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The fact that they actually aired the episode immediately after the documentary was just brilliant. The ratings for that one episode must have been through the roof.
ironically it makes sense for the final question. i would have done the same. Mega- is the prefix for 10^6, Giga- is 10^9, and Nano is 10^-9, all of which I know from basic science classes. Additionally, Megatron is from Transformers (I think he’s a decepticon?), Gigabit is a measurement usually used in internet speed, and a Nanomole is a chemistry unit. So I probably would go for Googol
@@DinosaurSuccess Yeah, but there are some questions called "tricked questions". Normal logic wouldn't work well if you encounter these questions and you never know if a question is a tricked question.
I actually did not know what Googol was but I ruled out the other 3 because two of them only had 6 and 9 zeros while Nano is less than one. But the way Charles was doing it was so illogical and hilarious like he's throwing darts in the dark and hoping from the heavens to win. I would've stopped at 32k or 64k if I were him after I made myself look dumb on the Craig David portion
Foolish to be willing to risk all of that monies/$468,000 over an answer he had no clue about! He told on himself! It also didn't help their case after they went into the back as husband and wife, arguing over his greed, to the top of their lungs, for others to hear. They had agreed to stop at a certain amount to avoid suspicion. Unfortunately $125,000.00 wasn't enough!🤷🏽♀That is more of the reason to deal in HONESTY! It will always be better to have less, and the peace therewith, then the riches of the many wicked, and the confusion that follows!👍🏽🫶🏾
I had such a hard time finishing this doc cause I was cringing so hard the whole time. There’s something about seeing people cheat that gives me unbearable second hand embarrassment lmao
Same, especially when he said ,,it could be Switzerland, or it could be France, but then again it could be Italy, or Netherlands" that made me cringe so hard, he made it so painstakingly obvious
The most striking thing for me is that as he eliminates the wrong answers he’s unable to evidence any of his choices with any reasoning. Absolutely bang on a cheat.
Exactly. I reasoned N Ireland w River Foyles. (Knowing Irish named Doyle and Boyle). Also, he has whatI recognize as psychopath eyes. 🕶 Also, the fraudster has no bounds w greediness. He could have at least tripped up earlier on and walked away w less $, proving the cougher wrong if he could not show how he knew the correct answer.
Another thing I noticed was Chris Tarrant really accentuated the fact that his "methods" or method of deduction made no sense, so it struck me funny because he didn't even know it was going on but he really made it seem obvious something was amiss
yeah since the beginning questions, his explanation of why he chose an answer is very vague. Even the host doesn't got his reasoning as well. Just funny obvious
Connnnnan NO JAIL sentence they even cheated that. It was SUSPENDED. So they through cheating and greed got off scot free even though they were caught cheating blatantly.
The bigger evidence (out of so many) is this one: he never seemed afraid to risk loosing what he already had by choosing an answer he was completely blind about. His behavior just wasn’t normal. A normal person would be very reluctant in risking half a million by just relying in luck or gut feeling. Even the host felt like he wasn’t conflicted at all. And do that multiple times during the game! That says everything
But he really blew it when the producer rang to tell Ingram they had a few doubts and until they're looked into it, he wasn't getting the money. And this is where he made his first big mistake. Instead of protesting and being genuinely pissed off- as any honest winner would be- his response was a sanguine one of, "Oh really? Gosh..." Just as any cop will tell you, when a innocent person is arrested they pace their cell, clearly agitated, and can't rest; the guilty have a "It's a fair cop!" attitude and settle down to face the inevitable.
For me it's his manner of saying "I've never heard of this or that" and second later after the cough he chose that answer. That was one of his mistakes - he should read through all the possibilities without claiming "Oh, I never heard of X" half the time
Judge: “Chris Ingram, do you plead guilty or not guilty?” “Oh gosh that’s a tough one. Hmm let me think. Guilty……that doesn’t seem right. Mmm not guilty…” *cough cough* “ Yes lock in b - not guilty please”
So when you watch his wife panicking and full of anxiety in the audience, now we know it was because he was pushing his luck and risking it all going to a level much further than they agreed to, not because she was scared of him losing the game.
Agreed, and the body language at the end of the show, so not what you'd expect, so low key and almost diminished a kind of celebration. Might be a stretch to imagine they were showing subliminal guilty consiences.
Like one of the production team said in this documentary, if he had called it a day at the £125K mark then its likely they would have let it go. That is exactly 12.5% of a million (not bad at all) - but he then pushed it and ended up with 0% of a million and nothing except criminal charges and an unwanted reputation.
I personally thought she was anxious because he would choose the wrong answer because her reaction were so evil and she even helped him her self by a caught it can make sense when the guy caughs constantly we say he is sick but they can't be both sick and have caughs !!
Yeah, the amount of time that happened was ludicrous. Like, if you know 3 answers can't be it and you can exclude them based on that (like how you can also arrive at googol because Megatron is a transformer and bits and moles are measurements)
Haha right, the amount of sneezes I have in public but have to hold them in, or make them as quiet as possible sucks. I used to be able to sneeze up a storm in the shops. Coughs included can't help but feel judged haha
@@stephenfox8685 Not really. Post can be used relatively to describe the aftermath of one event occuring. A post-covid world can mean any time after covid initially occured and blew up.
Alternate universe where the royal family got abolished in the 80s and Charles and Diana have to resort to cheating on Who wants to be a Millionaire, for money
I don't think so, by the time they caught on, if they were to disrupt his plan, he would have walked away with the money. It turned out better thus way...HE GOT CAUGHT DIDNT HE
Every question is a 1-in-4 chance. If he did know what the other three terms meant, then it's likely the only one he didn't know is the correct one. I'm not defending him but even a blind guess is statistically fairly strong. (Even more so if you get to 50-50, which I always felt was the best lifeline to use).
I don't he played smart here. He should have quit at 32,000 or 1 question more maybe. When you have lost all your lifeline and seemingly struggling, you're sure to cause suspicion if you won it all.
Game shows sometimes instruct contestants to act things out, make questions seem harder than they are. The first winner of the show, John Carpenter, was a good example of that. He stalled on the final question even though he knew the answer from the start.
The big problem was that Charles Ingram was so dumb he needed help on every answer. If Tecwen Whittock was up there, he would have only needed help on 1 question.
Tecwen Whitlock bummed out at £4000 when he was in the hot seat. Also, don't forget that most of the correct answers he coughed for Ingram were stolen from fellow contestants.
@@notyourfrind9415: Wait what… help me with that, please. How did Tecwen know all of the answers? (I was trying to figure out how the heck the other guy was SO dang good!!!)
@@notyourfrind9415: oooh… I just got to that part. I see. So the other people who aren’t in the hot seat can talk to each other about the answers?!?! Wild.
I know watching from the United States.I'm like screaming at the phone that Labor Day is in September.Memorial Day is in May.I don't know anything about Canada LOL😂
The coughing confirms it, but he kind of told on himself as well. He was never confident in any of his answers, he would be adamant about having never heard of something then pick it anyway, and he needed confirmation on certain questions too often running through all the answers 3-4 times. He seemingly accidentally got the answer right for the duration of the show. Insane. 🚩
Exactly Let’s also not forget Diana’s reaction after he “won”. She didn’t look at all thrilled. They were also overheard arguing in the dressing room afterwards. Even during that phone call when they told him he’s not getting any money, he was surprisingly calm. No way anyone would be that calm after being told you’re not getting a million
Yup, as the production team said if he’d had quit after the Holbein question, they probably would’ve escaped with the money… too bad their greed got the best of them
They really didn't suspect a fellow show participant, so he might have gotten away with it, had he not been so greedy that they could suss out the pattern.
I was there live as audiance member that night. Couldnt hear the coughs to be honest. But when he won 64k the presence off security heightened and everyone noticed it. Weeks later every audience member was interviewed buy the staff and police. Should off took 250k and no questions would have been asked.
The fact that you were that night was incredible - how did the security increase and did it make people suspicious about the cheating that was going on ?
Does anyone else just periodically look up this documentary every few years and watch the whole thing as procrastination? When moving house, for example.
To watch in hindsight, this is hilarious! How childish to use coughing for cheating! We did that back in 5th grade when being asked questions up front by the teacher! Hahahahaha
My favorite part of this is watching the wife's increasingly exasperated reactions as he keeps making it more and more obvious. It's like she wants to scream 'Holy s**t, you idiot, what is wrong with you?!' I'm watching this with ten minutes left and I'm seeing in the comments that it reveals she did scream at him afterward. Pretty easy to see why.
When you're married with a moron... I totally understand the gentleman (the one who became the genuine 3rd millionnaire) who understood that cheating was obvious and felt sick about it. It's like watching young people who get a degree by cheating while you spent months or years working your a** off.
