Charles Ingram - The Major Fraud Documentary
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The Major Fraud
On the 9th of September 2001 British army major Charles Ingram got into the hot seat on itvs biggest game show "who wants to be a millionaire".
After winning the jackpot of £1000000 he was arrested alongside his wife Diana and fellow contestant Tecwen Whittock on a charge of "procuring the execution of a valuable security by deception".
It was alleged by the shows producers that major Ingram had cheated his way to the top prize by listening for carefully placed coughs by both his wife Diana and fellow contestant Tecwen Whittock.
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They were too obvious. They shoulda had a cough for A. A sneeze for B. A hiccup for C. And a massive fart for D.
🤣🤣🤣🤣💀💀💀💀
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A 😷
B 🙄
C 😳
D 🤢
Oh my god, I'm dying 😂😂😂😂😂😂
That would be stupid plan. At £32,000 question everyone in the room would have died for gas poisoning.
Fun fact: when this documentary first went out, the first advert in the ad break was for Benelyn cough syrup 😂
Classic ITV 😂😂😂
That’s actually true I remember myself.
@@ThatBritishSnep lmao yes - absolutely brilliant hahaha
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his only mistake was going for 1mln, if he stops at 500k or 250k no one will investigated his case.
Greed ruins all
Roflmao😂😂
They were already suspicious by 16,000
The program even stated that had he stopped at £125,000 at the highest, then this whole thing would have never happened.
Only mistake? Lol
The fact that they actually aired the episode immediately after the documentary was just brilliant. The ratings for that one episode must have been through the roof.
he should've put a zapper that has a slight zap in his bum, and he would've got away with it with no evidence 😂😂
@@brandonstevenson3304 like the more recent chess championship cheater that used remote control anal beads? Oh it's true.
It actually never aired
@@lisabell2573 if the episode did air, the ratings would have gone through the roof. But still ingram is still defo a cheater.
They never aired the episode
I had such a hard time finishing this doc cause I was cringing so hard the whole time. There’s something about seeing people cheat that gives me unbearable second hand embarrassment lmao
Same, especially when he said ,,it could be Switzerland, or it could be France, but then again it could be Italy, or Netherlands" that made me cringe so hard, he made it so painstakingly obvious
OMG me too!!!!! 😭😭😭😭😭🥴
Every time his head went to one side
Same I fw: most of it LOL
Soo true 😅
Staff should of started coughing for wrong answers lol
Genius
have
I don't think so, by the time they caught on, if they were to disrupt his plan, he would have walked away with the money. It turned out better thus way...HE GOT CAUGHT DIDNT HE
@MI.101 an English teacher with free time lol
LOL
-whats your name?
-charles ingram?
*cough*
-yes, definitely. Charles ingram.
😂
And the asking "God" one ! 😂
Lol brilliant comment!
😅😅😅
🤣🤣
😂😂 🎯
What's even more hilarious, is after they were found guilty, few years later they were then found guilty of insurance fraud 🤣
They werent even locked up
They did make a musiical called QUIZ
😂
@@sasskvetch8617 agreed even chris T kept indirectly reminding him of the debts he owed
How the hell did this weapon become a Major in the British army 🙄 no crook like a posh crook.
Host: Who wants to be a millionaire?
Charles: Me
Woman: *cough*
Charles: Us
🤣 good one
You know it
Stop ittttt 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🪦🪦🪦🪦🪦🪦🪦🪦🪦⚰️⚰️⚰️⚰️⚰️⚰️⚰️⚰️🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣💀💀💀💀💀💀💀
Underrated. *cough
Lool😂
Imagine being on this show and constantly saying you've never heard of something only to choose that answer.
ironically it makes sense for the final question. i would have done the same. Mega- is the prefix for 10^6, Giga- is 10^9, and Nano is 10^-9, all of which I know from basic science classes.
Additionally, Megatron is from Transformers (I think he’s a decepticon?), Gigabit is a measurement usually used in internet speed, and a Nanomole is a chemistry unit. So I probably would go for Googol
@@DinosaurSuccess Yeah, but there are some questions called "tricked questions". Normal logic wouldn't work well if you encounter these questions and you never know if a question is a tricked question.
I actually did not know what Googol was but I ruled out the other 3 because two of them only had 6 and 9 zeros while Nano is less than one. But the way Charles was doing it was so illogical and hilarious like he's throwing darts in the dark and hoping from the heavens to win. I would've stopped at 32k or 64k if I were him after I made myself look dumb on the Craig David portion
"Craig David, I've never heard of him. Craig David, I have no idea who he is"
Cough. 10 seconds later.
"Yeah, I'll go with Craig David. Final answer"
Foolish to be willing to risk all of that monies/$468,000 over an answer he had no clue about! He told on himself! It also didn't help their case after they went into the back as husband and wife, arguing over his greed, to the top of their lungs, for others to hear. They had agreed to stop at a certain amount to avoid suspicion. Unfortunately $125,000.00 wasn't enough!🤷🏽♀That is more of the reason to deal in HONESTY! It will always be better to have less, and the peace therewith, then the riches of the many wicked, and the confusion that follows!👍🏽🫶🏾
Update:
After this scandal came out, he had to resign from the military. Currently, he is a "Director of Operations" for his wifes candle business and has declared bankruptcy 4 times.
