Who Wants to Be a Millionaire contestant left shocked after using Phone a Friend to call wife and man answers phone

Things are already feeling tight as you sit under a lot of bright lights, with money at stake, and are being questioned by Jeremy Clarkson.

However, when you call your wife, a stranger answers the phone? That alone is enough to make your head spin.

Of course, only on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? would such a situation occur. Or, I suppose, in some strange nightmare of inquiry.

And that’s what happened to this contestant after he asked his wife for assistance via his Phone a Friend, leaving Clarkson speechless when a man responded.

 

The Lincoln science teacher had made some progress, but he ran into a roadblock when he was asked a perplexing question that, if answered correctly, could have earned him £16,000.

“Which of these days is part of the weekend in Germany?” inquired Clarkson.

Donnerstag, Mittwoch, Sonntag, or Dienstag were Hogan’s four choices. (By the way, it was Sonntag).

He was also somewhat perplexed because it appears that he teaches science instead of languages.

He did, however, have a lifeline: “My wife has visited Germany a few times, and her aunt has lived there for more than 50 years.

“My wife, who at different times would probably have been in the audience, is at home as one of my Phone a Friends.”

 

He made the most of it by calling his other half, Elizabeth, in the hopes that she could help.

As soon as the studio’s dial tone began to ring, Clarkson asked Hogan if he would like him to update her on his progress. However, the two immediately fell silent upon hearing a male voice on the other end.

“That was a man who just answered your phone,” the Top Gear celebrity said to the gamer after they awkwardly listened to a male voice say a few incomprehensible phrases.

“Calm down, calm down! It might be entirely benign.

Then, while the audience, Clarkson, and Hogan anxiously awaited Elizabeth’s phone to ring again, she naively replied, “Hello?”

When the presenter asked if she had any company, she said that she did.

“Breaktime question: who was the man who answered the phone when JP called his wife?” posted one social media user. Who Wants to Become a Millionaire?

However, someone else realized that the Phone a Friend disaster actually had a very innocent explanation.

“I apologize, there is no service,” the man who answered said in an automated voice, they clarified. Jeremy was making a joke about having an affair.

Others conjectured that Elizabeth meant for someone from the show to be watching her to ensure she didn’t cheat and Google the answer for Hogan when she said someone was with her.

Luckily, the incident didn’t throw the contestant off his game, and he ended up leaving the show with £64,000.