James Thompson unwittingly whispered an answer to his accomplice during 2001 TV quiz show.
Media playback is unsupported on your deviceA former contestant on the TV quiz show Who Wants To Be A Millionaire says he may have inadvertently helped Charles Ingram cheat his way to the jackpot.He says he innocently gave an answer to Tecwen Whittock, who was later convicted of his part in a plot to use coughing to signify correct answers.
"I wasn't really aware of any background noise. People cough and sneeze and everything else, but when it got to the million pound question, strangely I happened to know the answer."Sian Clifford and Matthew Macfadyen play Diana and Charles Ingram in a three-part ITV series entitled Quiz.
He added:"The major did plump for googol and of course the rest was history, he'd won the one million pounds on the evening."He said:"I thought there was something, not deceitful or dishonest, but something very very strange was unfolding before my eyes." On the ITV drama he said:"From my perspective, in light of the fact that they were convicted, I thought it probably lent or portrayed Major Ingram and his wife rather too sympathetically."
He added:"Obviously at the end of the drama it says they are considering an appeal which, you know, after 19 years, why not?"
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