Wow! 😲
😮 poor thing at least he has a job
Pretty sure he wrote a book too
This sounds like what would have happened to Michael Scott if he hadn't met Holly Flax
@@debbiejones4935too funny!!
"A1 is the only band I've heard of here, I don't know who Craig David is. Never heard of him...I'm going Craig David. Never been more certain of anything in my life. Craig David, final answer".
Only would have worked if he said he knew all of A1's songs and this isn't one of them so it must be Craig David.
So here is my thinking, I get he was cheating, but I can imagine myself picking someone I never heard of if I had fair confidence that the ones I did know DID NOT put that album out.
@@fmm3487I would do the same
This is so funny because it would never work in a post-covid world. The second someone coughs now everyone is immediately suspicious
yet epstein didn’t kill himself and nobody cares our elite would’ve got exposed
Haha right, the amount of sneezes I have in public but have to hold them in, or make them as quiet as possible sucks. I used to be able to sneeze up a storm in the shops. Coughs included can't help but feel judged haha
Just so you know, post means after. In other words, over. Therefore, it would be in the past and no one would panic.
@@stephenfox8685 Not really. Post can be used relatively to describe the aftermath of one event occuring. A post-covid world can mean any time after covid initially occured and blew up.
Lmao good point.
The most striking thing for me is that as he eliminates the wrong answers he’s unable to evidence any of his choices with any reasoning. Absolutely bang on a cheat.
Exactly. I reasoned N Ireland w River Foyles. (Knowing Irish named Doyle and Boyle). Also, he has whatI recognize as psychopath eyes. 🕶 Also, the fraudster has no bounds w greediness. He could have at least tripped up earlier on and walked away w less $, proving the cougher wrong if he could not show how he knew the correct answer.
He also assumes because the Baron has a German last name he would have designed Berlin and not Paris.
Another thing I noticed was Chris Tarrant really accentuated the fact that his "methods" or method of deduction made no sense, so it struck me funny because he didn't even know it was going on but he really made it seem obvious something was amiss
yeah since the beginning questions, his explanation of why he chose an answer is very vague. Even the host doesn't got his reasoning as well. Just funny obvious
what the fuck are you talking about
It's amazing that 3 peeps in a immediate family got on the same show
Fraud... it's in the title.
And then both of them lost and 1 ends up winning 🤔
Is it though?
@@2Guys1ControllerShowyes?
@@caramelprincess521 And the ones that lost were clearly smarter than the one who won.
The big problem was that Charles Ingram was so dumb he needed help on every answer. If Tecwen Whittock was up there, he would have only needed help on 1 question.
Tecwen Whitlock bummed out at £4000 when he was in the hot seat. Also, don't forget that most of the correct answers he coughed for Ingram were stolen from fellow contestants.
I could not prevent me from burst into laugh at the "no" hidden within the cough 🤣
Yeah, they were really stupid 😂
Same here
He was so dumb he even forgot his own cheating system 😂😂
@@Mark-lj1dj (Cough) No
That’s what exposed the whole thing I believe, but I got a great laugh out of that part!
i'd like to use my cough lifeline
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Omg 😆
So hilarious 😂
Lol
Lmao
He was exaggerating his performance and taking too long to make a choice. It was obvious
The bigger crime here is, that he has never heared of Coldplay. That's 10 to 25 right there.
I'm from Chicago,IL and I love Coldplay!🤷
Coldplay listeners are all vaccinated love to wear masks and watch BBC news.
Eww I wish I never heard of them
@@VanessaCurry711 ahahah
Even uns in Africa know Coldplay pre TH-cam
This is how Monty Python would have executed the same scam, this is comedy gold
for real.😂
The bigger evidence (out of so many) is this one: he never seemed afraid to risk loosing what he already had by choosing an answer he was completely blind about. His behavior just wasn’t normal. A normal person would be very reluctant in risking half a million by just relying in luck or gut feeling. Even the host felt like he wasn’t conflicted at all. And do that multiple times during the game! That says everything
bad actor
But he really blew it when the producer rang to tell Ingram they had a few doubts and until they're looked into it, he wasn't getting the money. And this is where he made his first big mistake. Instead of protesting and being genuinely pissed off- as any honest winner would be- his response was a sanguine one of, "Oh really? Gosh..." Just as any cop will tell you, when a innocent person is arrested they pace their cell, clearly agitated, and can't rest; the guilty have a "It's a fair cop!" attitude and settle down to face the inevitable.
For me it's his manner of saying "I've never heard of this or that" and second later after the cough he chose that answer. That was one of his mistakes - he should read through all the possibilities without claiming "Oh, I never heard of X" half the time
But sometimes the contestant for whatever reason hooks on the right answer without knowing why. Is a gut feeling
It's weird I honestly didn't know any of the questions except for Onassis,and I gut guess them all correct.
The second hand embarrassment is IMMENSE
That million dollar question would be an entry level question now and days.
"nowadays"
*pounds
Not with that kind of spelling
Does anyone else just periodically look up this documentary every few years and watch the whole thing as procrastination? When moving house, for example.
