THE man who cheated his way to £1million pounds on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, can't believe how accurate the TV drama about his scandal is.

Charles Ingram took to Twitter after the first episode of Quiz aired on ITV on Monday to reveal how much the show got right.

The series premiere laid the groundwork about what lead to one of the biggest scandals in British TV history.

Many of the scenes were shot inside Charles and his wife, Diana's, family home.

Charles could not get over the attention to detail in Quiz even right down to the bed the couple slept in.

He wrote: "That’s our BED! How the heck did they find our bed?"

The former Army major also noticed other details on the show that were right on the money.

Charles wrote about their old car: "I loved that old Honda. Loaded and such a smooth ride. The attention to detail is unnerving."

He also described the most "cringeworthy" scene where actor Matthew Macfadyen who plays Charles, is forced to sing along with a higher ranking Army member who gets swept up in Major-General's Song from The Pirates of Penzance.

But the dad also revealed that his wife has also been very taken with show, particularly Matthew's performance.

He wrote: "Matthew is so damn good-looking I can’t sleep. Trying to kid myself I looked like that 19 years ago but failing miserably.

"Diana called me ‘Matthew’ as I was brushing my teeth."

The three-part series follows Charle and his wife before, during and after his infamous £1 million win on ITV quiz show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire in 2001, which was dogged by claims someone had coughed at the right answers to help him succeed.

While Charles was eventually convicted on a single count of procuring the execution of a valuable security by deception after a lengthy trial.

Actress Sian Clifford who plays Diana Ingram on Quiz insisted she didn’t make a judgement about whether the couple were involved in the coughing scandal or not when she took on the role.

Speaking at a screening of the series, she said: “You know it was a question that we tossed around every single day but I don’t know whether it’s important to answer that question because we don’t answer that question on the show.
“I think we do present something that’s very balanced. I think it’s more important to answer the question of whether or not they should have the criminal conviction.

“That’s something else I’m interested in the show examining. So I don’t sit on either side because I think it is impossible to answer.”

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