Who Wants to Be a Millionaire fans tuned in to a bit of a weird episode over the weekend.
The celebrity edition of the show saw Jools Holland, Nina Wadia and Ugo Monye feature in a bid to earn money for charity.
However, fans were left baffled after the music legend, 66, smashed through two lifelines within the first five questions.
On the fourth £500 question he was asked: “In March 2020, who began hosting online fitness workouts for children under the title ‘P.E. with Joe’?”
That’s when he opted to use the ‘ask the audience’ lifeline to correctly identify the fitness influencer’s name ‘Joe Wicks’.
Then with the £1,000 question, the pianist was asked what Alfred Hitchcock’s tagline from the infamous shower scene in Psycho is.
After using the ‘phone a friend’, he landed on: “Check in. Unpack. Relax. Take a shower.”
Jools Holland appeared on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire on Sunday night (ITV)
Attempting to settle in to the show, the music legend was finally asked a music question, this time about The Spice Girls.
“The maiden name of which Spice Girl was also the name of two US presidents?” host Jeremy Clarkson asked him.
Despite appearing in the SpiceWorld The Movie, he still seemed unsure.
The Grand Tour presenter then worked with him to reveal the answer, admitting that sitting in the chair often ‘turns your brain to mush’.
Fans were less than impressed over on social media as one tweeted: “What the hell is Jools Holland doing on Who Wants to be a Millionaire? Two lifelines to get to one grand?”
As usual, Jeremy Clarkson was hosting (ITV)
Someone else thought: “Jools Holland might be the worst contestant in Millionaire history. Two lifelines on the first 5 questions. His chosen charity must DESPISE him.”
Meanwhile, others will a little more sympathetic, as a third penned: “I love Jools Holland but frickin eck, if you have to call a friend to answer the question about what Psycho is about, Who wants to be a millionaire is not for you.”
“Jools Holland showing that he was the wrong choice for Celebrity Who wants to be a millionaire, sadly,” a fourth wrote.
“Not only has Jools been deceiving us for years with a ‘live’ Hootenanny, he also doesn’t know a lot about anything,” another joked.
As a sixth added: “Got nothing but respect for Jools Holland not knowing who Joe Wicks or Joe Swash are, but that Psycho phone a friend is a bit embarrassing.”
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Topics: Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, TV, Jeremy Clarkson
You’re sat under a load of bright lights, Jeremy Clarkson is questioning you and you’ve got money at stake – things are already feeling pretty tense.
But then you ring your wife and some random bloke answers the phone? Now that’s enough to send your head spinning.
This kind of scenario would obviously only happen on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? or in some weird interrogation nightmare, I guess.
And it’s what went down for this contestant after he used his Phone a Friend to get some help from his wife, leaving Clarkson stunned when a man answered.
Contestant JP Hogan called his partner while appearing on the ITV show back in 2020.
The science teacher from Lincoln had made some good headway so far but hit a brick wall when a confusing question could have bagged him £16,000 if answered correctly.
Clarkson asked: “Which of these days is part of the weekend in Germany?”
Hogan had four options to choose from: Donnerstag, Mittwoch, Sonntag, or Dienstag. (It was Sonntag, by the way).
And seeing as though he teaches science rather than languages, he was left pretty stumped.
But he had a lifeline: “My wife’s auntie has lived in Germany for over 50 years, my wife’s been there a few times.
“My wife, who at different times would probably have been in the audience, is at home as one of my Phone a Friends.”
Hogan’s wife didn’t answer at first (ITV)
Making the most of that, he called up other half Elizabeth in the hope she could assist him.
The dial tone started ringing out in the studio while Clarkson quickly asked if Hogan would like him to fill her in on how far he had gotten, but the pair quickly silenced themselves when they heard a male voice on th
After awkwardly listening to a few unintelligible words that a male voice uttered, the Top Gear star told the player: “That was a man who just answered your phone…
“Relax, relax! It could be completely innocent.”
The crowd, Clarkson and Hogan then waited with bated breath as they gave Elizabeth’s phone another try – only for her to innocently answer: “Hello?”
Well, that’s awkward (ITV)
She confirmed that she had some company after the host enquired.
One social media user said: “Break time question: who was the man that answered the phone when JP phoned his wife? #WhoWantsToBeAMillionaire.”
But someone else realised that there was actually quite an innocent explanation behind the Phone a Friend fiasco.
They explained: “The man answering was literally an automated voice saying ‘sorry there is no service’. Jeremy was JOKING about an affair.”
Others also speculated that when Elizabeth said someone was with her, she meant that someone from the show was supervising her to make sure she didn’t cheat and Google the answer for Hogan.
Luckily, the incident didn’t throw the contestant off his game, and he ended up leaving the show with £64,000
