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British Yacht-TV participant, family father and headmaster Tim McCarthy died just a month after he had won the jackpot of £ 100,000 (about € 115 thousand) in the quiz program, says The sun.
According to the newspaper, he died in July at the age of 64 after a long illness. His wife Rachel McCarthy He revealed that the husband knew he had an incurable disease and that he had only a few months of life when he participated in a popular quiz program.
According to the newspaper, McCarthy concealed his illness while participating in the program because he feared that his involvement would be denied.
– She was so excited when she was selected for the program, even though she was very sick, the widow said in an interview BBCto
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Because of his contractual obligations, he could not reveal the outcome of the program to his loved ones, so he took the secret to the grave. Before publishing the episode, only his widow and their three children knew the victory, the BBC reported.
Thus, in the last week of McCarthy, friends gathered in the pub in the last week of August to watch the performance of his late friend on the quiz program. The related party was very surprised to see that their dead friend had won the jackpot of the program.
In the episode, McCarthy said that if the victory hit, he would spend the money to renovate home.
“Unfortunately, we did not have time to use the prize money because his health was weakened, and we could not be on vacation,” the widow said in the same interview.