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His reaction to being told he’s been accused of being a cheat and told he won’t be allowed to cash the cheque is priceless. As if you’d respond like that 🤣
Cheating or not, you’d expect a bigger reaction. My guess is the Major was a bit too reserved and a bit slow to react to incoming information. The amount of times he had to check that cough. They would’ve had more success if they had got the wife to do it. She seemed more on the ball. It’s probably what the fight was about. He had no sense of where the line could be drawn or how the show had been running long enough that the crew and production knew what a winner looked like and he didn’t fit. I wonder what their lives are like now…. Has England forgiven them? Are they still together?
@@joeyg448she has definitely went and got a new Rich man haha you can tell a mile off she’s money hungry and he was well put upto this hence her shouting afterwards
@@weepal4444 Hah. You’re probably right. Though, I think she understood they shouldn’t have pushed it as far as they did. I’d love to know what they were arguing about afterwards. My suspicion is that she was scolding him for going for the million because even though she was ‘money hungry’, she wasn’t a complete idiot. I think he got caught up in the moment and wanted not only the $ but the adulation and fuss of a $1 Mil win. I’ve tried to work out if they’re still together and it looks like they are. He did lose 3 toes in a ‘lawnmower accident’ which is hard to understand and happened about 9 years after his Millionaire appearance. They’ve also, it seems, branched out into insurance fraud.
"So why should we hire you?" "Oh my, I'm not entirely sure about that" "Perhaps because I'm stupid" *pause* "I'm always late" *pause* "I'm very reliable" *cough*
Everyone knew he was cheating, but they didn’t want to ruin the mood for the following contestant and audience during the show, so they kept quiet until the show was done to conduct a proper investigation.
Will never forget watching this on Easter Monday evening, followed by the actual episode straight after. This documentary was so frighteningly good but ouch, the greed.
@PiercdDrummer Oh no had no idea. Yes truly a catastrophic event. My thoughts are for all those that lost their lives that day. And here you have these two with this deceitful nonsense.
@@tsdobbi It would have been much less obvious. The reason the cheating became so obvious wasn't just because coughs came at the moment of the right answer being read, but Ingram's entire behaviour. He never seemed confident in his answers and apparently just stumbled through the whole thing like an idiot, waffled on and went back multiple times for confirmation, seemed weirdly laid-back for someone who had zero idea about like, 80% of the answers and never could give a reason for his answers or exclusions and even chose stuff he had crossed out. All of this stuff would've been alleviated by knowing the answer beforehand and he even could've just made up shit. Like with the Craig David question, he literally could've just said "oh yeah I think I remember seeing the album at the music store". Considering that despite the blatant cheating, they only felt confident that he was cheating by one of the last few questions, if all the other shit hadn't happened before, they probably never would've assumed he was cheating with just a few coughs strewn in.
Maybe, but it is possible that he remembered something funny and immediately continued joking with his girlfriend. He doesn't look like his attention is on Ingram's wife.
My favorite part was watching the wife losing her mind in the audience, knowing that the game was up, knowing they'd pressed their luck too far and being incapable of stopping it. She's watching a train wreck in slow motion and she's on the train. 😆
@@ghostmarco530 the main helper, that Tech "whatshisname", asked quitely to the other contestants if they knew the answer, like with the hat for example. As soon as someone else confirmed it, he would cough.
@@sgthulk9 .. so actually there were involved all the people in the studio 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 .. never enough of human tricks and money in this life ..😂😂 .. thnx for the explanation I was probably still asleep in the morning when I watched it .. regards
His biggest mistake was saying that he had no idea at the beginning of every question. He should have kept his mouth shut and made it seem like he was reasoning it out in his head. If the host asked, he should say, "I'm thinking about it," or some other excuse. Instead, he went from "I have no idea" to the right answer almost every time. He should have given vague responses like, "I know this somehow, I just need to think about it," or, "I've heard of this before but need a minute to recall." His next big mistake was listing all the possible answers out loud every time. He should have picked one or two to say, and then did process of elimination based on whether or not he heard a cough. And finally... he got greedy. If he had punched out at a lesser amount, the studio would not have been able to determine the pattern. What impresses me is that the tech genius guy doing the coughs actually knew a hell of a lot! The problem is, Major was actually a stupid person, so even with cheating to help him he could not cheat intelligently and this gave him away. If two really intelligent people did this, the studio would have no idea. In fact, I'm sure some have gotten away with it.
Actually, there were a fair few questions the Major knew the answers to right away, and was only using the coughing for confirmation. He certainly wasn't stupid, but I would agree he lacked the intelligence required to know when enough was enough.
True. Taking the first 5 questions off, which usually are easy, you'd need to guess right answer 10 times in a row, that's (1/4)^10 power or 1/1048576 chance he'd got THAT lucky :)
@@RK-su4hssomebody who knows something will tend to show that off by either saying the KNOW that is the wrong answer and usually also why. This guy was pretty much guessing all the way, and likely never in his life even came second to last in a pub trivia, always last.
@@RK-su4hs Human behavior. Also people completely floundering will try to exact clues from the host, in the form of thinking loud and observe the hosts's reaction. This guy wasn't looking at the host. He was listening intently. Also he was not very smart, as the producers opined, not expecting him to get more than a couple of questions before failing. He knew nothing compared to his wife, who was rolling her eyes when he was lost on some easy questions. And he overdid it.. when he finally got a cough to confirm an answer he repeated it so many times, that his poor accomplice nearly choked from all tbe coughing. Stupid people might not recognize stupid when they see it. They think stupid is normal, and smart is just lucky. Stupid people also think you can successfully guess your way with 1/1000 in odds. 1/1000 is not a coin toss.
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"A1 is the only band I've heard of here, I don't know who Craig David is. Never heard of him...I'm going Craig David. Never been more certain of anything in my life. Craig David, final answer".
So here is my thinking, I get he was cheating, but I can imagine myself picking someone I never heard of if I had fair confidence that the ones I did know DID NOT put that album out.
I yelled out "Craig David" before the answers were shown on the screen...lol The host somehow seems he knows that this man is cheating, methinks, because he continues to ask "How did you figure this one out?"
From his logic, it seems to be "I know who this other band is, that's not an album they've released, so therefore the one I've not heard of is probably the answer." That's actually a perfectly reasonable way to make an educated guess. He was just terrible at acting the part.
I love how when the producers said that they weren't getting the money and there was going to be a case, they were still extremely nice to each other. Lol
I would've loved for the couples behind Diana to be interviewed. They knew what was going on most of the time and were so entertained by Diana's reactions
@@wakt21exactly. I thought maybe they shot it in one day and cut in two segments, but then the hosts suit was different lol.. why tf would someone wear the exact same shirt twice? Hideous or not?
His wife's coughing at the Craig David question is faker than a kid faking being sick to get out of going to school lol like did anyone really think she was actually coughing?! Her dramatic chest clutch when she coughs is hilarious
I think it's talked about in another video about this, but about halfway through this run, they show a clip of the couple behind her and they are mouthing something like "she's cheating." They knew, but I don't think they could do anything about it.
Yeah, it's such a weird million pound question. Asking for that and the answers are: Googol A unit of measurement you should know with basic chemistry A unit of measurement you should know with basic computer stuff like bits and bytes A fucking transformer from a superhit 80s show. Like, the Craig David question at least had 4 singers/bands and the builder question had 4 cities. The million dollar question straight up only had one answer that can be a number. It would've been like if the Craig David question asked "who had the 2000 album whatever" and the answers were Craig David, a molerat, the planet Jupiter and Franz Ferdinand the second.
Today this question sounds absurdly easy, but even back then you'd expect everyone getting that far to immediately exclude byte and mol. And what number ends on "tron"? Regardless of whether you know the character, that doesn't sound like a number word at all.
A man so unknowledgeable that he didn’t know that the famous Jaqueline Kennedy became Jackie O (for Onassis) and died with that name (and the funeral was aired live worldwide), could never have gotten to $1mil on his own.
Fascinating stuff! I was THRILLED when Ribert Brydges won. He was our neighbour at the time and you honestly could not meet a lovelier man. Very kind and genuine.
What's really funny is when someone starts winning, the house gets suspicious. Just like in gambling casinos. When someone hits, the casino claims an error occurred
they know that statistically he should've bailed out long time ago. using up all your lifelines at the beginning indicates yoy wont know enough to make it to the end
Funny how he had a comfortably paying job in the British Army before he pulled this bullshit and then got booted out the Army, Major's got quite a bit of money according to my brother who was in the Army's Parachute regiment and was mates with a couple Majors, not this clown thankfully
It's not greed. Just cause someone wants to make alot of money doesn't make it greed. I guess whatever you tell yourself to make you feel like your salary actually leaves something for someone other then yourself. Like your kids
@@jacobhall8267 dude... when somebody says . JUST 32,000. Yes thats greed. You can say... 32,000 is a good deal of money but we were aiming for 6 figures. Today alot of people work paycheck to paycheck. And what you just said to that guy was fucking nasty. Why don't you set the right example for YOUR KIDS and apologize to him. That was incredibly disrespectful. Apologize to him RIGHT NOW
@@jacobhall8267 so, it's OK to cheat on a game show with other contestants who want to play the game by the rules are around him? It's OK for his kids to be bullied to shit about the insane plan he pulled off on live TV?
