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New Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? winner revealed

Politics teacher Donald Fear becomes Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?'s sixth UK champion.

Donald Fear has been revealed as the sixth UK winner of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?

The politics and history teacher from Telford breezed through his 15 questions in record time, in the process becoming the first contestant to take home the top prize in 14 years.

During a chat with host Jeremy Clarkson, Fear revealed that his brother Davyth Fear appeared on the show a year ago, winning an impressive £500,000.

"I said my aim was to get one step further than my brother did," he joked, "and when I found out how he did I was like 'ahh, maybe not'."

Fear sailed through the first eight questions, using his 50-50 lifeline to get him to the £32,000 mark before deciding to set his safety net at £64,000.

Remarkably, Fear instantly knew the answers to the next few questions, prompting Clarkson to brand him "the internet in a pink shirt".

Before the options even came up, Fear indicated that he knew the half a million pound question, correctly identifying James Callaghan as the only politician to have held all four great offices of state.

Fear was then presented with the million-pound question: "In 1718, which pirate died in battle off the coast of what is now North Carolina?"

"I taught piracy one year at a special unit," he replied, "and I'm pretty sure that Blackbeard died in 1718 off the coast of North Carolina."

Fear then correctly answered Blackbeard, confirming him as the winner and the first to do so with three lifelines still remaining.

"Absolutely incredible," he said after the confetti had rained. "How easy was that? Every question fell for me!"

The show is now taking applications for its next series, due to air later this year on ITV.

> The previous WWTBAM winners and their million-pound questions

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