A MILLIONAIRE Hot Seat contestant lost a whopping £99K on a very tricky English poetry question – but would you have got it right?
The re-vamped ITV quiz show returned this week, with anchor Jeremy Clarkson at the helm.
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After one show star was left foxed by a difficult art question earlier in the week, another brain-teaser has seen fans left stunned by a huge cash loss.
Contestant Padraig found himself brought back into play towards the end of Wednesday’s episode, with Jeremy warning it was “bad news” for other hopefuls as he would be the last one to tackle the questions in the 30-minute episode.
He told Padraig: “If you get this right you win £100,000, if you get it wrong we will give you £1,000”.
The show star then joked: “I’ll take the first option Jeremy”.
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Jeremy clarified: “There’s £99K resting on whether you know the answer to this question,” ramping up the drama further as he quipped it was “tense times”.
He then read out the question: “Which of these famous English poems was written first?”
The answer options were The Tyger by Blake, Don Juan by Byron, Ode on a Grecian Urn by Keats and To A Skylark by Shelley.
He admitted it would be a “complete guess” and started to study the words and how “old” they were.
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He said he was “pushed towards” Don Juan but was then told the answer was actually The Tyger.
Host Jeremy then said: “I am really, really sorry about that”.
Fans also took to X to comment on the shock twist of events.
One wrote: “Shame they lost 100,000 tonight. God this show is so tricky for anyone to win money”.
A second posted: “Oooh that was so close. £1,000 is better than nothing though”.
A third mused: “Painful. Luck can be lovely, but then it can be a devil”.
One then surmised: “Can’t see anybody winning the £1m in this format”.
Unlike the original Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?, the spin-off sees six contestants take turns in Jeremy Clarkson’s famous Hot Seat with only one winner.
Players race against the clock without any lifelines. A correct answer moves the game up the money ladder, while a wrong answer knocks the contestant out and reduces the jackpot.
They can also pass, sending them to the back of the queue and forcing the next player to tackle the same question.
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Clarkson has likened the format to “a very expensive game of musical chairs”.
Millionaire Hot Seat airs tonight at 7.30pm on ITV1 and ITVX and continues every weeknight.