Yeah but the main mistake was winning so much. Nobody wouodve batted an eye if he went with 32k 64k or maybe even 125. He couldve agreed beforehand get the 32k by coughing then take his chances with a free guess and no coughing.
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everyone was coughing and clapping at the time so the investigators told the producers to drown all the audio down but amplify the cougher, the fraudster and the hosts microphone. This is why we hear the coughs so well and think it's so obvious.
The main mistake was he got too far for greed , if you win a million dollars you are in news channels , papers , magazines everywhere and someone IS going to figure it out , the smart thing would be to just cheat till nobody doubts and leave.
Exactly From what it seems, he might’ve gotten away with it had he quit at 125 or even 250. The obvious U-turns and him not even aware of the answers yet somehow miraculously knowing which one is right. Diana’s reaction afterwards is jarring as well. She didn’t look like someone reacting normally to seeing her husband win a million pounds .
I think the original plan was to just play to 125 or 250 thousand. But he got carried away at the 500 thousand pound question when he assumed that the answer was Berlin based on the person's name. Using an easy cheat like this becomes highly addicting overtime, and it becomes very easy to go just a little further here and there. But yeah, he was supposed to walk away at the 500 thousand pound question.
@@Mary_Lee2395 This was in 2001. 3G wasn't available till late that year, and even then barely anybody had it. She most definitely isn't using a mobile phone.
Tim Wright I remember seeing a few articles and videos about it and they said she was using a phone or electronic device to get the answers. How else would she get the answers quickly?? It yeah either way they’re so ghetto and fake
@@laylahahmad6468Because seeing some people not wearing masks, not keeping their distance and going out frequently, it shows that they just don't give a shit about it now.
@@CraftySouthpaw Greed was his undoing They would’ve still had a decent payday at 250K or even 125K But by getting greedy, they ultimately won nothing.
@@themaster4775 according to Chris Tarrant in the dressing room afterwards with the door closed they both had a blazing row. All you could hear was the wife laying into him.
Irrelevant unless the other 173 coughs could reasonably be linked to either an answer being discussed or given/changed. Ingram was a spud who miraculously changed his answers to people and things he'd literally never heard of. Coughing at strategic times. The fact so many people in his/his family's circle were contestants. Coincidence? Occam's Razor says no. He and his wife are cheats and liars--feel free to Google them you'll see what sleazy people they are.
@@Marymead2, exactly right, which is why the other 173 coughs were irrelevant--when taken with all the other things happening (i.e., the context), those coughs were meaningless. The 19 submitted as evidenced were directly linked to specific questions and actions taken by Charles Ingram. Sometimes a cough is just a cough; sometimes, it's not.
@@stevewood238, debate with you is going to be useless and I don't have the time, inclination or patience to educate a fucktard like you--continue to believe whatever you want. In the meantime, why don't you go outside and play hide-and-go-fuck-yourself?
Some people are saying that the coughing was exaggerated in this recording and the coughs were cherry picked in order to make it obvious. The coughs were not the only reason that the jury found them guilty of cheating: 1. The first few rounds he struggled with a lot of the questions and used 2 lifelines way too early. The production didn't expect him to make it much farther. When he came back, these struggles all but disappeared. 2. For each question he read all of the answers out loud in slow procession ... multiple times. I've never seen another contestant do this. 3. He was given questions that he clearly did not know the answers to, changed his answers out of shit nowhere, and they always ended up being correct. 4. His demeanor in those few split seconds of anticipation where you find out if an answer is correct or not does not seem normal. He seems very calm, and most contestants look incredibly anxious and scared in those moments. It's because he knew the answers were correct before it was officially confirmed. 5. His wife can be seen looking at Techwin Whittock multiple times during the recording, enough times that it was not a coincidence. 6. His wife's behavior after they won the money was not behavior to be expected from someone who's husband just won a million pounds. If anything, she looks like she is nervous and scared. 6. He and his wife got into a huge argument backstage after the taping, which is totally not normal for anyone who just won that much money. A lot of people suspect that it was because he had played on much farther than he agreed to go, and now it was totally obvious that they cheated.
Also the recorded phone call of Charles being told by a producer that he's not getting the cheque because the police are investigating irregularities, no details given, and he quickly and calmly wraps up the conversation without asking any questions at all. Besides, the same one person was noticed by two eye witnesses to be coughing only at those times, and turning his face towards the hotseat with each cough.
Additionally, it was only towards the end of that phone call with the producers that he declared his innocence. Normally if someone is wrongly accused of something large like that, they get incredibly defensive from the out right. “I did not do that!” “You have the wrong person!” His response: “obviously I complete disagree with those statements, they are false” in a very calm demeanor.
No question, she was completely rattled and knew they were screwed, their was no joy whatsoever in her demeanor, if anything it was polar opposite as she knew this could put her in jail, debt or at least a lifetime of being a horrible cheater and fraud.
All fine until your last point. It wasn't "totally obvious" that they cheated. Extensive analysis of the footage was conducted to prove that they cheated. This was the only real evidence you've listed. Everything else was circumstantial and didn't actually prove anything.
"I think it might be a nanomole or a gigabit, so by process of elimination I think it's Googol because I don't know what it is, unlike the others which I also don't know and think might be it". Great logic that Charles.
The last question was ridiculous anyway....a million dolllars....anyone who has the basic of computer knowledge or high school knows what a nano mega giga is....so the answer was tooooooo easy!!!
