Host rips up cheque

This is a common practice that adds tension to the Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? game where, when a contestant locks in an answer on one, or more, of the last four questions the host asks the contestant to hand him over the contestant's previously won cheque, since they won't be needing it anymore, and rips it up and throws it onto the floor, before either presenting them with their new cheque or telling them they got it wrong. This has been popularised by Chris Tarrant, and other international hosts have done this.

However, in 2018, Jeremy Clarkson, by using the computer to transfer the money to the contestant's bank account, brought an end to this tradition in the UK.

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The polar opposite happened once in the UK when a contestant, Richard Deeley, screwed up his cheque for £32,000 believing he would win more money.