Who Wants To Be A Millionaire hopeful stumped by £1,000,000 question — could you have got it right?

Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? has already given us a £1m winner this year — but it was a different story when another contestant who was on course for the coveted jackpot fell at the final hurdle.

Sunday night’s edition of the ITV show saw contestant Andrew Fanko, 44, getting all the way to the £500,000 mark.

But his hopes to double the already life-changing sum of money were dashed when faced with a £1,000,000 question he was unable to answer.

Andrew was asked: ‘Which of these is an EGOT winner, meaning they have won each of the four major entertainment awards — an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony?’

The four options were Lin-Manuel Miranda, Cher, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Bette Midler.

Andrew, uncertain of the answer, chose to use his ‘Ask the Audience’ lifeline but the answer they gave left him no clearer, with £32% opting for Andrew Lloyd Webber and 36% saying Bette Midler.

Rather than risk it, he decided instead to bow out with the enormous sum of money he had already won.

‘I will very, very gratefully take my half a million pounds please which sounds unbelievable,’ he told host Jeremy Clarkson. ‘And that is my final answer.’

So what was the correct answer? Would going with the audience have won him the million?

Well no, actually. The correct answer was C, Andrew Lloyd Webber. The legendary composer has won six Tony Awards, three Grammy Awards and an Oscar for best original song, for You Must Love Me from the 1996 adaptation of Evita.

He achieved EGOT status in 2018 after scooping the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety Special (Live), for Jesus Christ Superstar Live In Concert.

While Bette Midler has Emmy, Grammy and Tony awards to her name she has yet to win an Oscar, despite being nominated for best actress twice.

Cher, meanwhile, has yet to win a Tony award, while Lin-Manuel Miranda has no Oscars in his trophy cabinet despite two previous nominations.

While Andrew may have bowed out without taking a guess – one which could have cost him £375,000 – viewers took to social media to suggest that the million pound question was pretty easy for that stage of the quiz.

‘That’s the second straight million pound question where I’ve personally known the answer,’ one person commented, while another added: ‘Knew that was Lloyd-Webber.’

Despite missing out on the top prize Andrew, who had hoped to win enough money to take his wife and six-year-old daughter to Disneyland, said he felt ‘incredibly privileged’ to be walking away with half a million.

‘It will make a huge difference to my family,’ he told ITV.

‘Once I saw the £1 million question, I knew I wasn’t going to play it. That actually made it a lovely moment just sitting there knowing I was going home with half a million pounds.’