His biggest mistake - not knowing when to keep his mouth shut about what he does and doesn't know. If he'd practiced that before hand he'd have been fine
@@dar1020 Back in 2003, Google wasn't even a thing, Facebook didn't even exist, the internet as we know it today was mostly in it's infancy. No smart phones and the most powerful console on the planet was the N64, computers had megabytes of memory. Today we all know what Google is and what it means.
You can really see in his wifes eyes that they cheated. Looking at her husband with pure antagonism after he won that amount of money... I bet they agreed to stop at a lower amount.
Especially when he said I don't kno what a googol is..but also felt so sure it was the answer..the wife rolled her eyes and head .probably thinking what an idiot thing to say
One of them accidentally coughed (so to speak) at one of the wrong answers, at one point during this round; the man coughed, briefly, and then immediately uttered "No".
@@gregholman2431 No, it wasnt like that. Ingram kind of convinced himself in the Baron Hausmann question, that Berlin was the right answer, instead of checking every single answer with Whitock (or whatever his name was). So Whitock shouted no and also blew his nose to alarm Ingram that Ingram was wrong. Don't spread misinformation, please.
@@archduchyofaustria2021 No comment. Other than watch the clip again, perhaps; it seems that the poster of this wholesome clip and myself are in total sync and total agreement, here. Yourself? I do not know, so much so. Ingram, here, basically just uttered the names of the possible answers, like usual throughout his wholesome round of "Millionaire", waiting for the "proper" cue (of coughing), time and time again. He was not kind of convinced about any of the possible answers (well, at least eventually; at least later on, throughout his wholesome round of his stint on "Millionaire").
@@gregholman2431 that particular question he convinced himself it was Berlin and kept saying it was Berlin it wasn’t until the bloke coughed with the no (as in it’s not Berlin) that said Paris which a cough without a no occurred.
Hahahaha that £1m question alone settles it in my view. "I think it's a nanomole" then goes on to change his answer. Wtf? Not knowing that nano refers to a very small quantity of something, and then miraculously choosing the right answer...taken with everything else, the defence really didn't have a leg to stand on.
A nanomole would be a bilionth of a mole though. And a mole is 10^23, so a nanomole is 10^14, which is a lot less than 10^100, but still I wouldn't call it tiny in isolation.
Yea and risking £468,000 on the most random guess…combined with the clearly audible “NO” on the previous question. Definitely proof beyond reasonable doubt in my mind. I can’t believe some people somehow think he was innocent or that it’s not clear if he was guilty or not. To me all the evidence makes it abundantly clear.
Yeah had he walked away at even 500k it would be hard to dispute that he was cheating because he could say it was legit and felt any of his answers was hard to choose to with 500k on the line. He’s an idiot but gladly he got caught
125-250k is probably the max he could have gotten away with. At 500k there's still too much evidence, but yeah going all the way to the million was a ridiculous decision.
@@PortlandMan He does look and sound like a bit of a slimeball. I know that we shouldn’t judge by appearance and sound but, I’ve yet to meet somebody that looks and sounds like a slimeball that actually isn’t one. Apparently even after the guilty verdict he continued to deny this and got convicted of insurance fraud not long after. He must think people are really stupid. Yet in reality he is the stupid one trying to cheat his way to a million pounds sporting such a creepy grin
Get to 32k with his cheating tactic and then use whatever lifelines left and take the free shot at 64k. And the guy helping him got greedy too. Just stop coughing after 32k and leave him on his own. Or finally to make it look totally innocous cheat your way to 64k... Then the cougher coughs at the Wrong answer and you lose your way back to 32k. Then your defense is infallible.
Is he though? Would you have come up with this idea yourself in the first place? Also, would you act differently knowing you’re cheating and that millions of people are watching you?
you can tell from their behavior when he answered the million dollar question that they cheated. they weren't even happy. they looked guilty. the guilt of being in front of people on TV trumped the winning a million. their faces showed it all.
It wasn’t guilt so much as fear. She knew that he got too greedy by going all the way and that they were most certainly going to get caught. That’s probably why they were heard yelling and arguing with each other after the show
She was pissed even more when they went back to their dressing room after the show. The staff could hear them arguing outside the room when they should’ve been so happy.
Yeah its all over her face, she looks guilty and angry. They probably all agreed to stop at half a million, maybe lower but he got greedy. You can tell she wasnt happy about it.
Surely the Craig David question should have set alarm bells off the fact that he says that he has never heard of Craig David but then he locks in Craig David
These folks were missing one thing. Self awareness. The wife is ON CAM looking wild rolling he eyes and coughing, Tecwen actually said NO sitting directly next to other potential players and the contestant guessed answers he admittedly had no idea of...
Coughs aside, it seems so obvious the way he’s answering the questions, contestants usually think out loud and explain their reasoning whilst going through options, whereas C. I. just saying ”i don’t think it’s this, i think it’s this”, ocassionally changing his mind with no explaination why.
watching this guy plays and I had to rewatch all other performances of the genuine winners. It is actually a pleasure to watch them play instead of this guy, especially Ingram Wilcox, where he gave all his reasons, his deduction for each answer.
"Erm I dont think it's this. But it might be this. Hehehe. I've never heard of this so- *cough cough* Yeah I'll go with this anyway" What kind of erudition are we talking about if he says 3 lines all over the show?
