Top 10 Biggest FAILS on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire UK

Is that REALLY your final answer?? For this list, WatchMojo UK counts down the biggest, most catastrophic and most memorable fails on the UK edition of "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?". Whether it's contestants leaving the show with nothing, asking the audience only to be let down by their answer, or conspiring to commit serious fraud on a criminal scale... these are some truly epic game show disasters!

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[graduator]

Serious Fraud Office: Charles Ingram, have you commited fraud on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?
Charles Ingram: I think I want to say yes...
Wife: **coughs**
Charles Ingram: No! I meant to say no.

[Stegblob]

The traffic lights one gets me every time

[scsutton]

There's Jeremy Clarkson infamously saying, rather confidently, that an ibex was a deer and only finding out when he looked at the screen to see that the right answer was goat, meaning that the contestant was wrong and had lost £15, 000 and not won £32, 000.

[Lava]

There was the university student who lost £7, 000 on a question that asked her how many centimeters are in 100 meters. She knew she had to multiply 100 by 100 and she still got the wrong answer. She said 100, 000!

[admiralsven]

I can recall one episode where 97% of the audience gave a wrong answer and only 3% got it right on a £16, 000 question celebrity special. That's got to be in there. Great video though.

[clairevoyant]

Came across a episode where someone didn't know if the earth orbits round the sun in a day, week, month or year... she needed to use a lifeline. Bloody amazing

[PhaRoaH]

Jeez. Can we hear at least a bit of the clips?

[mr.balloffur]

if you've never seen Starsky and Hutch, and I doubt she has considering her age, you're not going to know the answer regardless of how easy other people think it is

[lordusmaximus]

The Ingram one was a blatant give away on that ‘born to do it’ question

[dannemannen]

2019 in Sweden a contestant lost 490.000. He was at the million question and he had chosen 4 life lines instead of 3=in Sweden that means your only safety net is 10.000. He had call a friend left but his friend couldn't google fast enough (yeah that's still a thing over here) and he went for it and got it wrong and went down to 10.000.

And sure our price money is in SEK which is way less money than GBP but still...

[davidwormell]

Kepple's questions were loaded towards her profile and some of her recent history which was known to the shows producers, as it was on a form she had to fill in.

[rigel]

Terrible video. Too much talking and cutting instead of letting us watch the clips as they were broadcast.

[glsweeney]

The first $0 winner in the US was allegedly wearing his lucky shorts, but when he got the first question wrong Regis told him to take those lucky shorts off and BURN THEM

[ToastyMuppet]

I didn’t know the Jane Austin one either. Thank you Ashley for saying easy is a perspective

[KT]

The tennis question said "What is THE THE minimum number of strokes..."
OMG I got the answer right for the traffic lights question and I can't even drive! :O

[samuelgiles]

I have seen the ITV drama, Quiz, which is based on the Major Fraud scandal.

[markymark]

In the Ollie Blake case, the audience was wrong because of two blunders the contestant made:
1. Using the 50/50 before asking the audience, making guess answers less spread out and more deceiving had there been 4 answers to choose from.
2. Saying all of his thoughts out loud, thus inevitably leading the audience in a certain direction and rendering the lifeline not only useless, but misleading, as they were only going for that answer because it was what he said he thought it was.

So it's much more his fault for using terrible strategy than it was theirs for not knowing the answer.

[JMESOXD]

I remember watching both episodes where the contestants lost £218, 000 - the plane one was obviously going to be the least obvious one because who would choose 'Jason' as a random answer. The man who blindly gambled on the height of an Oscar statuette made a terrible decision and I still have no idea why they played.

[fiddleronthecube]

Tennis question: 36. You serve 12 aces to win your 3 games. Opponent double faults 4 times in each of his three games. 12 +24 =36. Theoretically, no strokes are needed if your opponent doesn't play at all because of injury or sickness. I forgot what the term is. There's also a bye which is a win without playing. Top seeded players get byes.

[bronxscratcher]

What about in that episode of the Clarkson era with that question about an ibex? After the contestant gave his answer, Clarkson said, "I'm not even going to look at the screen. That's the correct answer." The answer turned out to be wrong.