Can agree
Currently doing that very thing right now
Honestly I forget about this until it randomly pops into my head and I have to rewatch it 😂
I watched this 5 years ago and came back again today to watch this
Omg I do that 🤣🤣🤣 I sometimes want to watch it but then I think “no I watched it last year, wait til next year and it’ll feel more fresh”😂😂😂
So when you watch his wife panicking and full of anxiety in the audience, now we know it was because he was pushing his luck and risking it all going to a level much further than they agreed to, not because she was scared of him losing the game.
it's the same
Agreed, and the body language at the end of the show, so not what you'd expect, so low key and almost diminished a kind of celebration. Might be a stretch to imagine they were showing subliminal guilty consiences.
She knew at the end they were gonna end up getting rumbled.
Like one of the production team said in this documentary, if he had called it a day at the £125K mark then its likely they would have let it go. That is exactly 12.5% of a million (not bad at all) - but he then pushed it and ended up with 0% of a million and nothing except criminal charges and an unwanted reputation.
I personally thought she was anxious because he would choose the wrong answer because her reaction were so evil and she even helped him her self by a caught it can make sense when the guy caughs constantly we say he is sick but they can't be both sick and have caughs !!
the man sitting behind his wife laughing when she double coughs is sending me 😂😂
At what time?
That was freaking hilarious 😂😂
It wasn't her doing the coughing it was the other contestant
25:35
@@vaitoloa5473she DID double cough on the Craig David answer cause Whitlock was quiet and the husband was stumped.
My favorite part of this is watching the wife's increasingly exasperated reactions as he keeps making it more and more obvious. It's like she wants to scream 'Holy s**t, you idiot, what is wrong with you?!'
I'm watching this with ten minutes left and I'm seeing in the comments that it reveals she did scream at him afterward. Pretty easy to see why.
near the end, it is reported that had a huge row in the dreasing room. 😂 not exactly what youd expect after "winning" a million.
yeah thats what i thought too, she was getting increasingly annoyed at him because he was making it too obvious
'Craig David... never heard of him'... 2 minutes later 'yep, I'll go with Craig David!'
Never watched coronation street or heard of Craig David haha that's evidence enough he was cheating
Imagine Craig David saw this and got offended 😂
"Coldplay... never heard of 'em.."
(Hmmm... was Jackie O. married to a man whose last intial was "O"..? The *suspense* is killing me!)
@@erinthesystem9608 Yeah., not knowing Jackie Kennedy's second husband is really bad.
How could you not know Craig David 🤣 🤷🏾♂️🤦🏽♂️ that will do me
You can tell he is cheating, he doesn't even give any information as to why he is choosing that answer. Nobody is that lucky lol
the man didn’t give ‘information’ ie reasoning for his answers throughout
Therefore it wasn’t a notable change in behavior
True. Taking the first 5 questions off, which usually are easy, you'd need to guess right answer 10 times in a row, that's (1/4)^10 power or 1/1048576 chance he'd got THAT lucky :)
@@RK-su4hssomebody who knows something will tend to show that off by either saying the KNOW that is the wrong answer and usually also why. This guy was pretty much guessing all the way, and likely never in his life even came second to last in a pub trivia, always last.
@@bjornlangoren3002 assumption based on what reasoning? curious
@@RK-su4hs Human behavior. Also people completely floundering will try to exact clues from the host, in the form of thinking loud and observe the hosts's reaction. This guy wasn't looking at the host. He was listening intently. Also he was not very smart, as the producers opined, not expecting him to get more than a couple of questions before failing. He knew nothing compared to his wife, who was rolling her eyes when he was lost on some easy questions. And he overdid it.. when he finally got a cough to confirm an answer he repeated it so many times, that his poor accomplice nearly choked from all tbe coughing. Stupid people might not recognize stupid when they see it. They think stupid is normal, and smart is just lucky. Stupid people also think you can successfully guess your way with 1/1000 in odds. 1/1000 is not a coin toss.
My favorite part was watching the wife losing her mind in the audience, knowing that the game was up, knowing they'd pressed their luck too far and being incapable of stopping it. She's watching a train wreck in slow motion and she's on the train. 😆
I don't understand. If she knew all the answers and was so intellegent. Why did she not go on the show instead of her husband and win legit .
@@sleepyjoescumbag1663 She had previously been on the show and only got to 32,000.
🤔🤔 .. I wonder more, how come the "partners in crime" knew all the answers to help the guy .. anyway, last 5 questions were difficult even for "the partners"
@@ghostmarco530 the main helper, that Tech "whatshisname", asked quitely to the other contestants if they knew the answer, like with the hat for example. As soon as someone else confirmed it, he would cough.
@@sgthulk9 .. so actually there were involved all the people in the studio 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 .. never enough of human tricks and money in this life ..😂😂 .. thnx for the explanation I was probably still asleep in the morning when I watched it .. regards
Judge: “Chris Ingram, do you plead guilty or not guilty?”
“Oh gosh that’s a tough one. Hmm let me think. Guilty……that doesn’t seem right. Mmm not guilty…”
*cough cough*
“ Yes lock in b - not guilty please”
Final cough answer?.
Chris wasn't guilty but CHARLES was... 😳🤔😂😂😂
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂👍
imagine if another person in the audience would cough! at the wrong time!😂😂😂
😂😂
There was lots of coughing going on. Whittock did much more than those highlighted for a start
I thought same
Greed is a bitch
I wish they would that would have been super funny.
