Judith Keppel won a million 25 years ago - and it changed her life forever.
Now that I look back, 25 years on, 20th November 2000 really was the most astonishing day of my life. It also completely changed my life in every single way for the better, and I still feel I was blessed with the most extraordinary luck. From the first moment in 1998 when Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? first aired, it attracted vast audiences of up to 19 million viewers. Very soon I joined the throng and watched agog as people walked away with thousands of pounds for answering what I quite quickly realised were not very difficult questions. At the time I was feeling skint, having recently made some very stupid mistakes and began to think, ‘Why shouldn’t I have a go? £32,000 or £64,000 would solve a lot of problems.’ I read that thousands of people were applying for each show. So one day I settled down at...
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