Who Wants to Be a Millionaire contestant loses on final £1m question

It's one of the biggest losses in the show's history

On Sunday, May 25's episode, data analyst Nicholas Bennett smashed through the iconic quiz show format to find himself with a staggering £125,000 safety net on the £1 million question.

Playing down this life-changing occasion, the University of Cambridge alumnus had the opportunity to walk away with £500,000 if the question stumped him.

It was: 'Which of these words, each coined by a famous writer, was derived from the fairytale about three princes?'

'Pandemonium, Serendipity, Utopia, or Yahoo' were his four choices.

With two lifelines remaining, Nicholas used 'Ask Jeremy' and 'Phone A Friend' to no avail, yet he was bold enough to apply his "70%" certainty of the correct answer and risk losing £375k.

Nicholas ultimately went for 'Yahoo', which was wrong, as 'Serendipity' was in fact coined by Horace Walpole after reading the 1557 book The Three Princes of Serendip.

Shrugging off the calamity, the millionaire-that-never-was stunned Clarkson with his pretty blasé response.

"I still get £125,000," he said, as his family and friends whooped from their seats in the audience.

"What a reaction!" noted the presenter, who'd have been "sobbing on the floor" if the same thing had happened to him.

"Oh my giddy aunt. Is that the biggest loss in Millionaire history?" Clarkson went on to ponder. "I don't think I've ever had a contestant I've enjoyed more than you."

In other news, the Clarkson's Farm star was humbled in an episode of the newly-released fourth season of the Prime Video docuseries when his partner Lisa Hogan shared a brutal admission about their sex life on camera.

"Do you not know what a clitoris looks like? Have you never found one? You've never seen one? It's the start of the vagina, love," she quipped.