Jeremy Clarkson was left stunned on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire as a contestant lost £186,000, the second largest sum in the show's history. The presenter joked that tonight's episode should be called 'Who Wants To Win Nothing At All' after a series of poor performances.
Jen Essery Lillikakis, a product manager from Stratford, had been doing well, reaching the £250,000 question with the help of lifelines. However, on the £500,000 question about which object has travelled at over 260 miles per hour during a competitive game, she used her final lifeline but her father didn't know the answer. Despite Clarkson's warning that she would lose £186,000 if wrong, she guessed 'ice hockey puck' instead of the correct answer 'badminton shuttlecock'. The audience gasped as she lost the money, but she walked away with £64,000.
Earlier in the show, contestant Arunan Jeyakumar, a clinical researcher from Newbury Park, struggled badly. He needed help from Clarkson on a £500 question about a ballcock, and used the audience for a £1,000 question on the allium family. He guessed 'Wannabe' as the Spice Girls' debut single after a 50-50 lifeline, but then incorrectly answered that Sofia is not a capital city. He left with just £1,000, prompting Clarkson to bluntly tell him: 'I think the basic problem is you don't know very many things. This maybe was the wrong show for you to be on.'