Yep, the last question really gave it away. I've never heard of that or that, not sure what a googol is, *cough*, well in a process of elimination it must be a googol...
According to “QUIZ” the 2020 re-enactment of this incident, it shows that they were in debt and the whole reason for going on the show in the first place was to win the jackpot to pay it off. That would explain why Dianna, her brother and Charles all went on the show and they were so desperate they eventually resorted to cheating their way through to the end.
I think MANY people are living paycheck to paycheck, and would like to win $one million. It’s not just because they were in debt, as their driving desire to be on the show. (& cheat to win) Many people have a credit card debt. So the fact that they’re in debt, is the main culprit for them cheating. I think $1 million would change 95% of the people life’s. (regardless if you’re in debt already or not) Someone who’s not in debt, i.e. a low income earner would also have a desire to cheat as well.
For those of you thinking the last question was easy, keep in mind back then there weren't about 1000 videos on UA-cam of people talking about the end of the universe and what a googol means like there are now. lol
yeah but many people knew what a nanomole, a gigabit and who Megatron is. Or at least what giga- and nano- stand for in science. It's very basic knowledge for a million dollar question.
@@giannis5250 In 2001, those were all things most people didn't know. Among average people on the street - non-quizz-wizzes - only people who took at least A Levels in Biology or Chemistry would know what a nanomole is, even now, and only nerds and IT workers would have known what a gigabit was or have heard of Megatron. If you listen to news stories from the late nineties and early 2000s, university-educated middle-aged journalists sounded more clueless about technology than most working class 100 year olds would today. They phrased things like an old person would, e.g. "computer websites" because people didn't know what the Internet or world wide web were, and scoffed at the idea that mobile phones with colour screens or mobile games more advanced than Snake would ever be more than a passing fad.
Actually, I first heard of a googol when I was small, which was no more than a few years after this episode aired. That's why it was my guess from the start. I've never heard of the B and C choices before this
10:56 ‘I have no idea what your strategy was.’ ‘Just go for it. Just go for it. Be hard.’ The look of guilt and bullshit in his eyes, waiting to get off set, and then cut to his wife, the guilt and sense of despair in her eyes as if she knows there’s every chance they will be found out. She looks so awkward walking off, not even smiling, her entire body language is not what you’d expect from someone who has just won a million pounds. And on live television. Bizarre.
Remove ALL the coughing from this and they both still look as guilty as sin. He talked and moved about far too much, she acted her way through the whole thing. It's blatantly obvious!
@@joeshort2185 I think they probably would have got away with it around the 32,000 - 64,000 mark. It was his incoherent flipflopping when the serious money was involved that coincided with that cough that gave it away.
@@BLUE...RED....BLACK000 Yeah that just sealed the deal that he was guilty. Not only did it make not a lick of sense, but you wouldn’t gamble like that with all the money on the line.
His whole demenor when talking out loud the potential answers but giving no logic to his answer then changing his mind, was the huge suspicion for the production crew, even before they picked up on the coughing.
TBH it was a good plan that could have worked if he used lifelines, stop saying IDK all the time, and not being greedy. Maybe then, he would have gotten away with it :L
After the wife walked to the stage to celebrate she suddenly lost her cough, I think confetti cures the common cough. Just don't let the pharmaceutical companies find out this information because bags of confetti would dramatically increase by 100,000%
I couldn't tell you the No 1 album of 2019, or 2020, or really any year. It's not in my sphere of news, so there is really no reason for me to know that information.
Openly admitting to never having heard of 3 of the answers, being sure it was A1 and then flopping onto Craig David is massively suspicious. He should have had enough awareness there to think the jig was up. Walking off with 32,000 would have been enough.
I think it's a nanomole, but it could be a gigabit, I don't think it's a megatron and I have say I don't think I've heard of a googol *cough cough* I think it's a googol. I play googol. 😏
It’s so painfully obvious especially in a game show choice answer situation. What were the people around her doing?? Hahaha did they really not notice it for the whole show
After humiliating himself with the A1 segment, he should've gone up to $32k, free guess, and then stopped at either result. He made himself look foolish even his wife is looking at him like an idiot. He's like a bank robber wearing bright orange clothing and wielding a kitchen knife as his weapon
there were even special episodes where 2 people could play the game together and still didnt even get very far, I mean his peepz at least were quite clever knowing all the answers ? but how dumb can you be saying "I never heard of that/him" if you dont know yet if exactly this could be the right answer... just act like youve heard of all of the things already..
Well his wife and friend are really stupid because they ever caught when he actually was Wright They should have only caught when he chooses the wrong answer
Imagine if someone noticed that and started coughing at the wrong answers 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Some noticed but should've done something
Just awesome, but he could recognize his mates voice
ALL e-Sports That mate he had never met before in his life?
Lol 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@user-fo2ik1vt4b they can’t do much :/ luckily the people backstage already knew what was up!
It was too excessive. It could’ve been done with a lot less coughing.
He was too dumb, he needed all of those coughs lol
Yeah but the main mistake was winning so much. Nobody wouodve batted an eye if he went with 32k 64k or maybe even 125.
He couldve agreed beforehand get the 32k by coughing then take his chances with a free guess and no coughing.
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Imagine for the million dollar question the producers caught on and threw in a 'how many coughs does it take to win a million dollars?'
That would be hilarious
God I wish!
