‘It’s really hard to believe’: Eddie McGuire reflects as Millionaire Hot Seat hits milestone of 2,500 episodes

‘It’s really hard to believe’: Eddie McGuire reflects as Millionaire Hot Seat hits milestone of 2,500 episodes

It’s been 24 years since Eddie McGuire first walked on the Who Wants To Be A Millionaire set.

Since 1999 each the unique Millionaire and Millionaire Hot Seat have racked up 4 $1 million winners, requested over 50,000 questions, and seen 2,400 contestants full.

On Monday January 30, 2023, Hot Seat celebrates one other milestone: It’s 2,five hundredth episode. It’s additionally it is fifteenth 12 months on air.

“It’s really hard to believe,” Hot Seat host Eddie McGuire says of the massive second.

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Eddie McGuire internet hosting Millionaire Hot Seat’s 2500th episode. (Nine)

“We’re approaching giving away over $90 million dollars across the Millionaire and Hot Seat. And every night we give ordinary Australians the chance to win $1 million dollars.”

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Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? was based mostly on the English sequence of the identical title, contestants deal with a sequence of multiple-choice inquiries to win massive money prizes.

When the present premiered in Australia, it was an instantaneous hit with viewers and have become a cultural phenomenon.

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Eddie McGuire in entrance of Australia’s well-known purple chair. (Nine)

The present was spun off to grow to be the Hot Seat sequence in 2009.

Hot Seat was designed to be a faster-paced format in comparison with the normal Millionaire, and that includes all six contestants all enjoying in a single recreation.

“For the 24th year, I still can’t wait to get into the action,” McGuire provides.

READ MORE: Can you ace this week’s Millionaire Hot Seat quiz?

Monday’s 2,500-episode occasion options college students Charlotte Bayes and Adam Lowes, in addition to Software Sales Manager Anthony Aspiridis, retired DJ Denise Thompson, Senior Project Manager Nick Price and Steph Bruno-Newton, who has spent months manifesting an enormous Hot Seat win.

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Millionaire Hot Seat’s 2500th episode. (Nine)

As at all times, all six gamers could have the possibility to play for $1 million.

Watch the two,five hundredth episode of Millionaire Hot Seat tonight 5.00pm on Nine and 9Now.

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Source: www.9.com.au