It's like Rosie Ruiz never admitting she cheated in the Boston Marathon, they just won't cop to it. Same with Pete Rose denying he bet on baseball, until he could profit off admitting he did it.
It's that american mindset. Never admit a failure. Aside from toxifying everyone in the US towards possible wrong or failure... also made a culture where there totes will be a die-hard community saying he didn't cheat which they can exploit.
What's really a pity is that he did the whole thing in autopilot mode. He had good intuition on multiple questions, but he waited every time for multiple hints, as if three coughs were absolutely necessary to choose his answer. For sure at that moment he was really willing not to loose the money he had just earned, but by his attitude he was really not thinking by himself while having this cheating system as a hint, but clearly relying entirely on it. Every answering phase looked exactly the same and this was naturally suspicious.
Could also be a coincidence he read out the correct answer first by guessing. He still looked for confirmation by reading the rest of the options. Example, he guessed hat on question 14 but still wanted a cough to confirm
Honestly, he seems really thick. Like, clearly the dumbest of the three Ingrams, yet the one to try and take home the million. The way he got stuck on the Berlin answer, or kept saying "I've never heard of X", only to be forced to pick that answer made me laugh so hard.
@@Smashingblouse Have you watched it in full? Wife Diana and her brother Adrian had both already had their time on the show. We don't know if they attempted to cheat on the first day, but the coughing plan was very quickly put together overnight. Tecwen Whittock might have been more clever, but he hadn't yet made it to the hot seat, and he wasn't related to the Ingrams - he was roped in. He wasn't the only help they had - Whittock got two answers by conferring with another contestant, and Diana helped on another question.
@@sharoncox4776 Someone who was uploading random things they had taped uploaded the documentary as part of that, I think the BBC got wind of it and copystruck it.
The crazy thing is, it’s just after the £32K question and I got them all right merely by guessing. Well, actually I thought the cheese was from the Netherlands so I wouldn’t have made it to the £32K one
@@LissyVee I love playing along with these game shows. I really like prices right and wheel of Fortune. I do pretty well playing at home, but I have a feeling that if I were on TV or even in front of an audience, I would hyperventilate, have an anxiety attack and pass out cold lol I can talk a lot and be very friendly with people I don’t know but being the center of attention like back in the days of high school and doing book reports and stuff in front of my class was enough to really cause me to get lightheaded and almost passed out. Even if I knew what I was talking about. And if I were on one of those game shows I know, without a doubt it would not end well for me. 😂 and I would be so nervous that I would not be able to answer the questions properly or in time. Even if I knew the answer. But man, it would be fun!!!! I was playing the Clock game with my nine and 11-year-old grandsons the other day. They were trying to guess the price of something that I had so I told them about that game and we started doing it. It was hilarious lol it took them a minute to really understand how to go about doing it but once they caught on, they were having a good time. When that game show Minute to Win It was on my whole family played it at the Fourth of July. It’s been years ago like when that show was really popular. And this was like my extended family like aunts and uncles and cousins and stuff.
+@Cbirduk1990, He'd be forgivable, if he had admitted the truth, but he still lies to this day. If he had said "me and my wife were 50k in debt, as a Major I thought I'd be retired by now, I wasn't stealing from poor people, I knew what I was doing was wrong, and rightly so I was caught, and I would encourage others to not look for a quick fix like I did". At least that way, I'd forgive him, I'd never want to share a Pint with him, but at least I'd say "he's Human, anyone of us could have been in his situation".
@Izzyizzyizzy123 r u kidding? Someone caught cheating on a hugely popular worldwide quiz show wins a milliion and you think that's not even a story? 😂
As a teacher, making multiple-choice questions, we always had an utterly ridiculously wrong answer, a correct answer and an answer that at first glance could be right until you thought twice and one designed to trip you up if you were rushing. It took skill to write the answers in that way (especially when it was a grammar test and not a general knowledge test) but I can see that pattern in some of the proposed answers.
It made sense in context. This episode would have aired in 2001, Coldplay's major label debut was a year earlier. They didn't attain the major radio success until later in the decade, around 2006-08. Most of their earlier albums did well enough but most of the singles didn't have a ton of lasting airplay. In 2000 they were really just another rock band. Got to remember when viewing all these questions this was 2001. Even the "googol" question makes sense in context.
His problem was that on the 125k and 250k questions he had the right answer in the first place and just needed confirmation of his instinct. He then thought he had the right answer on the 500k question and that's where it really starts to unravel and becomes really obvious with performing u-turns. He didn't help himself either by continually saying things like "I really don't know" and "I'm sure it's not" during the questions. If he'd just remained calm and didn't talk so much and just slowly went round the answers without talking too much he could have convincingly built up his certainty over the correct answer when it was given to him. Also on the 125k question he dismisses Van Eyk as he'd never heard of him (although you don't see that bit in this documentary) but on other questions he goes for answers BECAUSE he's never heard of them!
Exactly. So stupid it’s unbelievable. Why say: I have never heard of, I really don’t know, I’m really not sure etc, and then chose that answer! He should have kept quiet, said if anything like: I know this one or I have two alternatives etc. So greedy and came off as a brainless stupid weirdo
IKR? They still would’ve been pretty damn rich Greed truly is the undoing of many Granted many might’ve been still suspicious, but doubt they would’ve had sufficient enough evidence
He could’ve even gone to 250k. He kind of already knew the Anthony Eden was a hat, the coughs were mostly unnecessary. But the last two were way too obvious. That’s what did him in.
Part of the problem is, he usually said “I’ve got no idea” or “I’m not certain” indicating he was just taking a wild guess. I’m no statistician but GUESSES aren’t correct 100% of the time, as Charles’ were.
Update: After this scandal came out, he had to resign from the military. Currently, he is a "Director of Operations" for his wifes candle business and has declared bankruptcy 4 times.
Charles just wasn’t suitable for that kind of scam. He was a mess, acting completely suspicious. The way he would outrule possible answers only to then choose them was really hard to watch. I’m sure this could have worked with a mastermind on the chair who would make up plausible explanations as to why he chose his respective answer.
1) google was just starting a company when this aired, it wasnt a fun fact like it is today. 2) the questions touch many areas of knowledge (history the question before, biology earlier) and 99% of contestants dont have knowledge of all these areas.. 3) tecwen wittock got lucky id say knowing all these questions. And he didnt know the hat question, normally a contestant would be out at that point! The point being by the time youve gone through 15 questions most people are out.
Don't forget the year this came out: 2001. The internet itself was just starting to became a mainstay for a majority of households and Google itself started as a company only a couple of years prior. Today, it's a common fun fact that Google is a play on a term meaning a number of a 1 followed by a hundred zeros, and in today's Millionaire game may only a $1000 question. But at the time? Only hard core tech nerds or serious mathematicians would know.
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A most interesting show!!!!!!! 56:09
A band is blowing Dixie, double four time
You feel alright when you hear the music ring
Why not maybe she could've wore a mask,when she coughed.
Googoi is spelt wrong 😊
Fun fact: when this documentary first went out, the first advert in the ad break was for Benelyn cough syrup 😂
Classic ITV 😂😂😂
That’s actually true I remember myself.
@@ThatBritishSnep lmao yes - absolutely brilliant hahaha
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It was a tickley cough
The fact that they actually aired the episode immediately after the documentary was just brilliant. The ratings for that one episode must have been through the roof.
he should've put a zapper that has a slight zap in his bum, and he would've got away with it with no evidence 😂😂
@@brandonstevenson3304 like the more recent chess championship cheater that used remote control anal beads? Oh it's true.
It actually never aired
@@lisabell2573 if the episode did air, the ratings would have gone through the roof. But still ingram is still defo a cheater.
They never aired the episode
Imagine being on this show and constantly saying you've never heard of something only to choose that answer.
ironically it makes sense for the final question. i would have done the same. Mega- is the prefix for 10^6, Giga- is 10^9, and Nano is 10^-9, all of which I know from basic science classes.
Additionally, Megatron is from Transformers (I think he’s a decepticon?), Gigabit is a measurement usually used in internet speed, and a Nanomole is a chemistry unit. So I probably would go for Googol
@@DinosaurSuccess Yeah, but there are some questions called "tricked questions". Normal logic wouldn't work well if you encounter these questions and you never know if a question is a tricked question.
