ITV viewers have been left baffled by a celebrity special of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?
The ITV quiz show Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?, fronted by host Jeremy Clarkson, saw one of its celebrity guests struggle and use up not one but two lifelines in the first five minutes of the hot seat.
The ITV celebrity special featured Jools Holland, Nina Wadia and Ugo Mony in the hot seat aiming to earn money for charities and climb the money leaderboard.
However music guru Jools Holland struggled to reach the £1,000 mark, calling in his ‘ask the audience’ and ‘phone a friend’ lifelines for his fourth and fifth questions.
For his fourth question, which would earn him £500, Jools was asked “In March 2020, who began hosting online fitness workouts for children under the title ‘P.E. with Joe’?”
Turning to the audience, they overwhelming replied that it was sports guru Joe Wicks rather than any of the other Joe choices, including former US president Joe Biden.
Jools’ next question asked him to draw on his film knowledge, when he was asked “Which of these is a tagline for the Hitchcock film ‘Psycho’?”
Calling a friend, Jools was pushed towards the right answer of “Check in. Unpack. Relax. Take a shower.”, which hints at the infamous shower scene from the classic movie.
Whilst Jools had used up two of his three lifelines in the first five questions, his cries for help had not gone unnoticed by viewers at home.
Taking to social media, one stunned viewer wrote on X: “He used two lifelines at that in the first five questions! Bloody hell. Even Joey bloody Essex knows more than Jools Holland!”
Another posted: “What the heck? Jools Holland used Phone A Friend on the Psycho question? JOOLS HOLLAND?!? I thought he was clever!”
“I genuinely thought Jools Holland would be much better than this,” added a third.
Another posted: “Wow. It’s a good job Jools can play the piano well because he’s bloody useless at this….”
“Oh Jools I thought you would do better, but I guess you either know it or you don’t,” shared another.
With another question asking Jools to draw on his music knowledge, he was quizzed about The Spice Girls.
He dithered, as one viewer pointed out on social media: “Jools Holland getting a Spice Girls question when he appeared in the movie Spiceworld.”
The music icon eventually bowed out at £16,000, which he dedicated to two charities, The Princes Trust & Caring Hands.