🤣🤣🤣
When she turned toward Tech he was lucky not to get her nose in his eye.
Well, why didn't they? It wouldn't have hurt the ratings. Could use a little bit of comedy on the show...
everyone was coughing and clapping at the time so the investigators told the producers to drown all the audio down but amplify the cougher, the fraudster and the hosts microphone. This is why we hear the coughs so well and think it's so obvious.
If everyone was coughing how could Ingram tell when it was his accomplice coughing and not some random ?
@@stevewood238 probably just the direction the coughs were coming from. which was behind him
@@disneyscott98there were about 50 people behind him lol it could of been anyone
@@stevewood238 That was what the defence was saying, who says, he is actually guilty?
Great insights! Well, I’d love to hear the vid without those things being amplified. Maybe that’ll show us why it wasn’t so obvious to the host.
The main mistake was he got too far for greed , if you win a million dollars you are in news channels , papers , magazines everywhere and someone IS going to figure it out , the smart thing would be to just cheat till nobody doubts and leave.
Exactly
From what it seems, he might’ve gotten away with it had he quit at 125 or even 250.
The obvious U-turns and him not even aware of the answers yet somehow miraculously knowing which one is right.
Diana’s reaction afterwards is jarring as well. She didn’t look like someone reacting normally to seeing her husband win a million pounds .
Couldn't agree more
Yup. He wanted the fortune AND the fame.
Should’ve stuck with 125k or 250k. That was a generous amount back then.
Naah. His coughing friend wanted his share too
I think the original plan was to just play to 125 or 250 thousand. But he got carried away at the 500 thousand pound question when he assumed that the answer was Berlin based on the person's name. Using an easy cheat like this becomes highly addicting overtime, and it becomes very easy to go just a little further here and there. But yeah, he was supposed to walk away at the 500 thousand pound question.
If his wife knows all the answers,she could have played this instead of him.
She was on the show herself previously as well as her brother. Bizarre that all three would wind up on the show.
@@TimWrightDJ Thanks. I'll have to check that out.
She was cheating with her phone
@@Mary_Lee2395 This was in 2001. 3G wasn't available till late that year, and even then barely anybody had it. She most definitely isn't using a mobile phone.
Tim Wright I remember seeing a few articles and videos about it and they said she was using a phone or electronic device to get the answers. How else would she get the answers quickly?? It yeah either way they’re so ghetto and fake
The coughing was way too obvious
Mr. Rayan STFU
@TheBrabon1 _Yeah even the Host said he didn't hear any coughing._
@TheBrabon1 _Yep, cause even the "cough....NO!!".......is me anyday if I cough and thought I shart myself. 0.o_
Ta
Not that obvious in 2003
Honestly, the worst part about this entire scandal is the fact that he didn’t know Coldplay
This was in 2000. They weren’t well known yet then.
True but Corrie had been on tv since 1960
no body fcking care about coldplay in 2000. they are new back then
I envy him.
This cheat is never gonna happen these days, one cough and the corona alarm is on
😂😂😂Yeah everyone would freak out for 1 cough nowadays 🤣
😂😂
ahahaha 🤣
4 years later I think we’re over the Covid fear
@@laylahahmad6468Because seeing some people not wearing masks, not keeping their distance and going out frequently, it shows that they just don't give a shit about it now.
When he says he didn't know what a Googol is, his wife had that look of "you are blowing our cover here, man."
One theory is that they probably had agreed to stop at a lower amount, in order to avoid scrutiny, but he kept going all the way to the end.
@@CraftySouthpaw Greed was his undoing
They would’ve still had a decent payday at 250K or even 125K
But by getting greedy, they ultimately won nothing.
They had a massive row in the dressing room after
the way she rolls her eyes and fake coughs hahahahahahahahahahahahaha
Her facial expressions alone, let you know the plan isnt going the way she wanted it to. Funny to watch now
@@themaster4775 according to Chris Tarrant in the dressing room afterwards with the door closed they both had a blazing row. All you could hear was the wife laying into him.
@@foreverred105 ahhh yes, i did hear that. I remember it further addes to their suspicion as they weren't celebrating
There were 192 coughs. The prosecution selected 19 as evidence.
Irrelevant unless the other 173 coughs could reasonably be linked to either an answer being discussed or given/changed. Ingram was a spud who miraculously changed his answers to people and things he'd literally never heard of. Coughing at strategic times. The fact so many people in his/his family's circle were contestants. Coincidence? Occam's Razor says no. He and his wife are cheats and liars--feel free to Google them you'll see what sleazy people they are.
@@fredpearson5204I don't disagree with you, but when people just say someone coughed, the evidence is more complicated than that.
@@Marymead2, exactly right, which is why the other 173 coughs were irrelevant--when taken with all the other things happening (i.e., the context), those coughs were meaningless. The 19 submitted as evidenced were directly linked to specific questions and actions taken by Charles Ingram. Sometimes a cough is just a cough; sometimes, it's not.
@@fredpearson5204 if the coughs are after an answer how can they be irrelevant
@@stevewood238, debate with you is going to be useless and I don't have the time, inclination or patience to educate a fucktard like you--continue to believe whatever you want. In the meantime, why don't you go outside and play hide-and-go-fuck-yourself?
Cheating aside, that’s the first time I surely knew the million pounds question!
only because we're in 2020 and have been exposed to that word millions of times. Back in 2003, yahoo was the search enfine of choice
same lol
Same here! lol. i didn't think it was a million pound question.