I actually did not know what Googol was but I ruled out the other 3 because two of them only had 6 and 9 zeros while Nano is less than one. But the way Charles was doing it was so illogical and hilarious like he's throwing darts in the dark and hoping from the heavens to win. I would've stopped at 32k or 64k if I were him after I made myself look dumb on the Craig David portion
"Craig David, I've never heard of him. Craig David, I have no idea who he is"
Cough. 10 seconds later.
"Yeah, I'll go with Craig David. Final answer"
Foolish to be willing to risk all of that monies/$468,000 over an answer he had no clue about! He told on himself! It also didn't help their case after they went into the back as husband and wife, arguing over his greed, to the top of their lungs, for others to hear. They had agreed to stop at a certain amount to avoid suspicion. Unfortunately $125,000.00 wasn't enough!🤷🏽♀That is more of the reason to deal in HONESTY! It will always be better to have less, and the peace therewith, then the riches of the many wicked, and the confusion that follows!👍🏽🫶🏾
I used to watch this show with my parents when I was in high school and it makes me miss my Mom. Thank you for the nostalgia.
God bless you❤ your statement I miss my mom made my heart ache💔 loads of love to you ❤
I had such a hard time finishing this doc cause I was cringing so hard the whole time. There’s something about seeing people cheat that gives me unbearable second hand embarrassment lmao
Same, especially when he said ,,it could be Switzerland, or it could be France, but then again it could be Italy, or Netherlands" that made me cringe so hard, he made it so painstakingly obvious
OMG me too!!!!! 😭😭😭😭😭🥴
Every time his head went to one side
Same I fw: most of it LOL
Soo true 😅
The fact that 3 of the same family members played here is suspicious enough
That's what I thought.
I was thinking the same. Like One, two ok, but 3? Like give some other family a try. This family was playing Monopoly on millonare.
And that the same people go over and over and over.
Yes, some insider nonsense was at play
Yeah, the family already won big, give another family or person a go, that's life changing money.
I could not prevent me from burst into laugh at the "no" hidden within the cough 🤣
Yeah, they were really stupid 😂
Same here
He was so dumb he even forgot his own cheating system 😂😂
@@Mark-lj1dj (Cough) No
That’s what exposed the whole thing I believe, but I got a great laugh out of that part!
“How old are your daughters?”
“I am not familiar with my daughters, ummmm…. *wife coughs* 11, 7 and 6
😂😂😂
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The most striking thing for me is that as he eliminates the wrong answers he’s unable to evidence any of his choices with any reasoning. Absolutely bang on a cheat.
Exactly. I reasoned N Ireland w River Foyles. (Knowing Irish named Doyle and Boyle). Also, he has whatI recognize as psychopath eyes. 🕶 Also, the fraudster has no bounds w greediness. He could have at least tripped up earlier on and walked away w less $, proving the cougher wrong if he could not show how he knew the correct answer.
He also assumes because the Baron has a German last name he would have designed Berlin and not Paris.
Another thing I noticed was Chris Tarrant really accentuated the fact that his "methods" or method of deduction made no sense, so it struck me funny because he didn't even know it was going on but he really made it seem obvious something was amiss
yeah since the beginning questions, his explanation of why he chose an answer is very vague. Even the host doesn't got his reasoning as well. Just funny obvious
what the fuck are you talking about
Host: Who wants to be a millionaire?
Charles: Me
Woman: *cough*
Charles: Us
🤣 good one
You know it
Stop ittttt 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🪦🪦🪦🪦🪦🪦🪦🪦🪦⚰️⚰️⚰️⚰️⚰️⚰️⚰️⚰️🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣💀💀💀💀💀💀💀
Underrated. *cough
Lool😂
They could have left with 125k but they left with nothing and a jail sentence.
And they were fined thousands, too...
Too greedy that led to his downfall
Connnnnan
NO JAIL sentence they even cheated that. It was SUSPENDED.
So they through cheating and greed got off scot free even though they were caught cheating blatantly.
Often becomes like that when ya get too greedy
They was innocent
*Coughs*
I'm gonna go with guilty
The bigger evidence (out of so many) is this one: he never seemed afraid to risk loosing what he already had by choosing an answer he was completely blind about. His behavior just wasn’t normal. A normal person would be very reluctant in risking half a million by just relying in luck or gut feeling. Even the host felt like he wasn’t conflicted at all. And do that multiple times during the game! That says everything
bad actor
But he really blew it when the producer rang to tell Ingram they had a few doubts and until they're looked into it, he wasn't getting the money. And this is where he made his first big mistake. Instead of protesting and being genuinely pissed off- as any honest winner would be- his response was a sanguine one of, "Oh really? Gosh..." Just as any cop will tell you, when a innocent person is arrested they pace their cell, clearly agitated, and can't rest; the guilty have a "It's a fair cop!" attitude and settle down to face the inevitable.
For me it's his manner of saying "I've never heard of this or that" and second later after the cough he chose that answer. That was one of his mistakes - he should read through all the possibilities without claiming "Oh, I never heard of X" half the time
But sometimes the contestant for whatever reason hooks on the right answer without knowing why. Is a gut feeling
It's weird I honestly didn't know any of the questions except for Onassis,and I gut guess them all correct.
Judge: “Chris Ingram, do you plead guilty or not guilty?”
“Oh gosh that’s a tough one. Hmm let me think. Guilty……that doesn’t seem right. Mmm not guilty…”
*cough cough*
“ Yes lock in b - not guilty please”
Final cough answer?.
Chris wasn't guilty but CHARLES was... 😳🤔😂😂😂
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂👍
That’s hilarious
Can i call a friend oh gosh he’s behind me oh gosh Sorry at home.
So when you watch his wife panicking and full of anxiety in the audience, now we know it was because he was pushing his luck and risking it all going to a level much further than they agreed to, not because she was scared of him losing the game.
it's the same
Agreed, and the body language at the end of the show, so not what you'd expect, so low key and almost diminished a kind of celebration. Might be a stretch to imagine they were showing subliminal guilty consiences.
She knew at the end they were gonna end up getting rumbled.
Like one of the production team said in this documentary, if he had called it a day at the £125K mark then its likely they would have let it go. That is exactly 12.5% of a million (not bad at all) - but he then pushed it and ended up with 0% of a million and nothing except criminal charges and an unwanted reputation.
I personally thought she was anxious because he would choose the wrong answer because her reaction were so evil and she even helped him her self by a caught it can make sense when the guy caughs constantly we say he is sick but they can't be both sick and have caughs !!
I find it amazing that he hadn’t heard of the answers to many of the questions, but he STILL got them right?
That would have rung alarm bells!!
Yeah, the amount of time that happened was ludicrous. Like, if you know 3 answers can't be it and you can exclude them based on that (like how you can also arrive at googol because Megatron is a transformer and bits and moles are measurements)
This is so funny because it would never work in a post-covid world. The second someone coughs now everyone is immediately suspicious
yet epstein didn’t kill himself and nobody cares our elite would’ve got exposed
Haha right, the amount of sneezes I have in public but have to hold them in, or make them as quiet as possible sucks. I used to be able to sneeze up a storm in the shops. Coughs included can't help but feel judged haha
Just so you know, post means after. In other words, over. Therefore, it would be in the past and no one would panic.
@@stephenfox8685 Not really. Post can be used relatively to describe the aftermath of one event occuring. A post-covid world can mean any time after covid initially occured and blew up.
Lmao good point.
Their names being Charles and Diana for some reason make it funnier
Right?.
😂😂😂 I know right
Alternate universe where the royal family got abolished in the 80s and Charles and Diana have to resort to cheating on Who wants to be a Millionaire, for money
I hear coronation Street question the time i am reading your comment
Didn’t notice, now I can’t 😂
Staff should've started coughing for wrong answers lol
Genius
have
I don't think so, by the time they caught on, if they were to disrupt his plan, he would have walked away with the money. It turned out better thus way...HE GOT CAUGHT DIDNT HE
@MI.101 an English teacher with free time lol
LOL
“I do think it’s Googol, but I don’t know what a Googol is”
-Charles Ingram, 2001
Every question is a 1-in-4 chance. If he did know what the other three terms meant, then it's likely the only one he didn't know is the correct one. I'm not defending him but even a blind guess is statistically fairly strong. (Even more so if you get to 50-50, which I always felt was the best lifeline to use).
@@railenherman6482 cough
But he hadn't a clue what the other 3 were either , he taught it was nanomole initially
Just like he went for Craig David even though he's never heard of him.
How in the actual fuck has he not heard of Craig David 😂
'Craig David... never heard of him'... 2 minutes later 'yep, I'll go with Craig David!'
Never watched coronation street or heard of Craig David haha that's evidence enough he was cheating
Imagine Craig David saw this and got offended 😂
"Coldplay... never heard of 'em.."
