Designer misses out on TV jackpot

Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen and his wife Jackie won £500,000 for charity

Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen got a second chance to win £1m on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? on Saturday - but decided not to answer the jackpot question.

The TV designer was invited back after producers admitted setting an ambiguous final question the first time around.

In their second shot at the £1m charity windfall, Llewelyn-Bowen and his wife Jackie were asked to identify the first man to travel into space twice.

But they decided not to gamble and took £500,000. The answer was Gus Grissom.

Llewelyn-Bowen said: "I'm not going to risk what we've got. I'm not looking at the answers, I'm looking at that which says we've got £500,000."

'Take the money'

His wife added: "We are so going to take the money and run." The prize will go to the Shooting Star Children's Hospice in south-west London.

The couple won a reprieve after they made it all the way to the final question in their original appearance before being asked: "Translated from the Latin, what is the motto of the United States?"

Llewelyn-Bowen replied: "It's In God We Trust." That is an official US motto, adopted on 30 July 1956, and appears on US currency - but is not a translation from Latin.

The show's answer was "One Out Of Many", another US motto, which is translated from the Latin "E Pluribus Unum". It has appeared on the country's Great Seal since 1782.

'Fair play'

A spokeswoman for production company Celador said producers were "not satisfied that the question they went out of the game on meets our usual high standards of fair game play".

The couple's appearance on the ITV1 show was watched by an average of 7.4 million people on Saturday, according to unofficial overnight figures.

It followed celebrity skating contest Dancing on Ice, which hit a new ratings peak of 9.8 million viewers.

Former Coronation Street actor Sean Wilson became the latest star to be voted off the show, losing the "skate-off" to Dame Kelly Holmes.