Today in 2001, a man cheated on a gameshow. Charles Ingram was a contestant on the UK version of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?". This wasn't his first time on a game show, as he had previously done poorly on a few other game shows, but this time he went all the way and became the third person to win the show's million dollar jackpot. However, the crew noticed he was acting funny afterwards, and decided to look over the footage from his episode.
What they found was his wife and her brother had been coughing loudly after the correct answers were read off. And if you haven't watched Who Wants to Be a Millionaire before, it's a show where any help for the contestant is limited to single use lifelines. As a result, Charles and company were charged with Criminal Deception for their cheating. Despite this, some people think he still could have been innocent and the coughing was a coincidence, especially as Ingram maintained his innocence the entire time. Regardless, it was one game nobody else in the audience could have possibly predicted the ending of.
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