Major ‘tense and unhappy’ after winning millionaire quiz

AN army major appeared “very tense” and unhappy minutes after winning the top prize on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?, a court heard yesterday.

At one point Charles Ingram who was subsequently accused of "cheating his way" to the seven-figure fortune with the help of an accomplice's strategic coughing even turned on a researcher who tried to lighten the atmosphere in his dressing room, it was claimed.

"He ... raised his arms up in the air and said 'don't start, I have got things to do. You don't understand'," claimed Eve Winstanley.

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