(Hmmm... was Jackie O. married to a man whose last intial was "O"..? The *suspense* is killing me!)
@@erinthesystem9608 Yeah., not knowing Jackie Kennedy's second husband is really bad.
How could you not know Craig David 🤣 🤷🏾♂️🤦🏽♂️ that will do me
He was exaggerating his performance and taking too long to make a choice. It was obvious
The time wasn't unusual but the conduct was.
I don't he played smart here. He should have quit at 32,000 or 1 question more maybe. When you have lost all your lifeline and seemingly struggling, you're sure to cause suspicion if you won it all.
Isn't that funny everytime someone wants more it always fail .@muazzamshaikh2049
Game shows sometimes instruct contestants to act things out, make questions seem harder than they are. The first winner of the show, John Carpenter, was a good example of that. He stalled on the final question even though he knew the answer from the start.
Alot of contestants did the same
the man sitting behind his wife laughing when she double coughs is sending me 😂😂
At what time?
That was freaking hilarious 😂😂
It wasn't her doing the coughing it was the other contestant
25:35
@@vaitoloa5473she DID double cough on the Craig David answer cause Whitlock was quiet and the husband was stumped.
LOL Tecwen slipping in that "no" after coughing reminds me of those people who try to unsuccessfully cover their fart with a cough
Hahahaha good one
Once in school i sneezed and farted at the same time that was in 6th grade and I’ve thought of that moment every day since 😂😂😂
@@TheReelMcCoySCI've done that lol
*cough*
-whats your name?
-charles ingram?
*cough*
-yes, definitely. Charles ingram.
😂
And the asking "God" one ! 😂
Lol brilliant comment!
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The big problem was that Charles Ingram was so dumb he needed help on every answer. If Tecwen Whittock was up there, he would have only needed help on 1 question.
Tecwen Whitlock bummed out at £4000 when he was in the hot seat. Also, don't forget that most of the correct answers he coughed for Ingram were stolen from fellow contestants.
@@notyourfrind9415: Wait what… help me with that, please.
How did Tecwen know all of the answers? (I was trying to figure out how the heck the other guy was SO dang good!!!)
@@notyourfrind9415: oooh… I just got to that part. I see. So the other people who aren’t in the hot seat can talk to each other about the answers?!?! Wild.
That's why they never let him up there.😂
But he went home with £1k😂😂😂
This is how Monty Python would have executed the same scam, this is comedy gold
for real.😂
I know watching from the United States.I'm like screaming at the phone that Labor Day is in September.Memorial Day is in May.I don't know anything about Canada LOL😂
The coughing confirms it, but he kind of told on himself as well. He was never confident in any of his answers, he would be adamant about having never heard of something then pick it anyway, and he needed confirmation on certain questions too often running through all the answers 3-4 times. He seemingly accidentally got the answer right for the duration of the show. Insane. 🚩
Exactly
Let’s also not forget Diana’s reaction after he “won”. She didn’t look at all thrilled. They were also overheard arguing in the dressing room afterwards.
Even during that phone call when they told him he’s not getting any money, he was surprisingly calm.
No way anyone would be that calm after being told you’re not getting a million
Greed surpassed stupidity. A Major Idiot et al, who was snapped! Karma...
Yup, as the production team said if he’d had quit after the Holbein question, they probably would’ve escaped with the money… too bad their greed got the best of them
They really didn't suspect a fellow show participant, so he might have gotten away with it, had he not been so greedy that they could suss out the pattern.
His Mouth Gave Him Away ! Talks Too Much !!!😞 To Come To Think Of It ! Talking Is Not The Problem Here ! It Is What You Say , I Guess !!!!!
I was there live as audiance member that night. Couldnt hear the coughs to be honest. But when he won 64k the presence off security heightened and everyone noticed it. Weeks later every audience member was interviewed buy the staff and police. Should off took 250k and no questions would have been asked.
The fact that you were that night was incredible - how did the security increase and did it make people suspicious about the cheating that was going on ?
when did u realise he was cheating lol
Tell us more about that night c’mon! You witnessed history
Does anyone else just periodically look up this documentary every few years and watch the whole thing as procrastination? When moving house, for example.
Can agree
Currently doing that very thing right now
Honestly I forget about this until it randomly pops into my head and I have to rewatch it 😂
I watched this 5 years ago and came back again today to watch this
Omg I do that 🤣🤣🤣 I sometimes want to watch it but then I think “no I watched it last year, wait til next year and it’ll feel more fresh”😂😂😂
The second hand embarrassment is IMMENSE
For real.
That wife is cringe queen
Right?! 😅😅
@@LorisBenedictThe wife should take the money, what is he doing there anyway?
I love your username
25:37 LOL the people in the back noticed she was coughing to give him the answer and they started laughing
Wow! Nice catch
I love the facepalm he did 😂
well noticed
And when she said to them "Catch me when I fall on the floor" just before Charles "won" the million. I bet they were thinking, yeah we won't 😂
When she said to them, "Catch me when I fall on the floor" just before Charles "won" the million. I'll bet they were thinking, yeah we won't 😂
This is so fun to watch lol. It's so crazy the things people will do. Thanks for uploading.
this was more entertaiing than anything netflix has to offer, appreciate the upload hoss.
The dramatic music every time they introduce another person 😂
The music is my favorite part
😂
It’s the soundtrack from WWTBAM, one of the most iconic game show soundtracks ever
Welcome to the 2000s
Cant believe i just spent over an hour of my life watching this
But its so good
Your not alone :)
The wife cannot act!! Lol
It was a waste, when you know the ending
Ha yeah. Plus some of the English accents have me confused
Ive watched it several times!!
Host: Have you got a strategy?
Charles: Yes, I've got one and it's called cough strategy.
To watch in hindsight, this is hilarious! How childish to use coughing for cheating! We did that back in 5th grade when being asked questions up front by the teacher! Hahahahaha
Shouldn't cheat at all on any game show.The contestants should be fair just like the host and staff.
Not even coughing id be like “EKDKKS THREE ERGGH”
The coughs are so obvious, why didn't anyone puck that up????😅😅😅😅
I knowwww how cringing 😂😂😂🥴🥴
@@littleblackbabycatthey did pick it up lol did you watch this video!?!!?
I love nostalgic television lol!!!! The clothes the camera quality …I miss being younger lol 😂
Same 😊
😆 simpler times
Me too!!
same!! wish i could relive my childhood
What's crazy is i try to increase the quality of the video only to realize, it's an old video, there was no 4K so the video can't get any clearer lol
My favorite part of this is watching the wife's increasingly exasperated reactions as he keeps making it more and more obvious. It's like she wants to scream 'Holy s**t, you idiot, what is wrong with you?!'
I'm watching this with ten minutes left and I'm seeing in the comments that it reveals she did scream at him afterward. Pretty easy to see why.
near the end, it is reported that had a huge row in the dreasing room. 😂 not exactly what youd expect after "winning" a million.
yeah thats what i thought too, she was getting increasingly annoyed at him because he was making it too obvious
Oh she let him have it in the back room. Freaking hilarious comments…! ❤
Her initial coughing and facial expressions is was caused suspicion to begin with. Funny she gets mad at him for making it obvious
When you're married with a moron...
I totally understand the gentleman (the one who became the genuine 3rd millionnaire) who understood that cheating was obvious and felt sick about it.
It's like watching young people who get a degree by cheating while you spent months or years working your a** off.
“Haussmann is more of German name not Italian… I think it’s Berlin 😂😂 it can’t be Paris” 😂😂
Just for information: Prefect Baron Georges Eugène Haussmann was from the Alsace region at the Rhine river which forms the border to Germany and where people once spoke a German dialect (now only a minority), with most cities, villages and people still having names of German origin.
As if it would be Berlin just because it's a German sounding name 😂😂 like people never worked abroad in the old days.
His reaction to being told he’s been accused of being a cheat and told he won’t be allowed to cash the cheque is priceless. As if you’d respond like that 🤣
I can tell he was absolutely gobsmacked
I thought it was a British thing😅, assumed y’all took bad news gracefully.
Cheating or not, you’d expect a bigger reaction. My guess is the Major was a bit too reserved and a bit slow to react to incoming information. The amount of times he had to check that cough. They would’ve had more success if they had got the wife to do it. She seemed more on the ball. It’s probably what the fight was about. He had no sense of where the line could be drawn or how the show had been running long enough that the crew and production knew what a winner looked like and he didn’t fit. I wonder what their lives are like now…. Has England forgiven them? Are they still together?