His biggest crime was that shirt.
🤣
Fr 😂😂😂😂
An even bigger crime is wearing the same shirt for two nights in a row.
@@wakt21exactly. I thought maybe they shot it in one day and cut in two segments, but then the hosts suit was different lol.. why tf would someone wear the exact same shirt twice? Hideous or not?
@@Toosii2timesMaybe because it just doesn't matter?
Why didn’t his friend just play 😂
Cause the friend didn't have all the answers. When he finally got into the hot seat, he bummed out at £4000.
He did...and won only 1k lol.
The amazing thing is that he "miraculously" was cured of his cough the instant he sat in the hot seat...hmmmm
The fact that he has 3 kids and still takes this risk is even more shameful
+@Cbirduk1990,
He'd be forgivable, if he had admitted the truth, but he still lies to this day.
If he had said "me and my wife were 50k in debt, as a Major I thought I'd be retired by now, I wasn't stealing from poor people, I knew what I was doing was wrong, and rightly so I was caught, and I would encourage others to not look for a quick fix like I did".
At least that way, I'd forgive him, I'd never want to share a Pint with him, but at least I'd say "he's Human, anyone of us could have been in his situation".
Who cares. The fact that this is even a story in the UK is humorous.
Shh@@Izzyizzyizzy123
@@Izzyizzyizzy123Straight up. Honestly who cares. Terrible parents on every block and in every pub.
@Izzyizzyizzy123 r u kidding? Someone caught cheating on a hugely popular worldwide quiz show wins a milliion and you think that's not even a story? 😂
His biggest mistake was saying that he had no idea at the beginning of every question. He should have kept his mouth shut and made it seem like he was reasoning it out in his head. If the host asked, he should say, "I'm thinking about it," or some other excuse. Instead, he went from "I have no idea" to the right answer almost every time. He should have given vague responses like, "I know this somehow, I just need to think about it," or, "I've heard of this before but need a minute to recall."
His next big mistake was listing all the possible answers out loud every time. He should have picked one or two to say, and then did process of elimination based on whether or not he heard a cough.
And finally... he got greedy. If he had punched out at a lesser amount, the studio would not have been able to determine the pattern.
What impresses me is that the tech genius guy doing the coughs actually knew a hell of a lot! The problem is, Major was actually a stupid person, so even with cheating to help him he could not cheat intelligently and this gave him away. If two really intelligent people did this, the studio would have no idea. In fact, I'm sure some have gotten away with it.
So true. He has no clue but always “guesses” The right answer??
In fairness he had a Master's degree and passed a MENSA test showing he wasn't without a good deal of intelligence. Lacking common sense definitely.
Actually, there were a fair few questions the Major knew the answers to right away, and was only using the coughing for confirmation. He certainly wasn't stupid, but I would agree he lacked the intelligence required to know when enough was enough.
@@Benlu64intelligence and general knowledge and common sense are not always equivalent.
@@KJ-lb4tj I agree.
The fact that they're still denying in 2023 is remarkable
It's like Rosie Ruiz never admitting she cheated in the Boston Marathon, they just won't cop to it. Same with Pete Rose denying he bet on baseball, until he could profit off admitting he did it.
Did they lose the money?
Never admit to a lie!!
he won 4000 pounds alone 😂😂😂😂😂😂
It's that american mindset. Never admit a failure. Aside from toxifying everyone in the US towards possible wrong or failure... also made a culture where there totes will be a die-hard community saying he didn't cheat which they can exploit.
A man so unknowledgeable that he didn’t know that the famous Jaqueline Kennedy became Jackie O (for Onassis) and died with that name (and the funeral was aired live worldwide), could never have gotten to $1mil on his own.
I know right!!! I thought the answer is in the answer!
To watch in hindsight, this is hilarious! How childish to use coughing for cheating! We did that back in 5th grade when being asked questions up front by the teacher! Hahahahaha
Shouldn't cheat at all on any game show.The contestants should be fair just like the host and staff.
Not even coughing id be like “EKDKKS THREE ERGGH”
The coughs are so obvious, why didn't anyone puck that up????😅😅😅😅
I knowwww how cringing 😂😂😂🥴🥴
@@littleblackbabycatthey did pick it up lol did you watch this video!?!!?
He stupidly double-checked EVERY answer, causing the coughs to be far too frequent and noticeable. 🙄
He had to act so its not that obvious. The stupidity here came from the cougher as he didnt understand that dude has to act like he was contemplating.
Yes He Did
my man was quad checking that shit
Especially in the last few questions when it became painfully obvious
Should’ve stopped a few questions earlier, probably would’ve gotten away with it
His dress sense shows how dumb He is.
I love nostalgic television lol!!!! The clothes the camera quality …I miss being younger lol 😂
Same 😊
The fact that 3 of the same family members played here is suspicious enough
I gave a job interview… and we had technical questions. He read each question out loud and the only thing I thought of was this lmao
😭😭
😂😂
Lmao
Another interviewer on the panel coughing to give you the right answer haha
Sir...is that an ear piece 😂
Will never forget watching this on Easter Monday evening, followed by the actual episode straight after. This documentary was so frighteningly good but ouch, the greed.
