{"id":143370,"date":"2025-05-26T11:42:26","date_gmt":"2025-05-26T11:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/26\/who-wants-to-be-a-millionaire-contestant-scores-biggest-ever-loss\/"},"modified":"2025-05-26T11:42:26","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T11:42:26","slug":"who-wants-to-be-a-millionaire-contestant-scores-biggest-ever-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/26\/who-wants-to-be-a-millionaire-contestant-scores-biggest-ever-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Wants To Be A Millionaire&#8217; Contestant Scores Biggest Ever Loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe host of the UK\u2019s model of <em>Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?<\/em> was left open-mouthed after a contestant chanced his arm on the \u00a31million jackpot query, and misplaced.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/jeremy-clarkson\/\" id=\"auto-tag_jeremy-clarkson\" data-tag=\"jeremy-clarkson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jeremy Clarkson<\/a> (who additionally presents Amazon hit <em>Clarkson\u2019s Farm<\/em>) was asking the questions as contestant Nicholas Bennett breezed via the early rounds of his problem and located himself in possession of two lifelines as he confronted his ultimate \u00a31million query.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tHe had alread assured to go dwelling with \u00a3125,000, however determined to put all of it on the road as he confronted the query:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cWhich of these words, each coined by a famous writer, was derived from the title of a fairytale about three princes: Pandamonium, Serendipity, Utopia or Yahoo?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tBennett used his first lifeline to ask the host, however Clarkson admitted he had no thought, saying: \u201cI can\u2019t think of a fairytale that\u2019s about three princes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe contestant then phoned a pal, his flatmate Meg, who mentioned she didn\u2019t know both. Bennett might have caught together with his \u00a3500,000 win, however determined to go for it, nonetheless, with Clarkson reminding him:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201c\u00a3375,000 is what you\u2019re gambling. I know you still go away with a lot but\u2026\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tBennett then gave \u2018Yahoo\u2019 as his ultimate reply \u2013\u00a0prompting a spherical of grimacing noises from the viewers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tSadly for him, he\u2019d guessed fallacious. The proper reply was \u2018Serendipity\u2019, and Bennett\u2019s error meant he went dwelling \u201conly\u201d together with his beforehand pocketed \u00a3125,000, a consequence with which he appeared content material sufficient. While the viewers groaned, Bennett smiled: \u201cStill got \u00a3125,000.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tClarkson informed him:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cA couple things I\u2019m trying to work out is, is that the biggest loss we\u2019ve had in <em>Who Wants To Be A Millionaire<\/em> history, and I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve had a contestant that I\u2019ve enjoyed more than you.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] The host of the UK\u2019s model of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? was left open-mouthed after a contestant chanced his arm on the \u00a31million jackpot query, and misplaced.\u00a0 Jeremy Clarkson (who additionally presents Amazon hit Clarkson\u2019s Farm) was asking the questions as contestant Nicholas Bennett breezed via the early rounds of his problem [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":143372,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[3702,1691,1121,4041,11117],"class_list":{"0":"post-143370","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrity-gossip","8":"tag-biggest","9":"tag-contestant","10":"tag-loss","11":"tag-millionaire","12":"tag-scores"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}