If you were back in 2001-2003, you wouldn't know the answer. Google was not popular back in the day.
you don't need to know what googol is to figure out the answer, just eliminate the others by knowing some basic science and who Megatron is.
Some people are saying that the coughing was exaggerated in this recording and the coughs were cherry picked in order to make it obvious. The coughs were not the only reason that the jury found them guilty of cheating:
1. The first few rounds he struggled with a lot of the questions and used 2 lifelines way too early. The production didn't expect him to make it much farther. When he came back, these struggles all but disappeared.
2. For each question he read all of the answers out loud in slow procession ... multiple times. I've never seen another contestant do this.
3. He was given questions that he clearly did not know the answers to, changed his answers out of shit nowhere, and they always ended up being correct.
4. His demeanor in those few split seconds of anticipation where you find out if an answer is correct or not does not seem normal. He seems very calm, and most contestants look incredibly anxious and scared in those moments. It's because he knew the answers were correct before it was officially confirmed.
5. His wife can be seen looking at Techwin Whittock multiple times during the recording, enough times that it was not a coincidence.
6. His wife's behavior after they won the money was not behavior to be expected from someone who's husband just won a million pounds. If anything, she looks like she is nervous and scared.
6. He and his wife got into a huge argument backstage after the taping, which is totally not normal for anyone who just won that much money. A lot of people suspect that it was because he had played on much farther than he agreed to go, and now it was totally obvious that they cheated.
Also the recorded phone call of Charles being told by a producer that he's not getting the cheque because the police are investigating irregularities, no details given, and he quickly and calmly wraps up the conversation without asking any questions at all. Besides, the same one person was noticed by two eye witnesses to be coughing only at those times, and turning his face towards the hotseat with each cough.
2b His question answering style changes from the first segment on previous day to the next day
Additionally, it was only towards the end of that phone call with the producers that he declared his innocence.
Normally if someone is wrongly accused of something large like that, they get incredibly defensive from the out right. “I did not do that!” “You have the wrong person!” His response: “obviously I complete disagree with those statements, they are false” in a very calm demeanor.
No question, she was completely rattled and knew they were screwed, their was no joy whatsoever in her demeanor, if anything it was polar opposite as she knew this could put her in jail, debt or at least a lifetime of being a horrible cheater and fraud.
All fine until your last point. It wasn't "totally obvious" that they cheated. Extensive analysis of the footage was conducted to prove that they cheated. This was the only real evidence you've listed. Everything else was circumstantial and didn't actually prove anything.
"I think it might be a nanomole or a gigabit, so by process of elimination I think it's Googol because I don't know what it is, unlike the others which I also don't know and think might be it".
Great logic that Charles.
Literally the easiest question too LOL what a moron
The last question was ridiculous anyway....a million dolllars....anyone who has the basic of computer knowledge or high school knows what a nano mega giga is....so the answer was tooooooo easy!!!
His biggest mistake - not knowing when to keep his mouth shut about what he does and doesn't know. If he'd practiced that before hand he'd have been fine
@@dar1020 Back in 2003, Google wasn't even a thing, Facebook didn't even exist, the internet as we know it today was mostly in it's infancy. No smart phones and the most powerful console on the planet was the N64, computers had megabytes of memory.
Today we all know what Google is and what it means.
@@WaveForceful google means glasses you ignorant
1:43 I like how the guy in the back facepalms when he hears her cough
LMAO
He was so on to her
Lmao he smiles too
@@lessthanthreemetalShe has lung cancer 😂
You can really see in his wifes eyes that they cheated. Looking at her husband with pure antagonism after he won that amount of money... I bet they agreed to stop at a lower amount.
It makes sense.
It became quite obvious by his U-turns and bad acting.
And he didn’t know what a Googol was yet knew it was the answer ?
@@RB01.10 By process of elimination...because it was a Nanomole, and not a Megatron, Gigabit, or a Nanomole.
Especially when he said I don't kno what a googol is..but also felt so sure it was the answer..the wife rolled her eyes and head .probably thinking what an idiot thing to say
Then why didn't she just stop coughing... she technically could've stopped him.
@@davida6146 She only coughed on one question, the 32k one. On the rest of them the other accomplice did.
I’d die if one of them actually got a sore throat and coughed the wrong answer-
One of them accidentally coughed (so to speak) at one of the wrong answers, at one point during this round; the man coughed, briefly, and then immediately uttered "No".
@@gregholman2431 No, it wasnt like that. Ingram kind of convinced himself in the Baron Hausmann question, that Berlin was the right answer, instead of checking every single answer with Whitock (or whatever his name was). So Whitock shouted no and also blew his nose to alarm Ingram that Ingram was wrong. Don't spread misinformation, please.
@@archduchyofaustria2021 No comment. Other than watch the clip again, perhaps; it seems that the poster of this wholesome clip and myself are in total sync and total agreement, here. Yourself? I do not know, so much so. Ingram, here, basically just uttered the names of the possible answers, like usual throughout his wholesome round of "Millionaire", waiting for the "proper" cue (of coughing), time and time again. He was not kind of convinced about any of the possible answers (well, at least eventually; at least later on, throughout his wholesome round of his stint on "Millionaire").
@@archduchyofaustria2021 “don’t spread misinformation “ 😂 wow, you really take this stuff seriously don’t you?