What was weird watching this for the first time, I hadn't a clue the recording/airing was two days before 9/11. @4:50 in
Frightening, isn't it? I still feel for all those who lost their lives that day. @@PiercdDrummer
@SteffLoui88 hahahah frighteningly good LOL
Hahahahaha the greed LOL
Hahahaha not frightening has no relation LOL
@SteffLoui88 hahahah frighteningly good LOL
Hahahahaha the greed LOL
Hahahaha not frightening has no relation LOL
@PiercdDrummer Oh no had no idea. Yes truly a catastrophic event. My thoughts are for all those that lost their lives that day. And here you have these two with this deceitful nonsense.
Even the host noticed, they weren’t even careful about it 😂
His wife seems terrfying to me, something about her comes off as domineering.
The lady off Chicken Run 😂
@annahunter2192 😂😂 omg, that's spot on!! She's like the wife from Chicken Run!
🤣 such a snowflake comment , next what: her husband seems terrifying to me, something about him comes off as controlling or manipulative ??
She is Jewish ... So stop being ANTI-SEMITIC... NEXT TIME, KNOW who you are criticizing BEFORE criticizing ANYBODY
Both husband and wife’s actions and deceitful ploy point towards Narcissm Personality, Sociopathy Psychopathy, Most criminals have Antisocial Personality Disorder. Many people with the above personality disorders select partners/spouses with similar traits. People with the above personality disorders are unable NOT TO BE DOMINEERING, unable to create healthy relationships, unable to truly respect others.
So both husband AND wife would be domineering. If the wife was on stage he would be impatient and irritated just like her. People with these Personality Disorders lack emotional empathy.
Diana facial expressions are scarier then the scam itself holy fck
Yea I agree
@@roycepavich2441she's like a quizzy Lady Macbeth 😂
Probably peeved the person sat behind her asked her to take her pointy black hat off and put her broomstick away
It's the face of a narcissist.
She looks like a malignant version of The Wicked Witch of the West from the Wizard of Oz
The coughing confirms it, but he kind of told on himself as well. He was never confident in any of his answers, he would be adamant about having never heard of something then pick it anyway, and he needed confirmation on certain questions too often running through all the answers 3-4 times. He seemingly accidentally got the answer right for the duration of the show. Insane. 🚩
Exactly
Let’s also not forget Diana’s reaction after he “won”. She didn’t look at all thrilled. They were also overheard arguing in the dressing room afterwards.
Even during that phone call when they told him he’s not getting any money, he was surprisingly calm.
No way anyone would be that calm after being told you’re not getting a million
Greed surpassed stupidity. A Major Idiot et al, who was snapped! Karma...
Yup, as the production team said if he’d had quit after the Holbein question, they probably would’ve escaped with the money… too bad their greed got the best of them
They really didn't suspect a fellow show participant, so he might have gotten away with it, had he not been so greedy that they could suss out the pattern.
I can't believe that they were actually stupid enough to think this would work. Even in 2001 game shows were strictly monitored. And what's more amazing was no jail time for any of them. Unreal.
Well, to be fair, they didn't get any money. He legit won the first 2000, and the show flat-out admitted had he quit at 125,000, there wasn't enough evidence at that point and the show would've paid him. So he was punished enough. Greed, gets 'em every time.
It's a tv show jail time for that 🙄
Jail for fiddling a gameshow??...get a grip
In the US, they were checking back in the 60’s. Why wouldn’t everybody be checking by this time.
Yeah, jail for a game show. I don't think so. Jail should be reserved for violent, major drug offenses, or constant repeat offenders. Jails or over crowded already and do not rehabilitate.
His blabbering answers were so illogical and inappropriate. It's no wonder he drew suspicion.
I love how the host keeps mocking him with the "craig david" answer
His reaction to being told he’s been accused of being a cheat and told he won’t be allowed to cash the cheque is priceless. As if you’d respond like that 🤣
I can tell he was absolutely gobsmacked
I thought it was a British thing😅, assumed y’all took bad news gracefully.
Cheating or not, you’d expect a bigger reaction. My guess is the Major was a bit too reserved and a bit slow to react to incoming information. The amount of times he had to check that cough. They would’ve had more success if they had got the wife to do it. She seemed more on the ball. It’s probably what the fight was about. He had no sense of where the line could be drawn or how the show had been running long enough that the crew and production knew what a winner looked like and he didn’t fit. I wonder what their lives are like now…. Has England forgiven them? Are they still together?
@@joeyg448she has definitely went and got a new Rich man haha you can tell a mile off she’s money hungry and he was well put upto this hence her shouting afterwards
@@weepal4444 Hah. You’re probably right. Though, I think she understood they shouldn’t have pushed it as far as they did. I’d love to know what they were arguing about afterwards. My suspicion is that she was scolding him for going for the million because even though she was ‘money hungry’, she wasn’t a complete idiot. I think he got caught up in the moment and wanted not only the $ but the adulation and fuss of a $1 Mil win. I’ve tried to work out if they’re still together and it looks like they are. He did lose 3 toes in a ‘lawnmower accident’ which is hard to understand and happened about 9 years after his Millionaire appearance. They’ve also, it seems, branched out into insurance fraud.
That last question was so easy, can't believe it's a million dollar question.
