Ian Woodley - TFI Friday

TFI Friday

On 24 December 1999, Woodley won £1,000,000 on Chris Evans' television series TFI Friday, during the Someone's Going to be a Millionaire section of the show. This section was designed to guarantee a winner of £1,000,000 on British television for the first time (Who Wants to be a Millionaire? did not have a £1,000,000 winner until Judith Keppel won on 20 November 2000).

Woodley won the prize by successfully answering the question "In the film American Pie, what was the pie made from - cherries or apples?" After winning the money, Evans asked Woodley if the money would change his life; Woodley responded that it would not, and he intended to remain unemployed. In actual fact he was employed by J.Sainsbury Charlton depot as a warehouse operative.ref>HR Dept J.Sainsbury plc

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