@@gregholman2431 that particular question he convinced himself it was Berlin and kept saying it was Berlin it wasn’t until the bloke coughed with the no (as in it’s not Berlin) that said Paris which a cough without a no occurred.
Hahahaha that £1m question alone settles it in my view. "I think it's a nanomole" then goes on to change his answer. Wtf? Not knowing that nano refers to a very small quantity of something, and then miraculously choosing the right answer...taken with everything else, the defence really didn't have a leg to stand on.
I don’t know what a Googol is 🤦🏻♂️
It's clear that he's cycling through each answer one at a time, waiting to hear the cough.
A nanomole would be a bilionth of a mole though. And a mole is 10^23, so a nanomole is 10^14, which is a lot less than 10^100, but still I wouldn't call it tiny in isolation.
He was an idiot
Yea and risking £468,000 on the most random guess…combined with the clearly audible “NO” on the previous question. Definitely proof beyond reasonable doubt in my mind. I can’t believe some people somehow think he was innocent or that it’s not clear if he was guilty or not. To me all the evidence makes it abundantly clear.
9:55 the look of shock and dread on her face says, we’re not going to get away with this. She didn’t even look excited at all!
Yep she knew he done f***ed it by getting too greedy lol
And to THINK he would've gotten away with it if he had just stopped at £32K-£250K.
Yeah had he walked away at even 500k it would be hard to dispute that he was cheating because he could say it was legit and felt any of his answers was hard to choose to with 500k on the line. He’s an idiot but gladly he got caught
125-250k is probably the max he could have gotten away with. At 500k there's still too much evidence, but yeah going all the way to the million was a ridiculous decision.
@@PortlandMan Oh, OK then.
@@PortlandMan He does look and sound like a bit of a slimeball.
I know that we shouldn’t judge by appearance and sound but, I’ve yet to meet somebody that looks and sounds like a slimeball that actually isn’t one.
Apparently even after the guilty verdict he continued to deny this and got convicted of insurance fraud not long after.
He must think people are really stupid.
Yet in reality he is the stupid one trying to cheat his way to a million pounds sporting such a creepy grin
Get to 32k with his cheating tactic and then use whatever lifelines left and take the free shot at 64k. And the guy helping him got greedy too.
Just stop coughing after 32k and leave him on his own.
Or finally to make it look totally innocous cheat your way to 64k...
Then the cougher coughs at the Wrong answer and you lose your way back to 32k. Then your defense is infallible.
Ingram is the type of guy who is too stupid to cheat properly.
Is he though? Would you have come up with this idea yourself in the first place? Also, would you act differently knowing you’re cheating and that millions of people are watching you?
Same with Hillary.
@@DK07x True... It was basic... If he wasn't caught noone would have guessed it... 😂
My man literally coughed and said "no" hahah
@Darren Harper when was that cough? Timestamp?
@@jrv7054 5:01
I actually knew the 1 million pound question
I cant believe how easy the last few questions were
Same
No shit, in 2020 al these terms are used a lot more than they were back when this was recorded
Haha😆
But I knew the answer
you can tell from their behavior when he answered the million dollar question that they cheated. they weren't even happy. they looked guilty. the guilt of being in front of people on TV trumped the winning a million. their faces showed it all.
yea the girl at the end wasent even happy she looked paranoid
It wasn’t guilt so much as fear. She knew that he got too greedy by going all the way and that they were most certainly going to get caught. That’s probably why they were heard yelling and arguing with each other after the show
10:55 “I have no idea what your strategy was.” You better believe what it was.
OMG THE WIFE'S REACTION WHEN HE SAYS HE DOESN'T EVEN KNOW WHAT A GOOGOL IS
His girlfriend/wife IS PISSEDDDDD WHEN HE ACCEPTS GOOGOL
LOLLLLLL
She was annoyed at him not picking it at the first coughs
She was pissed even more when they went back to their dressing room after the show. The staff could hear them arguing outside the room when they should’ve been so happy.
You can tell the wife was pissed when he played the 1 million
Yeah its all over her face, she looks guilty and angry. They probably all agreed to stop at half a million, maybe lower but he got greedy. You can tell she wasnt happy about it.
It must have been so obvious for the people sitting near her, bizarre that they thought they were going to get away with it
The couple behind her 😄😄😂 they knew lol
I don't get why nobody stood up and complained that they were cheating...
@@peelyb they knew but didn’t give a shit 😂
@@Mr.scarecrow1 yes ofc
1:46 the guy behind her facepalms 😅
I wish someone could re edit the footage so it's farting instead. ❤️
OMG GREAT IDE
Omniscient well i mean since you’re omniscient you would know the definition of a joke.
@@spade7646 or maybe let's see how well Ben Shephard does on Who wants to be a Millionaire vs James May.
Or edit it so its like taz d and mousey playing and farting and coughing
@@joshtab3991 are you sure
The wife looks like me fake coughing when I don't want to answer a question in class,,, it's so obvious
Surely the Craig David question should have set alarm bells off the fact that he says that he has never heard of Craig David but then he locks in Craig David
These folks were missing one thing. Self awareness. The wife is ON CAM looking wild rolling he eyes and coughing, Tecwen actually said NO sitting directly next to other potential players and the contestant guessed answers he admittedly had no idea of...
Yeah the dumbest thieves team ever.
