A participant on Who Wants to Be A Millionaire? Jeremy Clarkson was shocked to discover that he had the most useful celebrity phone a buddy.
The legendary ITV gameshow returned last month for the first time since Clarkson’s Meghan Markle piece got him into trouble, and one participant has already brought two iconic gameshows together for an unexpected crossover.
Adrian made it all the way to the £64,000 question without relying on his famous buddy.
Clarkson inquired: ‘In the natural world, the term ‘nidification’ refers exclusively to the construction of what?
The plausible responses were webs, dams, reefs, or nests, but Adrian had no idea. Fortunately, he had a secret weapon in his famed partner.
Asking to phone a friend, Clarkson quipped: ‘David Attenborough?’
Adrian had the next best thing, but the Grand Tour host had no idea.
‘Sadly not, no,’ said Adrian. ‘Nearly as good, can I call Kevin please?’
When Clarkson asked what Kevin did, Adrian cautiously told him: ‘He’s one of the Eggheads.’
Adrian’s friend Kevin turned out to be Kevin Ashman, one of the world’s greatest quiz champions and the star of the BBC game show Eggheads, which pits teams of five quizzers against Britain’s best brainboxes, including the first ever winner of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?, Judith Kepple.
It wasn’t Kevin’s first rodeo on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? After Peter Kay and Paddy McGuinness contacted him for their phone-a-friend in 2008.
Fans watching were stunned, with X user Tom Brennan posting: ‘Watching Who wants to be a Millionaire and the guy rings Kevin off Eggheads as his phone a friend?? Surely that’s cheating or I need more knowledgeable friends.’
Another viewer, Matthew Fleet, joked: ‘If your going to phone a friend on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire make sure it’s Kevin from the Egg Heads’ (sic.)
Obviously, Kevin got the response very quickly, confirming it was nesting, and Adrian then left with a massive £125,000.
Who Wants To be A Millionaire? airs Sundays at 8pm on ITV.
Source My Celebrity Life.