A pair on the frontline of the NHS’s pandemic battle had been final night time celebrating a £500,000 windfall after triumphing on ITV’s new quiz present, Ant and Dec’s Limitless Win.
Midwife Kathryn and her husband Will, an intensive care physician, stored the viewers on the sting of their seats by risking the lack of £100,000 to reply their final query.
In one of the crucial tense TV moments in current reminiscence, the pair appropriately answered the query ‘July 2022 will mark what number of years since Jeff Bezos based Amazon?’ with only one lifeline remaining.

Jackpot! Midwife Kathryn and her husband Will received £500,000 in the course of the first episode of Ant and Dec’s Limitless Win on Saturday night time
They gave the correct reply – 28 – which Will stated he knew as a result of his sister was born in 1994, the identical yr that spouse Kathryn was born.
They instructed presenters Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly that the cash would imply they might purchase a house as a substitute of renting.
And it could not have been higher for ITV, with NHS heroes scooping a fortune on the primary night time of its new flagship Saturday night time present.
Interviewed firstly of their look, the couple – who need to preserve their surnames secret for the sake of their NHS jobs – stated they had been used to annoying conditions and having to react rapidly.

Tense instances! The pair appropriately answered the query ‘July 2022 will mark what number of years since Jeff Bezos based Amazon?’ with only one lifeline remaining

Covid heroes: Will and Kathryn labored on the frontline of the NHS’s pandemic battle
Kathryn stated: ‘In our jobs we cope with a variety of stress, however I am hoping that beneath the studio lights we’re capable of stay fairly calm. A limitless amount of cash is loopy to grasp.’
She added: ‘Individuals have been very busy in lockdown, Delivering many, many infants. I really feel like with this one [Limitless Win] we have got just a little bit extra time to assume.’
After cashing out, the emotional couple additionally stated they hoped to purchase a camper van for holidays. Will stated: ‘It should have all of the equipment.’

Smashed it! They gave the correct reply – 28 – which Will stated he knew as a result of his sister was born in 1994, the identical yr that spouse Kathryn was born
Talking after the present, Kathryn stated: ‘What are the probabilities that query [Jeff Bezos founding Amazon] would come up?’ Will agreed: ‘I do know, £500,000. That is a lot cash, Oh my phrase, oh my phrase.’ Earlier, the couple had been requested what number of particular person traces on a digital clock face could be used to indicate 10.30am. Guessing 19, their appropriate reply took them to win £100,000.
One other query requested what number of flags and sails there are on the Blue Peter ship emblem. Their reply of 5 was additionally appropriate.
The brand new quiz present, which is being hailed as one among ITV’s large Saturday night time choices, sees {couples} having to think about questions the place all of the solutions are numbers – with the promise of a limiteless prize fund.

Life altering: They instructed presenters Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly that the cash would imply they might purchase a house as a substitute of renting

Win, win! And it could not have been higher for ITV, with NHS heroes scooping a fortune on the primary night time of its new flagship Saturday night time present

Kathryn stated: ‘In our jobs we cope with a variety of stress, however I am hoping that beneath the studio lights we’re capable of stay fairly calm. A limitless amount of cash is loopy to grasp’
Originally of their look on the present, Kathryn and Will received sustained applause when Ant and Dec thanked them for his or her tireless work within the NHS in the course of the Covid disaster.
Forward of the primary episode, Ant and Declan joked their new gameshow may bankrupt ITV.
In what ITV say is ‘the largest prize ever conceived’ up for grabs, the five-part collection options an infinite cash ladder, with solely an accurate reply banking the money.

Limitless jackpot: Forward of the primary episode, Ant and Declan joked their new gameshow may bankrupt ITV
In the event that they push their luck too far, they’ll crash out of the sport and lose all of it.
Talking in regards to the limitless prize cash, Ant instructed The Mirror: ‘We did fear that we had been going to bankrupt ITV.’
The dynamic duo say they’ve fully reinvented the rule ebook when creating the gameshow and it’s not like some other on the tv.
Dec defined: ‘The wonderful thing about this present is that the questions cannot actually get tougher as a result of the reply to each query is a quantity, with a variety of TV reveals, the additional it goes on, the tougher it will get.
‘And I discover as a viewer, I am unable to play alongside any extra as a result of I haven’t got any concept, however the factor with Limitless Win is that the entire solutions are numbers, so you possibly can have a great stab at most of them. You may not get it precisely, however you would possibly keep within the recreation.’
Contestants have a restricted variety of lives which they will use in the event that they get a query fallacious.

Shock: In what ITV name ‘the largest prize ever conceived’ up for grabs, the five-part collection options an infinite cash ladder, with solely an accurate reply banking the money
Ant and Dec introduced their newest venture in September once they posted a picture to advertise the present.
They wrote: Informal pondering poses… poised to launch a prime secret, VERY particular one thing moderately quickly… Oh wait! We forgot to wash the whiteboard.
‘We must always most likely simply inform you now then!!
‘So, SO excited to be bringing you a ground-breaking, model new TV format, that includes the world’s first ever LIMITLESS jackpot and a cash ladder that by no means… ever… ends!
‘Ant & Dec’s Limitless Win is coming quickly to @itv and ITV Hub. Brace yourselves people!’
Ant & Dec’s Limitless Win begins on ITV on Saturday night time at 8.30pm.

Model new! Taking to their shared Instagram in September, they posted a picture to advertise the present