And her reaction wasn’t at all what you’d expect after seeing your significant other win the top prize.
When he said “I’m going for a break” I got an ad
Same lol I genuinely thought that they were showing the break
Coughs aside, it seems so obvious the way he’s answering the questions, contestants usually think out loud and explain their reasoning whilst going through options, whereas C. I. just saying ”i don’t think it’s this, i think it’s this”, ocassionally changing his mind with no explaination why.
watching this guy plays and I had to rewatch all other performances of the genuine winners. It is actually a pleasure to watch them play instead of this guy, especially Ingram Wilcox, where he gave all his reasons, his deduction for each answer.
"Erm I dont think it's this. But it might be this. Hehehe. I've never heard of this so- *cough cough* Yeah I'll go with this anyway"
What kind of erudition are we talking about if he says 3 lines all over the show?
He screwed it up when he used his lives too early THEN started saying
'never heard of it', 'it's not that'
*cough cough.
Yep that's the one.
Yep, the last question really gave it away. I've never heard of that or that, not sure what a googol is, *cough*, well in a process of elimination it must be a googol...
@@WaveForcefulthe question before it too, “i definitely think it’s Berlin, it’s not Paris”
Tecwin : *cough* NO!!!
“Nvm it is Paris final answer.”
Diana only looked pleased for like 10 seconds then went sour
11:06 The face of guilt
Wow, a fellow anarchist in the wild
And she probably knew deep down they were gonna get caught.
Charles made it too obvious something was up in the final few questions.
I guess if he took the 250 thousand and quit he never been caught cheating but he get greedy
5:20 the girl on the top left talking about something naughty lol
Haha
She can talk dirty to me any time
Should have served a prison sentence for major fraud.
According to “QUIZ” the 2020 re-enactment of this incident, it shows that they were in debt and the whole reason for going on the show in the first place was to win the jackpot to pay it off. That would explain why Dianna, her brother and Charles all went on the show and they were so desperate they eventually resorted to cheating their way through to the end.
I think MANY people are living paycheck to paycheck, and would like to win $one million. It’s not just because they were in debt, as their driving desire to be on the show. (& cheat to win) Many people have a credit card debt. So the fact that they’re in debt, is the main culprit for them cheating. I think $1 million would change 95% of the people life’s. (regardless if you’re in debt already or not)
Someone who’s not in debt, i.e. a low income earner would also have a desire to cheat as well.
2:31
19 significant coughs
*Covid-19*
For those of you thinking the last question was easy, keep in mind back then there weren't about 1000 videos on UA-cam of people talking about the end of the universe and what a googol means like there are now. lol
yeah but many people knew what a nanomole, a gigabit and who Megatron is. Or at least what giga- and nano- stand for in science. It's very basic knowledge for a million dollar question.
My teacher taught us what a googol is in 6th grade, back in 1992. That was an easy question.
@@giannis5250 In 2001, those were all things most people didn't know. Among average people on the street - non-quizz-wizzes - only people who took at least A Levels in Biology or Chemistry would know what a nanomole is, even now, and only nerds and IT workers would have known what a gigabit was or have heard of Megatron. If you listen to news stories from the late nineties and early 2000s, university-educated middle-aged journalists sounded more clueless about technology than most working class 100 year olds would today. They phrased things like an old person would, e.g. "computer websites" because people didn't know what the Internet or world wide web were, and scoffed at the idea that mobile phones with colour screens or mobile games more advanced than Snake would ever be more than a passing fad.
Actually, I first heard of a googol when I was small, which was no more than a few years after this episode aired. That's why it was my guess from the start. I've never heard of the B and C choices before this
Did a gigabyte even exist back then? Only in theory, likely. Megabit was more common.
Imagine if some random person just coughed on the wrong answer 🥵
10:56 ‘I have no idea what your strategy was.’ ‘Just go for it. Just go for it. Be hard.’ The look of guilt and bullshit in his eyes, waiting to get off set, and then cut to his wife, the guilt and sense of despair in her eyes as if she knows there’s every chance they will be found out. She looks so awkward walking off, not even smiling, her entire body language is not what you’d expect from someone who has just won a million pounds. And on live television. Bizarre.
Fortunately for them, it wasn't live and I believe it was never aired until the documentary in 2003 about their cheating.
Yes it’s googol even tho I don’t know what that is,I’m just a cheating bastard Chris
9:32 She knows it went too far now
Remove ALL the coughing from this and they both still look as guilty as sin. He talked and moved about far too much, she acted her way through the whole thing. It's blatantly obvious!
Love how they're crying together at the end like it worked! IT ACTUALLY WORKED!! 🤣😂
she looks guilty and angry.
@@WaveForceful because he didn’t know when to stop 🤦🏿♂️, he fucked it up for them
@@joeshort2185 I think they probably would have got away with it around the 32,000 - 64,000 mark.
It was his incoherent flipflopping when the serious money was involved that coincided with that cough that gave it away.
Nope you could tell from her reaction that she knew there was no way in hell they’d be getting away with it.
@@WaveForcefulI think £250,000. The last two questions were the smoking gun that proved it beyond any reasonable doubt.
if he wasn't did acting " i am never heard before" surley he couldn't be caught.
Yea fr
He shouldn't have said "I have never heard this before" 100 times😂
@@BLUE...RED....BLACK000 Yeah that just sealed the deal that he was guilty.