@@joeyg448she has definitely went and got a new Rich man haha you can tell a mile off she’s money hungry and he was well put upto this hence her shouting afterwards
@@weepal4444 Hah. You’re probably right. Though, I think she understood they shouldn’t have pushed it as far as they did. I’d love to know what they were arguing about afterwards. My suspicion is that she was scolding him for going for the million because even though she was ‘money hungry’, she wasn’t a complete idiot. I think he got caught up in the moment and wanted not only the $ but the adulation and fuss of a $1 Mil win. I’ve tried to work out if they’re still together and it looks like they are. He did lose 3 toes in a ‘lawnmower accident’ which is hard to understand and happened about 9 years after his Millionaire appearance. They’ve also, it seems, branched out into insurance fraud.
I gave a job interview… and we had technical questions. He read each question out loud and the only thing I thought of was this lmao
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😂😂
Lmao
Another interviewer on the panel coughing to give you the right answer haha
Sir...is that an ear piece 😂
"So why should we hire you?"
"Oh my, I'm not entirely sure about that"
"Perhaps because I'm stupid"
*pause*
"I'm always late"
*pause*
"I'm very reliable"
*cough*
UA-cam recommendations actually coming in clutch this was great
What's even more hilarious, is after they were found guilty, few years later they were then found guilty of insurance fraud 🤣
They werent even locked up
They did make a musiical called QUIZ
😂
@@sasskvetch8617 agreed even chris T kept indirectly reminding him of the debts he owed
How the hell did this weapon become a Major in the British army 🙄 no crook like a posh crook.
He keeps on saying "I don't know" to everything and then gets all the answers right? That alone smells of rotten fish.
the host could not smell the fish
Everyone knew he was cheating, but they didn’t want to ruin the mood for the following contestant and audience during the show, so they kept quiet until the show was done to conduct a proper investigation.
@@shahidnasir7851 The host is busy hosting the show, he hasnt got time to watch and listen to everything happening. He is focused on doing his job.
Will never forget watching this on Easter Monday evening, followed by the actual episode straight after. This documentary was so frighteningly good but ouch, the greed.
What was weird watching this for the first time, I hadn't a clue the recording/airing was two days before 9/11. @4:50 in
Frightening, isn't it? I still feel for all those who lost their lives that day. @@PiercdDrummer
@SteffLoui88 hahahah frighteningly good LOL
Hahahahaha the greed LOL
Hahahaha not frightening has no relation LOL
@SteffLoui88 hahahah frighteningly good LOL
Hahahahaha the greed LOL
Hahahaha not frightening has no relation LOL
@PiercdDrummer Oh no had no idea. Yes truly a catastrophic event. My thoughts are for all those that lost their lives that day. And here you have these two with this deceitful nonsense.
They should have coughed when the host was reading the answers out😅
That wouldnt have been any less obvious that there is a cough on the right answer every time the host reads the questions. More efficient? Sure.
It would be less obvious in how you can make up an answer. Such as saying something silly as "I dont recognize Craig David"
I was thinking that haha
Whittock needed time to think on some of the answers.
@@tsdobbi It would have been much less obvious. The reason the cheating became so obvious wasn't just because coughs came at the moment of the right answer being read, but Ingram's entire behaviour.
He never seemed confident in his answers and apparently just stumbled through the whole thing like an idiot, waffled on and went back multiple times for confirmation, seemed weirdly laid-back for someone who had zero idea about like, 80% of the answers and never could give a reason for his answers or exclusions and even chose stuff he had crossed out.
All of this stuff would've been alleviated by knowing the answer beforehand and he even could've just made up shit.
Like with the Craig David question, he literally could've just said "oh yeah I think I remember seeing the album at the music store".
Considering that despite the blatant cheating, they only felt confident that he was cheating by one of the last few questions, if all the other shit hadn't happened before, they probably never would've assumed he was cheating with just a few coughs strewn in.
25:30 The man sitting behind her reacts to her cough like “ She’s obviously coughing at the right answer 😂 does anyone else notice this?”
Some comments did yes, they were laughing too at how much of a fool Diana is 🤣
I noticed that too 😂 I thought he’s even into her
Good eye 👊🏼
hahahaha yeah even he looks like he's laughing at the absurdity of it
Maybe, but it is possible that he remembered something funny and immediately continued joking with his girlfriend.
He doesn't look like his attention is on Ingram's wife.
My favorite part was watching the wife losing her mind in the audience, knowing that the game was up, knowing they'd pressed their luck too far and being incapable of stopping it. She's watching a train wreck in slow motion and she's on the train. 😆
I don't understand. If she knew all the answers and was so intellegent. Why did she not go on the show instead of her husband and win legit .
@@sleepyjoescumbag1663 She had previously been on the show and only got to 32,000.
@@ghostmarco530 the main helper, that Tech "whatshisname", asked quitely to the other contestants if they knew the answer, like with the hat for example. As soon as someone else confirmed it, he would cough.
@@sgthulk9 .. so actually there were involved all the people in the studio 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 .. never enough of human tricks and money in this life ..😂😂 .. thnx for the explanation I was probably still asleep in the morning when I watched it .. regards
@@sleepyjoescumbag1663she didn’t know all the answers. She was just embarrassed that he was being so obvious and clearly taking it too far
His biggest mistake was saying that he had no idea at the beginning of every question. He should have kept his mouth shut and made it seem like he was reasoning it out in his head. If the host asked, he should say, "I'm thinking about it," or some other excuse. Instead, he went from "I have no idea" to the right answer almost every time. He should have given vague responses like, "I know this somehow, I just need to think about it," or, "I've heard of this before but need a minute to recall."
His next big mistake was listing all the possible answers out loud every time. He should have picked one or two to say, and then did process of elimination based on whether or not he heard a cough.
And finally... he got greedy. If he had punched out at a lesser amount, the studio would not have been able to determine the pattern.
What impresses me is that the tech genius guy doing the coughs actually knew a hell of a lot! The problem is, Major was actually a stupid person, so even with cheating to help him he could not cheat intelligently and this gave him away. If two really intelligent people did this, the studio would have no idea. In fact, I'm sure some have gotten away with it.
So true. He has no clue but always “guesses” The right answer??
In fairness he had a Master's degree and passed a MENSA test showing he wasn't without a good deal of intelligence. Lacking common sense definitely.
Actually, there were a fair few questions the Major knew the answers to right away, and was only using the coughing for confirmation. He certainly wasn't stupid, but I would agree he lacked the intelligence required to know when enough was enough.
@@Paul1510WBintelligence and general knowledge and common sense are not always equivalent.
@@KJ-lb4tj I agree.
Charles: I won a million bucks! Charles to the coughing man: Here’s 10 bucks for cough medicine 😅
imagine if another person in the audience would cough! at the wrong time!😂😂😂
😂😂
There was lots of coughing going on. Whittock did much more than those highlighted for a start
I thought same
Greed is a bitch
I wish they would that would have been super funny.
It's amazing that 3 peeps in a immediate family got on the same show
Fraud... it's in the title.
And then both of them lost and 1 ends up winning 🤔
Is it though?
@@2Guys1ControllerShowyes?
@@caramelprincess521 And the ones that lost were clearly smarter than the one who won.
You can tell he is cheating, he doesn't even give any information as to why he is choosing that answer. Nobody is that lucky lol
the man didn’t give ‘information’ ie reasoning for his answers throughout
Therefore it wasn’t a notable change in behavior
True. Taking the first 5 questions off, which usually are easy, you'd need to guess right answer 10 times in a row, that's (1/4)^10 power or 1/1048576 chance he'd got THAT lucky :)
@@RK-su4hssomebody who knows something will tend to show that off by either saying the KNOW that is the wrong answer and usually also why. This guy was pretty much guessing all the way, and likely never in his life even came second to last in a pub trivia, always last.
@@bjornlangoren3002 assumption based on what reasoning? curious
@@RK-su4hs Human behavior. Also people completely floundering will try to exact clues from the host, in the form of thinking loud and observe the hosts's reaction. This guy wasn't looking at the host. He was listening intently. Also he was not very smart, as the producers opined, not expecting him to get more than a couple of questions before failing. He knew nothing compared to his wife, who was rolling her eyes when he was lost on some easy questions. And he overdid it.. when he finally got a cough to confirm an answer he repeated it so many times, that his poor accomplice nearly choked from all tbe coughing. Stupid people might not recognize stupid when they see it. They think stupid is normal, and smart is just lucky. Stupid people also think you can successfully guess your way with 1/1000 in odds. 1/1000 is not a coin toss.
I've never heard of this before, but so glad this showed up in my UA-cam feed. I think this happened after watching a video from the UK. I'm from the US and typically isn't see US videos. Thank for posting this.
I love how the host keeps mocking him with the "craig david" answer
"A1 is the only band I've heard of here, I don't know who Craig David is. Never heard of him...I'm going Craig David. Never been more certain of anything in my life. Craig David, final answer".
Only would have worked if he said he knew all of A1's songs and this isn't one of them so it must be Craig David.