Probably they didn't want to use their best questions since they were cheating
1) google was just starting a company when this aired, it wasnt a fun fact like it is today.
2) the questions touch many areas of knowledge (history the question before, biology earlier) and 99% of contestants dont have knowledge of all these areas..
3) tecwen wittock got lucky id say knowing all these questions. And he didnt know the hat question, normally a contestant would be out at that point!
The point being by the time youve gone through 15 questions most people are out.
@@ArtaxForeverhe also didn’t know the Craig David
@@paolo9038 the questions are selected randomly during the show
Its amazing that the dude helping knew all those answers! Thats unbelievable!!
lol I was thinking the same thing!
The fact the wife said to Chris "only 32.000" highlights how greedy they are.
Funny how he had a comfortably paying job in the British Army before he pulled this bullshit and then got booted out the Army, Major's got quite a bit of money according to my brother who was in the Army's Parachute regiment and was mates with a couple Majors, not this clown thankfully
It's not greed. Just cause someone wants to make alot of money doesn't make it greed. I guess whatever you tell yourself to make you feel like your salary actually leaves something for someone other then yourself. Like your kids
@@jacobhall8267 dude... when somebody says . JUST 32,000. Yes thats greed. You can say... 32,000 is a good deal of money but we were aiming for 6 figures. Today alot of people work paycheck to paycheck. And what you just said to that guy was fucking nasty. Why don't you set the right example for YOUR KIDS and apologize to him. That was incredibly disrespectful. Apologize to him RIGHT NOW
@@robogreek3157 it's not greed to shoot for the stars. It's ignorance to be jealous of someone wanting better.
@@jacobhall8267 so, it's OK to cheat on a game show with other contestants who want to play the game by the rules are around him? It's OK for his kids to be bullied to shit about the insane plan he pulled off on live TV?
Cant believe i just spent over an hour of my life watching this
But its so good
Your not alone :)
The wife cannot act!! Lol
I would've loved for the couples behind Diana to be interviewed. They knew what was going on most of the time and were so entertained by Diana's reactions
they were entertained by been on tv
The dramatic music every time they introduce another person 😂
The music is my favorite part
If he had got to 64k or even 125k then he'd have got away with it. Sadly greed was his undoing and the further he went the less believable it was
IKR?
They still would’ve been pretty damn rich
Greed truly is the undoing of many
Granted many might’ve been still suspicious, but doubt they would’ve had sufficient enough evidence
He could’ve even gone to 250k. He kind of already knew the Anthony Eden was a hat, the coughs were mostly unnecessary. But the last two were way too obvious. That’s what did him in.
Yes exactly that’s what I was thinking
Greedy
Lol what sadly, he did wrong and was bound to get caught
I love how when the producers said that they weren't getting the money and there was going to be a case, they were still extremely nice to each other. Lol
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@@POOPGOD999 1:11:37
I know 😂😂😂..
British people :D
The more white a society is the kinder it is.
Gives a whole new meaning to "Phone a Friend"...
Emmental is spelled like this, without h. The Emmental is the region, the cheese is called Emmentaler. Greetings from Switzerland 🇨🇭
Are you with Israel or Palestine?
@@jigsaw2253 Neither
FREE FREE FREE PALESTINE!@@jigsaw2253
@@jigsaw2253 dude shut up. no one wants your politics here.
Did anyone else cringe when his wife coughed and the guy behind her pit his head in his hands 😂😂😂
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@@Deex26252 25:38 he definitely knows what's up
It's funny watching the people behind his wife talking and laughing with each other like they know something is going on as well.
😂 thought the same thing
His wife's coughing at the Craig David question is faker than a kid faking being sick to get out of going to school lol like did anyone really think she was actually coughing?! Her dramatic chest clutch when she coughs is hilarious
they know there on tv, thats why
I think it's talked about in another video about this, but about halfway through this run, they show a clip of the couple behind her and they are mouthing something like "she's cheating." They knew, but I don't think they could do anything about it.
If this wasnt cheated i think it would be the best episode ever, someone seemingly guessing each answer and winning through dumb luck
He is not phone a friend. it's a cough, a friend. 😂😂
Where is Netflix when we need a movie? 😂
What's really a pity is that he did the whole thing in autopilot mode. He had good intuition on multiple questions, but he waited every time for multiple hints, as if three coughs were absolutely necessary to choose his answer. For sure at that moment he was really willing not to loose the money he had just earned, but by his attitude he was really not thinking by himself while having this cheating system as a hint, but clearly relying entirely on it. Every answering phase looked exactly the same and this was naturally suspicious.
Could also be a coincidence he read out the correct answer first by guessing. He still looked for confirmation by reading the rest of the options. Example, he guessed hat on question 14 but still wanted a cough to confirm
Honestly, he seems really thick. Like, clearly the dumbest of the three Ingrams, yet the one to try and take home the million. The way he got stuck on the Berlin answer, or kept saying "I've never heard of X", only to be forced to pick that answer made me laugh so hard.
Wait, I’m confused. I may be being thicker than a whale omelette but if the other guy was so smart why didn’t he take the seat instead?
@@Smashingblouse Have you watched it in full? Wife Diana and her brother Adrian had both already had their time on the show. We don't know if they attempted to cheat on the first day, but the coughing plan was very quickly put together overnight.
