A day in the life of a Middle Manager...

*Cough* NO!

Who wants to cheat to be a millionaire? Major Charles Ingram that's who.

Having watched the documentary about the whole cheating thing on WWTBAM despite the fact that it was Martin Bashir who was doing the questioning I found it thoroughly fascinating.

Especially interesting was the way everyone seemed to have a 20-20 perfect recall of everything that night. I'm lucky if I can remember more than an hour ago unless I'm prompted! Also especially interesting was the phone call between the exec producer (I think -- see what I mean, fading already!) and Charles Ingram where the producer told him they were witholding the cheque because of 'irregularities' in the show. Essentially saying to Ingram 'you're a cheat and we know it.' Ingram didn't hardly respond at all. In fact he showed pretty much zero emotion, like he knew it was coming.

Anyway ;)

After the documentary they were showing the episode of WWTABM in question on ITV2 and the first advert before the show was for some cough syrup which I thought was particularly unsubtle... :)

During the first part of the show where Ingram is on his own he gets up to 4000 ukp and shows himself to be thoroughly unprepared, ill-read and not aware of the things that surround people in the UK day-to-day by having to use two of his lifelines. When he came back after the break (actually another show and another day but they'd edited it together) he had a remarkable transformation, suddenly knowing the answers to all sorts of difficult questions.

It was also obvious that the producers had enhanced the coughing from Whittock for the hard-of-thinking. Even better, during one of the questions you could hear a *cough* NO! *cough* which was hilarious.

See if you can answer the questions that Charles Ingram faced...

They definitely cheated is my not-so-humble opinion and how they can still be going around saying they didn't with a straight face is totally beyond me!

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