by deception after a lengthy trial. More in TV & Showbiz. FREE BRITNEY.
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