A teacher whose brother previously won the \u00a3500,000 prize has gone one better to win the jackpot on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Donald Fear, 57, used just one 50\/50 lifeline to become the first \u00a31m winner in 14 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Brother Davyth, who teaches geography, appeared on the show in September last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mr Fear said his brother was his “hero and best friend”. “Other way around now,” said presenter Jeremy Clarkson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The history and politics teacher’s final question on Friday’s pre-recorded show was: “In 1718, which pirate died in battle off the coast of what is now North Carolina?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The options were Calico Jack, Blackbeard, Bartholomew Roberts, and Captain Kidd.
Mr Fear, who lives in Telford, said he had taught piracy to a group of Year 8 students about eight years ago, and remembered the date of 1718.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“I’m a dates man,” Mr Fear said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“You don’t be a history teacher for 33 years without knowing a few dates, and the date 1718 and Blackbeard leapt out at me instantly.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Clarkson expressed his amazement at the history teacher’s knowledge throughout his run of 15 correct answers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“It’s like sitting next to the internet in a pink shirt,” he said, describing him as “an encyclopaedia with a moustache”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mr Fear is the sixth million-pound winner in the show’s 22-year history.
After his win, the father of four celebrated by going on a caravan holiday along the Northumberland coast with his wife of 33 years, nurse Debs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And his elder brother Davyth has also been part of his celebrations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“He is so pleased for me,” said Mr Fear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“We went to spend a night in a hotel with our wives last week and got absolutely plastered and he kept poking me saying how pleased and how overjoyed he was by it.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mr Fear said he wanted to give at least 70% of his winnings to his family and spend the rest on a “comfortable retirement”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And that retirement is due to begin soon – since winning the jackpot, he has resigned from Haberdashers’ Adams Grammar school in Newport, Shropshire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But he said: “The rules are you have to go at the end of a term.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Actually, I never investigated the possibility of whether it would be possible not to go back at all – but how unfair to my A-level students that would be?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mr Fear added: “I was planning to go in two years anyway just before my 60th birthday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“As it is, I’m going just after my 58th.”
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