Eddie McGuire has confirmed that Millionaire Hot Seat can be going into hiatus on the finish of January 2024.
The long-running host made the announcement on 3AW on Friday morning, thanking followers for his or her ongoing help and revealing one other present would quickly take its place.
“It’s with great pride and joy and also sadness that I announce this morning that Millionaire Hot Seat will go into hiatus at the end of January next year,” the host stated.
“We will finish off this year and there’ll be a replacement show at five ‘clock on the Nine network after we hit our 25th anniversary when we go into 2024.
“I’ve had the privilege of being in everyone’s lounge room for a very long time each night time at 5 o’clock and I really like the truth that so many individuals come and say, ‘I sit there with my grandparents and we did these items collectively’. It’s been an ideal privilege.”
McGuire additionally revealed some highlights of his time on Millionaire Hot Seat saying, “What I really like about it’s clearly multicultural. I’ve seen individuals who have come out of their sexuality on that present, and feeling actually free to take action and loving it.”
Recalling a memory of one particular contestant, he added: “I had one man who got here on through the international monetary disaster and he is wearing a go well with was a businessman.
“He won about $250,000 from memory. We walked out and I normally go and get changed and come on for another show, and this guy had the wobbles.
“I requested him, ‘Are you OK?’ and he stated, ‘You know, this was my final probability, I needed to promote my home tomorrow if I did not win something right here. This isn’t life altering. It’s life saving.”
McGuire concluded: “It modified my life, it modified lots of people’s lives. Thank you for all of your help.”
Michael Healy, Director of Television, said: “Long-term fan favorite Millionaire Hot Seat, and its predecessor, Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, have been elementary pillars in our Channel 9 schedule for twenty-four years and can proceed to be by 2023.
“For 2024 there can be a change, however for this yr we stay up for bringing extra triumphant tales to those that love the present and who play together with Eddie.
“For the previous two and a half a long time Eddie McGuire has made the present come to life, uncovered the good tales of our contestants, and has had the pleasure of handing over whole prize cash of greater than $90 million.
“We thank him for his commitment to the show over those years and for the shows still to come, and look forward to continuing our successful partnership with Eddie into the future.”
Since it premiered on April 20, 2009, Millionaire Hot Seat has turn out to be Australia’s longest operating quiz present and remained the one program on Australian tv the place it’s attainable to win $1 million.
Millionaire Hot Seat has modified numerous lives and given away over $40 million over its 11 yr run.
The present aired day by day at 5pm, and just lately celebrated its 2500th episode.
McGuire hosted Who Wants To Be A Millionaire because it premiered on Channel 9 in 18 April 1999.
In 2009 the present was spun-off to it is day by day incarnation referred to as Millionaire Hot Seat.
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In 2016, 67-year-old Edwin Daly turned the primary Australian contestant on the Hot Seat to win the highest prize of $1 million.
Antony McManus, a retail employee from Melbourne, turned the second particular person to win $1 million on a particular episode of Millionaire Hot Seat in 2021.
McManus stated on the time: “I know it’s a cliché, but winning Millionaire Hot Seat has absolutely changed my life. I thought I’d be renting forever but now I’ve bought a beautiful apartment and even paid cash for it!
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“Now I can cease worrying in regards to the future for my husband, Ron, and me. I’m so grateful that the celebrities aligned on the day. So a lot needed to go proper for me to win, and it did. It’s nonetheless laborious to consider.
“I’d like to thank Eddie McGuire and everyone at Nine who supported me and has been so lovely throughout this experience. I encourage everyone to give it a go and apply to be on the show. If it happened to me, it could happen to you too.”
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Source: www.9.com.au