Tecwen Whittock might have been more clever, but he hadn't yet made it to the hot seat, and he wasn't related to the Ingrams - he was roped in. He wasn't the only help they had - Whittock got two answers by conferring with another contestant, and Diana helped on another question.
@@SonOfFurzehatt yeah sorry man, I hadn’t watched it till the end
He keeps on saying "I don't know" to everything and then gets all the answers right? That alone smells of rotten fish.
Did anyone notice that the program was shot the day before the 9/11 attack?
The wife reminds me of the aunt of Harry Potter; petunia Dursley 😂
Indeed 😂😂😂😂
@@sarahrean7174 right? I couldn’t stop smiling throughout the video 😂
The witch from the Wizard of Oz
Yes that nose 😂@@IWannatalkpodcast
He blantantly states each and every time he doesn't know what it is, has never heard of it and chooses it anyway?? Lmao...I mean, I know the coughing gave it away, but more than that--he gave himsef away by saying he's never heard of any of it in the first place. Worst tactic for cheating ever. I feel sorry for their children.
P
Wiki page on this creepy man: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Ingram
This is not the only fraud in which he has been involved......
Why ?
They just wanted to win money
@@hondamanvtec2894 so cheating is fine?
@@hondamanvtec2894 yea the illegal way
This doc pops into my recommended once every few months, and I watch it every time
Same here!
Yes! I think I’ve watched it like 3 times before already haha.
Currently wrapping up my second watch.
I just saw this for the first time. I'm about to play back that epic phone call at the end.
You guys have no life.
When he said “No” quicker than while the question was being asked was too funny 😂😂 the host knew something was up right then
The million pound question was so easy, Megatron is a character for the series transformers. gigabit is less that 100 zeros and nanomole he prefix nano implies small
Actually nano is small, but it could have been small with 100 zeroes after the decimal point, except it is nine. But you are on the right track. If the others have been numbers, they would have had 6 or nine zeroes, not 100. Also gigabit is not a number, but a unit. Likewise xxxmol is not a number but a unit. And Megatron is a transformer character, and if not it would have been 6 zeroes, not 100. It was easy, but that mayor had no clue, because he did not understand the prefixes nor whether they were numbers or not.
Your wife explains you as nano..lol..sorry,I couldn't resist
Yes its 2024 now. This show was from 2001. They didnt know megatron at that time.
@@GNZA_Jelly_Baby Transformers came out in 1984.
When they phoned and told him that the million would be frozen 🤣 His reaction was just hilarious. Oh good lord no. Alright thanks for letting me know.
Haha I know. I mean he does not even ask how he was supposed to be cheating lol
Too hilarious, he knew he got busted 😂😂😂
Serves him right. Cheats never prosper.
Hahahaa yep...guilty reaction...hes like ooops they caught us
My reaction to the phone call would have been: I'm sorry *cough* I can't *cough* *cough* hear you *cough*
This was absolutely fascinating to watch I almost didn't want to blink because I didn't want to miss anything. The amount of coughs at the end were absurd and his wifes frustrated facial expressions and muttering when she in knew they had gone too far was hilarious.
For Ingram it’s called WHO WANTS TO STEAL A MILLION????
That strange feeling when the Googol question is actually easier than some of the UK FIRST tier questions
not back then
@@wideawake3959 yes, back then, too. They had numbers in 2001, as well, and both nano, giga, and mega were well known numeric prefixes indicating 6 or 9 zeroes. . Google was quickly becoming the search engine of choice, and probably Google's name origin was fresher in the news back then than it is now.
It might be a Gigabit 😂
Agree
I feel sorry for their kids, that must have been so embarrassing for them at school.
Why are so many people dead set on cheating for a million dollars being so embarrassing? Lol
It's embarrassing maybe that the plan sucked but it doesn't come with an implication of being stupid or something. This is who wants to be a millionaire, not "Are you smarter than a 5th grader"...
@@fornhunklekids are merciless, they’ll have been picked on terribly. And fyi a million pounds, not dollars. We have our own currency in the UK.
I was worrying about them (their kids) the whole time watching this
@@fornhunkle That's a million pounds, not a million dollars. In the UK that would be tax free, but in the US your government would have stolen a quarter of that.God bless America, you live there, you bleed there, America is now more vampire country than Transylvania..
@adamsawaryn5634 Cheating and frauding is embarrassing and pathetic.
I'm surprised he even managed to get the faster finger correct 😂
Due to so much practices at his home , on a machine like fastest finger first
That's what I thought. ❤
it's literally the easiest question ever for anyone who knows basic grammar.
The beauty of television production is that just because the red light isn't on doesn't mean it's not recording. Every camera is recording all the time. What you see on the studio monitors is just a rough switch intended to be a guide for editors when they actually edit the episode.
It's used when on a live show, the red light on a camera has the live image
25:39 the guy sitting behind her knew what was going on right away LOL
Bahhhaaaa he did !!
25:30 The man sitting behind her reacts to her cough like “ She’s obviously coughing at the right answer 😂 does anyone else notice this?”
