The ‘Coughing Major’ WAS a cheat, says CHRIS TARRANT
First broadcast on ITV in 1998, Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? was a massive ratings hit. Today, however, the family game show is best remembered for the ‘Coughing Major’, a showbusiness scandal that caught the public imagination like no other. In 2001, a serving British Army officer came within a whisker of cheating his … Read more