Yea friend of my ma’s was on it, got 32K, said Gay was a gentleman, he sent Gay the odd letter in the years after and got replys, he was an old fashioned man who prefered to send letters. He’s died since but I’d love to find the footage of it.
The best bit about this was some middle-aged woman who didn’t know the answer to a question, as in not a clue at all. And wouldn’t guess. There was a stalemate for about 20 minutes while she just had a look of pain on her face staring at the screen hoping the answer would come to her and everyone was wondering what the hell was going on.
Gay tried after a very awkward length of time to get her to make a decision, and she said “They told me I wouldn’t be put under time pressure to make a decision”, and then we all sat there and watched her be fucking useless for another 10 minutes or so.
I forgot about that. I wonder if I could pull up all the old episodes.
Did I completely imagine this or was there a version of The Weakest Link on TV3 as well?
They’re actually relaunching it this year it’ll be called
“Who wants to win a full tank of fuel”
And the questions were made unbelievably difficult because they couldn’t afford to give out a lot of prize money
Simon Delaney appeared on it and lost – but some jeweller stepped in and gave him £5k worth of engagement ring to propose with . Why?
IIRC it was cancelled because the computer got an answer wrong.
is there any more footage? id love to watch a few episodes!
Which got cancelled when Vodafone bought Eircell and they decided to pull the sponsorship that funded the prize money
There was a man on it at one stage, he was doing well. He had reached 250 grand and still had two lifelines left, but took the money because he wanted to give someone else a go. It was all very wholesome.
I remember a guy on who didn’t get past the first ‘jokey’ question for €100. Something to do with a rabbit.
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Fuck, I’m old.
Yea friend of my ma’s was on it, got 32K, said Gay was a gentleman, he sent Gay the odd letter in the years after and got replys, he was an old fashioned man who prefered to send letters. He’s died since but I’d love to find the footage of it.
The best bit about this was some middle-aged woman who didn’t know the answer to a question, as in not a clue at all. And wouldn’t guess. There was a stalemate for about 20 minutes while she just had a look of pain on her face staring at the screen hoping the answer would come to her and everyone was wondering what the hell was going on.
Gay tried after a very awkward length of time to get her to make a decision, and she said “They told me I wouldn’t be put under time pressure to make a decision”, and then we all sat there and watched her be fucking useless for another 10 minutes or so.
I forgot about that. I wonder if I could pull up all the old episodes.
Did I completely imagine this or was there a version of The Weakest Link on TV3 as well?
They’re actually relaunching it this year it’ll be called
“Who wants to win a full tank of fuel”
And the questions were made unbelievably difficult because they couldn’t afford to give out a lot of prize money
Simon Delaney appeared on it and lost – but some jeweller stepped in and gave him £5k worth of engagement ring to propose with . Why?
IIRC it was cancelled because the computer got an answer wrong.
is there any more footage? id love to watch a few episodes!
Which got cancelled when Vodafone bought Eircell and they decided to pull the sponsorship that funded the prize money
There was a man on it at one stage, he was doing well. He had reached 250 grand and still had two lifelines left, but took the money because he wanted to give someone else a go. It was all very wholesome.
I remember a guy on who didn’t get past the first ‘jokey’ question for €100. Something to do with a rabbit.
Edit: [looked it up](
https://millionaire.fandom.com/wiki/Patrick_Hoey) and he got knocked out at the fourth question and was the only contestant to win nothing
I heard they cancelled it because they didn’t actually have a million to give to a winner.
You learned today, some of us had to live through it