Some comments did yes, they were laughing too at how much of a fool Diana is 🤣
I noticed that too 😂 I thought he’s even into her
Good eye 👊🏼
hahahaha yeah even he looks like he's laughing at the absurdity of it
Maybe, but it is possible that he remembered something funny and immediately continued joking with his girlfriend.
He doesn't look like his attention is on Ingram's wife.
I just can't get over the fact that they had three little girls at the time and that the youngest would now be 27 years old. how this must have effected their childhoods...
No amount of money is worth jeopardizing the upbringing of your children!
Also, how strange knowing this all took place a day before 9/11...
The world is a weird place
@@lukamilas8648 to hell with the kids...I would have chanced the same scam🤪🤪🤪🤪
Yes, 3 daughters - all at a posh Private School which cost them £30,000 each a year. Hence several ?bogus Insurance claims
which were eventually denied and for which they were taken to Court. The two were living beyond their means and tried long
& hard to get on the show. Diana’s brother 1st then her : it was said she kept for herself the 32k she won - apart from a holiday,
then Charles. He came a cropper and was exposed for the greedy cheat that he was. The family suffered greatly for his actions
but they still went on telly for good & easy money. The scandal was considerable and even went worldwide.😊
? Why is it strange Debby. Life went on prior.
Lmaooo you really blow a gasket when you find out about onlynfans 😂😂😂
The Emmenthal question highlights one of the problems with the Millionaire format. Three of the answers, Switzerland, France, Netherlands, technically are ALL correct.
how did they not pick up the cough....I watched this episode when it aired and I caught that immediately
I thought this episode was never aired?!
I'm absolutely dying from secondhand embarrassment!
Especially when Charles Ingram is laughing........😂
@@youreshouldoflearntgrammer8277 He looks high.
@@LisaMaryificationhigh on greed 😂
Robin Williams would've been a good fit to play him in a movie.
I can actually see that… I would watch!
@@jordanwelch3832 Poor Robin Williams has been dead for ten years.
He is dead
@@gra4528 Correct. That's why I said "would've".
I thought the same.
The contestant that figured out he was cheating, should have started coughing at each possible answer and told the others to do the same. 😂 😂
Plus, they would have never split the money with the other guy and would have cheated him, as well. The other guy could not have reported them, without exposing himself also.
That would have been awesone
This wouldn’t have worked he was sitting in the complete opposite direction, so the difference in where the sound was coming from would be far too obvious.
Funny, but in reality, don't do this. You could make yourself a suspect!
Fascinating stuff! I was THRILLED when Ribert Brydges won. He was our neighbour at the time and you honestly could not meet a lovelier man. Very kind and genuine.
Imagine someone tried that cough tactic nowadays. Everyone would be looking at that guy like he bout to start covid all over again
😂😂😂
Not really since coughing was more predominant before covid. Every symptom for a basic cold is covid symptoms. It's a charade and man-made to justify a premeditated and made vaccine. People are beyond gullible and trustworthy of their satanic politicians who don't give a f about your livelihood. Get 666 booster shots and you'll be the Goat
Lol so true 😂🤣
He'd be asked to leave...then the contestant would be f**ked 😂
No one cares about covid anymore hahaha it’s over. Not even heard anyone mention it in ages. Idiotic comment
The person behind his wife instantly knew they were cheating when she coughed
Which one…
I noticed that too!
One of them started laughing
25:38
I thought that too... but no. They were just having fun acknowledging something. They would not of found cheating funny
He should've just quit at $64,000. He probably would have gotten away with it. To take it all the way to a million was just asking to get caught, considering it was obvious he didn't have much random knowledge.
£64,000 you mean
@RWL2012 Okay, smarty. Pounds or dollars, 64,000 is where he should've stopped.
Pounds or dollars - still it was a lot back then. For many people that would have been a life-changing amount of money.
Greed has been the downfall of many men.
Who doesn't know that Jackie Kennedy second husband was Aristotle Onassis?
Still a better love story than the other Charles and Diana
😂😂😂
Didn't think of that... Good point
That’s fucked up, I love it!
😁😁
🤣🤣🤣
I would have died of embarrassment so I would not have even tried. How these people can look at their friends and family in the eye is beyond me.
They tried to cheat a trivia game show, not hand over Jews to the Gestapo. I'm sure they got over it.
@@looker999997 omfg this took me out 😂😂
@@looker999997 I'm sure they got over it too because, like you, they are totally shameless.
I feel embarrassed just by watching this.
@@looker999997 lmfaooooo
The million dollar question was so easy. I learned that as a child.
One could say all the questions are easy …. if you know it. Lol
Just like none of these guys had ever heard of Coldplay or Craig David, and that to some should’ve been a £100 question as opposed to one worth £32,000 .
My son is 9. He knows this too, lol
Remember this was 2001... the reason we know the answer is because of google, which wasn't anywhere near as popular back then.
@@cmartin999 You must be young. Born 1999 maybe by your username.
@@folksurvival the 999 doesn't stand for 1999
*coughs* "NO" 🤣🤣
The people behind Ingram's wife knew there was something odd going on too. I'm so glad these people didn't win the money.
I know, i saw then react / whisper to each other
They really ought to have been interviewed too.
Her coughing at the Craig David question sounds faker than a kid trying to get out of going to school and the dramatic chest clutch for the camera when she does her fake coughing is hilarious 😂