“We don’t think - and we went through it pretty carefully - that they actually broke any rules. “It would mean they made a few hundred thousand out of quite a lot of contestants. When they’re claiming that ‘Over the years we made £7 or £8 million’, I don’t believe that. “We knew that there was a syndicate of fanatical quizzers who were trying to work out ways of getting together and winning money on the show. Some of the sums of money that they claimed, I honestly don’t believe. He said: “I talk to Paul Smith and co about it quite often.
Two men have bragged of milking Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? of millions of pounds in prize money thanks to their Northern Ireland-based phone syndicate.īut Chris Tarrant - famed for fronting around 600 episodes of Millionaire - insists the team didn’t take anywhere near the amount they claim from the show.Īnd he believes they were only testing the system to its limits and didn’t cheat.Ĭhris (75) shared his views with Sunday Life after Dungannon man Keith Burgess and his English quiz fanatic pal Paddy Spooner told how they rinsed at least £4.2m from the ITV show.
