Nicholas Bennett, a data analyst from West Hampstead, London, has suffered one of the biggest losses in the show’s history after getting the £1m question wrong.

The UK show, presented by former Top Gear host Jeremy Clarkson, provides contestants with four lifelines: Phone a Friend, Ask the Audience, Ask Jeremy, and 50:50. The contestant was tasked with choosing between Pandemonium, Serendipity, Utopia, and Yahoo. Despite using two lifelines, Bennett chose Yahoo, which was revealed as incorrect.

Bennett would have had the option to walk away with £500,000 had he decided to throw the towel in. However, his decision to continue playing cost him £375,000. If he had got the answer correct, he would have won an additional £875,000 to his safety net of £125,000. Clarkson expressed his disappointment and apologized for the mistake, stating that the answer was serendipity, coined by Horace Walpole of The Three Princes of Serendip.

Only seven people have won the £1m jackpot on the popular show, which has been running since 1998. The show was originally presented by Chris Tarrant but was axed in 2014 after he announced his departure. It was then revived in 2018 and has been presented by Jeremy Clarkson since then.