Talk:Series 3 (UK)/@comment-173.63.57.220-20180421180209/@comment-9813371-20180421190630

Seems to be a myth. From the comments of this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5yyOSQotik

By Keith Burgess: "Hi Logie, really sorry to disappoint but I was never stripped of my winnings, I also never scammed any people yes I did come up with a scheme to help good quizzers get on the show for a cut of their winnings which was successful for 3 or 4 years. We used to have computers and other people in the room when the phone a friend question came through but nowhere at all in the rules did it say you had to be alone, in fact on many occasions I saw the show and you could hear other people in the background on a phone a friend question and those people never lost their winnings. I was never ever prosecuted or even investigated in fact I once contacted the Met and somewhere I have a letter from them saying that there is not and never was an investigation into the matter. In 2001 I appeared on the Irish franchise of the show and won again which would have been impossible if I had been stripped of any previous winnings. There are quite a few urban myths because of various websites that make the same claims that you have repeated but as I say they are wrong. "