So here is my thinking, I get he was cheating, but I can imagine myself picking someone I never heard of if I had fair confidence that the ones I did know DID NOT put that album out.
@@fmm3487I would do the same
I yelled out "Craig David" before the answers were shown on the screen...lol
The host somehow seems he knows that this man is cheating, methinks, because he continues to ask "How did you figure this one out?"
From his logic, it seems to be "I know who this other band is, that's not an album they've released, so therefore the one I've not heard of is probably the answer." That's actually a perfectly reasonable way to make an educated guess. He was just terrible at acting the part.
I love how when the producers said that they weren't getting the money and there was going to be a case, they were still extremely nice to each other. Lol
Timestamp?
@@POOPGOD999 1:11:37
I know 😂😂😂..
British people :D
The more white a society is the kinder it is.
"Oh God, don't!", "Catch me when I fall on the floor." lol
I would've loved for the couples behind Diana to be interviewed. They knew what was going on most of the time and were so entertained by Diana's reactions
they were entertained by been on tv
I'll always be utterly fascinated with this story. Thanks for uploading it, especially in good quality!
When was it first broadcast?
@@visionist7 2003
@@visionist7 it took place in 2001 in the same week as 9/11 but as S B says, wasnt broadcast until after the trial in 2003 (for legal reasons)
His biggest crime was that shirt.
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Fr 😂😂😂😂
An even bigger crime is wearing the same shirt for two nights in a row.
@@wakt21exactly. I thought maybe they shot it in one day and cut in two segments, but then the hosts suit was different lol.. why tf would someone wear the exact same shirt twice? Hideous or not?
@@thugger-vandrossMaybe because it just doesn't matter?
Fun fact: The song starting 1:13:22 is from the same group who made 'I don't want to set the world on fire' (used in the fallout series of games).
It's funny watching the people behind his wife talking and laughing with each other like they know something is going on as well.
😂 thought the same thing
His wife's coughing at the Craig David question is faker than a kid faking being sick to get out of going to school lol like did anyone really think she was actually coughing?! Her dramatic chest clutch when she coughs is hilarious
they know there on tv, thats why
I think it's talked about in another video about this, but about halfway through this run, they show a clip of the couple behind her and they are mouthing something like "she's cheating." They knew, but I don't think they could do anything about it.
what struck me the most was the fact that he came back the next evening with the same shirt
They might have been filmed the same day, they're not live
Omg
In thedocumetary thry say it was the next day. @@chessbrawler
@@chessbrawlershe was wearing different clothes though but tecwen was so maybe
Maybe it was his lucky shirt?
The bigger crime here is, that he has never heared of Coldplay. That's 10 to 25 right there.
I'm from Chicago,IL and I love Coldplay!🤷
Coldplay listeners are all vaccinated love to wear masks and watch BBC news.
Eww I wish I never heard of them
@@VanessaCurry711 ahahah
Even uns in Africa know Coldplay pre UA-cam
Megatron as an answer for the million pound question is wild to me lol
Yeah, it's such a weird million pound question.
Asking for that and the answers are:
Googol
A unit of measurement you should know with basic chemistry
A unit of measurement you should know with basic computer stuff like bits and bytes
A fucking transformer from a superhit 80s show.
Like, the Craig David question at least had 4 singers/bands and the builder question had 4 cities.
The million dollar question straight up only had one answer that can be a number.
It would've been like if the Craig David question asked "who had the 2000 album whatever"
and the answers were Craig David, a molerat, the planet Jupiter and Franz Ferdinand the second.
@@youtube-kit9450it might be C, the planet jupiter
Today this question sounds absurdly easy, but even back then you'd expect everyone getting that far to immediately exclude byte and mol.
And what number ends on "tron"? Regardless of whether you know the character, that doesn't sound like a number word at all.
@youtube-kit9450 I thought that maybe Hasbro toys, chemistry and computet science were extremely obscure back then.
That million dollar question would be an entry level question now and days.
"nowadays"
*pounds
Not with that kind of spelling
@@matthiaskalt3209 LMAO
@@matthiaskalt3209
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A man so unknowledgeable that he didn’t know that the famous Jaqueline Kennedy became Jackie O (for Onassis) and died with that name (and the funeral was aired live worldwide), could never have gotten to $1mil on his own.
I know right!!! I thought the answer is in the answer!
Absolutely!!!!
Mf couldn't figure out it's googol when nano- mega- giga- are no where fucking close to 100 of 0's
EXACTLYYYYYYYY I’m American tho, I didn’t know people from other countries would know this
@Quincysgirl you didn't think the Greeks knew? Haha
Fascinating stuff! I was THRILLED when Ribert Brydges won. He was our neighbour at the time and you honestly could not meet a lovelier man. Very kind and genuine.
Apperantly not
That must have been exciting!
Do you know if Robert Brydges' run is on UA-cam?
@@neverbeaten Why apparently not?
What's really funny is when someone starts winning, the house gets suspicious. Just like in gambling casinos. When someone hits, the casino claims an error occurred
Facts 👍
What's also funny is that Robert Brydges was backstage at the recording of this
they know that statistically he should've bailed out long time ago. using up all your lifelines at the beginning indicates yoy wont know enough to make it to the end
@@Viteaification Tecwen Whittock went home with £1k so is it statistically likely he knew any of the questions he is alleged to have helped with?
Sure if you ignore all the evidence then you could come to that conclusion
The fact the wife said to Chris "only 32.000" highlights how greedy they are.
Funny how he had a comfortably paying job in the British Army before he pulled this bullshit and then got booted out the Army, Major's got quite a bit of money according to my brother who was in the Army's Parachute regiment and was mates with a couple Majors, not this clown thankfully
It's not greed. Just cause someone wants to make alot of money doesn't make it greed. I guess whatever you tell yourself to make you feel like your salary actually leaves something for someone other then yourself. Like your kids
@@jacobhall8267 dude... when somebody says . JUST 32,000. Yes thats greed. You can say... 32,000 is a good deal of money but we were aiming for 6 figures. Today alot of people work paycheck to paycheck. And what you just said to that guy was fucking nasty. Why don't you set the right example for YOUR KIDS and apologize to him. That was incredibly disrespectful. Apologize to him RIGHT NOW
@@robogreek3157 it's not greed to shoot for the stars. It's ignorance to be jealous of someone wanting better.
@@jacobhall8267 so, it's OK to cheat on a game show with other contestants who want to play the game by the rules are around him? It's OK for his kids to be bullied to shit about the insane plan he pulled off on live TV?
his only mistake was going for 1mln, if he stops at 500k or 250k no one will investigated his case.
Greed ruins all
They were already suspicious by 16,000
The program even stated that had he stopped at £125,000 at the highest, then this whole thing would have never happened.
Only mistake? Lol
Rule number one in crime is to never get greedy. When they started making coughing patterns, they got caught.
The fact that they're still denying in 2023 is remarkable
It's like Rosie Ruiz never admitting she cheated in the Boston Marathon, they just won't cop to it. Same with Pete Rose denying he bet on baseball, until he could profit off admitting he did it.
Did they lose the money?
Never admit to a lie!!
he won 4000 pounds alone 😂😂😂😂😂😂
It's that american mindset. Never admit a failure. Aside from toxifying everyone in the US towards possible wrong or failure... also made a culture where there totes will be a die-hard community saying he didn't cheat which they can exploit.
can't believe the credits music wasn't craig david
What's really a pity is that he did the whole thing in autopilot mode. He had good intuition on multiple questions, but he waited every time for multiple hints, as if three coughs were absolutely necessary to choose his answer. For sure at that moment he was really willing not to loose the money he had just earned, but by his attitude he was really not thinking by himself while having this cheating system as a hint, but clearly relying entirely on it. Every answering phase looked exactly the same and this was naturally suspicious.
Could also be a coincidence he read out the correct answer first by guessing. He still looked for confirmation by reading the rest of the options. Example, he guessed hat on question 14 but still wanted a cough to confirm
Honestly, he seems really thick. Like, clearly the dumbest of the three Ingrams, yet the one to try and take home the million. The way he got stuck on the Berlin answer, or kept saying "I've never heard of X", only to be forced to pick that answer made me laugh so hard.
Wait, I’m confused. I may be being thicker than a whale omelette but if the other guy was so smart why didn’t he take the seat instead?
@@Smashingblouse Have you watched it in full? Wife Diana and her brother Adrian had both already had their time on the show. We don't know if they attempted to cheat on the first day, but the coughing plan was very quickly put together overnight.
Tecwen Whittock might have been more clever, but he hadn't yet made it to the hot seat, and he wasn't related to the Ingrams - he was roped in. He wasn't the only help they had - Whittock got two answers by conferring with another contestant, and Diana helped on another question.
@@SonOfFurzehatt yeah sorry man, I hadn’t watched it till the end
Thank you so much for uploading this. I love this documentary and I was very sad when the other one was taken down.
