Sir Stephen Fry has spoken of his “delight” at winning £250,000 on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? following host Jeremy Clarkson helping him on one question during a celebrity version of the series. The ITV show, which was originally hosted by Chris Tarrant, introduced a lifeline called “ask the host” when it was revived in 2018 with Clarkson as the presenter. Former QI host, actor and comedian Sir Stephen also consulted with Pointless star and author Richard Osman on the £500,000 question, by using his phone a friend lifeline.
Clarkson called it the “biggest celebrity win since I started (on) this show”, and called it a “whopping win”, after Sir Stephen decided to walk way with £250,000. For the half-a-million-pound question, Sir Stephen was asked what the longest gap was between the original version and the cover version of a song, but quiz host Osman failed to help him. “I am delighted and I am not complaining at all,” Sir Stephen said.
“It was extremely good fun. The time goes so quickly.” Last time he was on the show, Sir Stephen won £125,000 for two charities when he appeared alongside TV cook Nigella Lawson in 2005.
On receiving help from host Clarkson for the question where he was asked which European city out of Brussels, Strasbourg, Munich and Luxembourg City would you come closest to if you walked a straight line from Paris to Berlin, Sir Stephen said: “Jeremy is very encouraging, and he was great with the question that took me to a qu.