Not only did it make not a lick of sense, but you wouldn’t gamble like that with all the money on the line.
@@RB01.10 true
Or if he stopped after £250,000. It would be suspicious up to that point but not enough to prove beyond a reasonable doubt.
When he said the nail biteing part I was busting my nails aha
2:25 "DID YOU HEAR THAT?"
No, I'm deaf.
First cough now in 2021, everybody run out from that stage
The cough with the no always makes me laugh... 😂
They totally sucked at pulling that off.
Video asking “did you hear that...”ya, I heard the super obvious coughing.
There was that "Monk" episode where the host would hold the card by its respective "A-B-C-D" corner to give away the answer...
oh yes i remember
His whole demenor when talking out loud the potential answers but giving no logic to his answer then changing his mind, was the huge suspicion for the production crew, even before they picked up on the coughing.
TBH it was a good plan that could have worked if he used lifelines, stop saying IDK all the time, and not being greedy. Maybe then, he would have gotten away with it :L
After the wife walked to the stage to celebrate she suddenly lost her cough, I think confetti cures the common cough. Just don't let the pharmaceutical companies find out this information because bags of confetti would dramatically increase by 100,000%
Never seen such guilt on ones face like is written on her's.
After the music i thought he would say "Namskar Deviyo aur sajjano"😂
Lmao I feel like after ten coughs I would start to get looks. Well, one in today’s time (covid) 😂
The last question was one of the easier questions... one of those fun facts kids learn in school
Here to see the actual footage bec of QUIZ show
The thing that surprises me is, THAT was a million pound question ?? Seriously ? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
yep agreed
I know, my 8 year old son learned that the other day in school
It was 2001, the average adult was much less likely to be familiar with those words than today.
How they can cheat what are they using??
We found patient zero of this mess we're in
yeah almost everyone knew the million pound question but the challenge is how you'll get there with those difficult questions beforehand
This was 2001 though, when the Internet wasn’t as big yet
_What did the Casket say to the other Casket?_
_Was that you Coffin'? xD_
Haha haha
Never heard of craig david but chose as an answer after the cough lol
It was obvious after he blew the Craig David question. How could he not know the No 1 album for 2000 in the year 2001?
I couldn't tell you the No 1 album of 2019, or 2020, or really any year. It's not in my sphere of news, so there is really no reason for me to know that information.
I didn't. But how had he not heard of Coldplay?
Openly admitting to never having heard of 3 of the answers, being sure it was A1 and then flopping onto Craig David is massively suspicious. He should have had enough awareness there to think the jig was up. Walking off with 32,000 would have been enough.
If you do this now. If you cough, you will be quarantined 😂
if you cough nowadays, its not answer, that might be COVID 😂🤣
It's actually scary to think that the coughs indicate that the answer is right
if i was there & noticed that, i would cough at the answer i was sure to be wrong, and make him lose 😂
The difference between Charles Ingram and Michael Larson is that Michael got his $110,237 and Charles got publicly humiliated and shamed.
i wish i can do that in our classroom during exam days😅
I think it's a nanomole, but it could be a gigabit, I don't think it's a megatron and I have say I don't think I've heard of a googol *cough cough*
I think it's a googol. I play googol.
😏
Can you imagine a sneeze happening in their cheating ways?😂
"And by process of elimination..." Like wtf are you eliminating bro😂
It’s so painfully obvious especially in a game show choice answer situation. What were the people around her doing?? Hahaha did they really not notice it for the whole show
how’d no one noticed this while it was happening??????
Go on son, fill ya...coughers 🤣🤣🤣
“bye sis” 😂
The wife should have played. She smarter then him. Coughing the right answers.
😂😂 “*cough* no”
im surprised the wife didn't give up halfway and was like "I'm sick of this I've already coughed 10 times just say c !"
When you know it seems ludicrously obvious, I watched it at the time and never gave it a thought.
After humiliating himself with the A1 segment, he should've gone up to $32k, free guess, and then stopped at either result. He made himself look foolish even his wife is looking at him like an idiot. He's like a bank robber wearing bright orange clothing and wielding a kitchen knife as his weapon
there were even special episodes where 2 people could play the game together and still didnt even get very far, I mean his peepz at least were quite clever knowing all the answers ? but how dumb can you be saying "I never heard of that/him" if you dont know yet if exactly this could be the right answer... just act like youve heard of all of the things already..
Yeah I think they were on the couple's special
The best will always be Cough Cough No!!!
When was that?
She wanted to get the hell out of there before anyone realized.
Fantastic our scheme worked 😂😂😂
How did she know the answers? She couldn’t of been on her phone as she would of got noticed earlier
There was a third person who gave her the answer and she directed the answer to him via a cough
Her cough was so fake lmao. ridiculous.and why did the dude cough 8 times per question?? just cough once lmao.
Perfect scheme if the coughs are signals. Tough to prove lol
Imagine waiting for this guy to lose so you can try to have a go and the guy next to you is Covid's Patient Zero.
Plot twist : it was the first covid case
Plot twist, they got away with it, however; she had T.B. and gave it to her husband. Six weeks later they both died of it!!
Well his wife and friend are really stupid because they ever caught when he actually was Wright
They should have only caught when he chooses the wrong answer
They couldn't cough like all the time lol
One cough for right, two for wrong
You pull that coughing trick again today, you will get everyone into lockdown and quarantine!!!