Which one was that?
@@sharoncox4776 Someone who was uploading random things they had taped uploaded the documentary as part of that, I think the BBC got wind of it and copystruck it.
If she knew all the answers , why didn't she go on instead of him ?
@@stevecarey4047 this proves nothing the document all it proves it he is innocent and got punish for something they didn’t do.
@@SporeDemigod That probably would have been on Dailymotion where the rules are less strict
I haven’t watched it yet and I had completely forgotten about this. But is anybody else blown away that it was 24 years ago?!
Yes. I feel old.
23*
I was thinking that as well.
The crazy thing is, it’s just after the £32K question and I got them all right merely by guessing. Well, actually I thought the cheese was from the Netherlands so I wouldn’t have made it to the £32K one
@@LissyVee I love playing along with these game shows. I really like prices right and wheel of Fortune. I do pretty well playing at home, but I have a feeling that if I were on TV or even in front of an audience, I would hyperventilate, have an anxiety attack and pass out cold lol I can talk a lot and be very friendly with people I don’t know but being the center of attention like back in the days of high school and doing book reports and stuff in front of my class was enough to really cause me to get lightheaded and almost passed out. Even if I knew what I was talking about. And if I were on one of those game shows I know, without a doubt it would not end well for me. 😂 and I would be so nervous that I would not be able to answer the questions properly or in time. Even if I knew the answer. But man, it would be fun!!!! I was playing the Clock game with my nine and 11-year-old grandsons the other day. They were trying to guess the price of something that I had so I told them about that game and we started doing it. It was hilarious lol it took them a minute to really understand how to go about doing it but once they caught on, they were having a good time. When that game show Minute to Win It was on my whole family played it at the Fourth of July. It’s been years ago like when that show was really popular. And this was like my extended family like aunts and uncles and cousins and stuff.
If you look at the dates on this it becomes pretty clear why it wasn't bigger in the news
The fact that he has 3 kids and still takes this risk is even more shameful
+@Cbirduk1990,
He'd be forgivable, if he had admitted the truth, but he still lies to this day.
If he had said "me and my wife were 50k in debt, as a Major I thought I'd be retired by now, I wasn't stealing from poor people, I knew what I was doing was wrong, and rightly so I was caught, and I would encourage others to not look for a quick fix like I did".
At least that way, I'd forgive him, I'd never want to share a Pint with him, but at least I'd say "he's Human, anyone of us could have been in his situation".
Who cares. The fact that this is even a story in the UK is humorous.
Shh@@Izzyizzyizzy123
@@Izzyizzyizzy123Straight up. Honestly who cares. Terrible parents on every block and in every pub.
@Izzyizzyizzy123 r u kidding? Someone caught cheating on a hugely popular worldwide quiz show wins a milliion and you think that's not even a story? 😂
I am so glad someone reuploaded this! :)
As a teacher, making multiple-choice questions, we always had an utterly ridiculously wrong answer, a correct answer and an answer that at first glance could be right until you thought twice and one designed to trip you up if you were rushing. It took skill to write the answers in that way (especially when it was a grammar test and not a general knowledge test) but I can see that pattern in some of the proposed answers.
That was the best way to make people like myself second guess myself and end up giving the wrong answer
They definitely do that at the start.
@@MATLfantasy I was a teacher too, but with a learning disability. That practice beat me every time.
“Coldplay, I’ve never heard of.” 😂 Seriously?
It made sense in context. This episode would have aired in 2001, Coldplay's major label debut was a year earlier. They didn't attain the major radio success until later in the decade, around 2006-08. Most of their earlier albums did well enough but most of the singles didn't have a ton of lasting airplay. In 2000 they were really just another rock band.
Got to remember when viewing all these questions this was 2001. Even the "googol" question makes sense in context.
Check the date of this event
His problem was that on the 125k and 250k questions he had the right answer in the first place and just needed confirmation of his instinct. He then thought he had the right answer on the 500k question and that's where it really starts to unravel and becomes really obvious with performing u-turns. He didn't help himself either by continually saying things like "I really don't know" and "I'm sure it's not" during the questions. If he'd just remained calm and didn't talk so much and just slowly went round the answers without talking too much he could have convincingly built up his certainty over the correct answer when it was given to him.
Also on the 125k question he dismisses Van Eyk as he'd never heard of him (although you don't see that bit in this documentary) but on other questions he goes for answers BECAUSE he's never heard of them!
Q1q
Agreed. He talked way too much.
"never watched the movie, don't know any of the actors, hmm, I'll say xxxx"
Correct!
Exactly. So stupid it’s unbelievable. Why say: I have never heard of, I really don’t know, I’m really not sure etc, and then chose that answer! He should have kept quiet, said if anything like: I know this one or I have two alternatives etc. So greedy and came off as a brainless stupid weirdo
Yeah if he walked after the 250K he probably would’ve gotten away with it
Yeah, he just needed to f'ing stop saying he doesn't know anything.
If he had got to 64k or even 125k then he'd have got away with it. Sadly greed was his undoing and the further he went the less believable it was
IKR?
They still would’ve been pretty damn rich
Greed truly is the undoing of many
Granted many might’ve been still suspicious, but doubt they would’ve had sufficient enough evidence
He could’ve even gone to 250k. He kind of already knew the Anthony Eden was a hat, the coughs were mostly unnecessary. But the last two were way too obvious. That’s what did him in.
Yes exactly that’s what I was thinking
Greedy
Lol what sadly, he did wrong and was bound to get caught
I became so excited with the guilty coughs, that I myself am doing the coughing when Major mentions an answer
😂
😂😂😂
A really interesting interview, thank you ❤
Part of the problem is, he usually said “I’ve got no idea” or “I’m not certain” indicating he was just taking a wild guess.
I’m no statistician but GUESSES aren’t correct 100% of the time, as Charles’ were.
I know he should had acted like he new the answer a little more.
They were too obvious. They shoulda had a cough for A. A sneeze for B. A hiccup for C. And a massive fart for D.
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A 😷
B 🙄
C 😳
D 🤢
Oh my god, I'm dying 😂😂😂😂😂😂
That would be stupid plan. At £32,000 question everyone in the room would have died for gas poisoning.
Update:
After this scandal came out, he had to resign from the military. Currently, he is a "Director of Operations" for his wifes candle business and has declared bankruptcy 4 times.
Wow! 😲
😮 poor thing at least he has a job
Pretty sure he wrote a book too
This sounds like what would have happened to Michael Scott if he hadn't met Holly Flax
@@debbiejones4935too funny!!
Charles just wasn’t suitable for that kind of scam. He was a mess, acting completely suspicious. The way he would outrule possible answers only to then choose them was really hard to watch. I’m sure this could have worked with a mastermind on the chair who would make up plausible explanations as to why he chose his respective answer.
That last question was so easy, can't believe it's a million dollar question.
Probably they didn't want to use their best questions since they were cheating
1) google was just starting a company when this aired, it wasnt a fun fact like it is today.
2) the questions touch many areas of knowledge (history the question before, biology earlier) and 99% of contestants dont have knowledge of all these areas..
3) tecwen wittock got lucky id say knowing all these questions. And he didnt know the hat question, normally a contestant would be out at that point!
The point being by the time youve gone through 15 questions most people are out.
@@ArtaxForeverhe also didn’t know the Craig David
@@paolo9038 the questions are selected randomly during the show
Don't forget the year this came out: 2001. The internet itself was just starting to became a mainstay for a majority of households and Google itself started as a company only a couple of years prior. Today, it's a common fun fact that Google is a play on a term meaning a number of a 1 followed by a hundred zeros, and in today's Millionaire game may only a $1000 question. But at the time? Only hard core tech nerds or serious mathematicians would know.
Love this doc! thanks for uploading! I have been missing this on youtube.
“The first time he mentions the word googol. cough cough GOTCHA!” 😂 - 57:21
That Larry bloke seems like a bit of a prick tbh 😂
@@oliprj8676 IKR
1:12:02 "Well I completely refute that obviously"....refute what you haven't been told anything yet 🤣🤣🤣
It always comes down to greed. Take the lesser amount and run.
Diana facial expressions are scarier then the scam itself holy fck
Yea I agree
@@roycepavich2441she's like a quizzy Lady Macbeth 😂
Probably peeved the person sat behind her asked her to take her pointy black hat off and put her broomstick away
It's the face of a narcissist.
She looks like a malignant version of The Wicked Witch of the West from the Wizard of Oz
He is not phone a friend. it's a cough, a friend. 😂😂
Where is Netflix when we need a movie? 😂
The Sussexes must have booked them.
@@1dayUllC 😂😂😂
He was in debt for 50.000 , ?? But his wife just won 32 .000 . Gees spent money they did not have. 😮😮😮😮