winner of the show was revealed as over the weekend as teacher Donald Fear, 57, who scooped the million-pound jackpot. When the game show was first aired two decades ago in 1998, £1million was an enormous top prize to be won.
But number-crunchers have worked out that the mega-jackpot isn't worth as much in 2020 as was when the show first aired, The Mirror reports.
Inflation of 2.8 per cent means Donald's six-figure payout is worth the equivalent of just £564,000 in 1998.Business expert Guy Shone, from Explain the Market, said: "When the show launched winning the top prize would have changed your life completely."People still think to themselves 'I will win Who Wants to Be a Millionaire and retire.'"But in actual fact unless you are near.
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