EXCLUSIVEWho wants to be a millionaire? Not me! Sixth contestant to 勝利，勝つ £1m jackpot on ITV 質問（する） show gives away his fortune and is spending his 退職 playing 卓球, snooker... and taking part in 地元の pub quizzes
One of the only 勝利者s of the 十分な seven-人物／姿／数字 jackpot prize in Who Wants to Be a Millionaire's 25 year history has 静かに given away his fortune, we can 明らかにする／漏らす.
Donald 恐れる, 61, became only the sixth contestant to 勝利，勝つ the big prize on the hugely popular ITV 質問（する） show in 2020.
But he only kept a fraction of his winnings - enough to 基金 a modest 退職 - and gave away £700,000 of his million-続けざまに猛撃する windfall to family and friends.
And Mr 恐れる even forgot to buy his wife anything at all from his winnings - except a £30 pair of walking boots.
He told MailOnline: 'Giving the money away was the best thing that happened.'
Donald 恐れる (left), 61, became only the sixth contestant to 勝利，勝つ the big prize on the hugely popular ITV 質問（する） show in 2020
The former history and politics teacher enjoys playing 卓球 and snooker in his spare time
And incredibly he only went on the show after his brother won the penultimate 行う／開催する／段階 the year before on the show: Davyth 恐れる took home £500,000 in 2019, a 勝利，勝つ that 奮起させるd Donald to 適用する too - only to go one better.
Former history and politics teacher Mr 恐れる now spends his days playing 卓球 and snooker 同様に as competing in two 地元の pub quizzes a week and looking after his beloved grandchildren.
He remains the only British contestant to have won using just one lifeline - the 50:50.
He is also the only player who 征服する／打ち勝つd the 質問（する） show with Jeremy Clarkson as host, with Judith Keppel, David Edwards, Robert Brydges, Pat Gibson and Ingram Wilcox all taking home the million 続けざまに猛撃するs while Chris Tarrant was 現在のing. Former Army Major Charles Ingram also won but was later 設立する to have cheated.
After his 勝利，勝つ he decided to keep just enough of the prize money to 許す him to retire from teaching after 33 years and 購入（する） a motorhome for him and his wife Debs, 60, to take on holidays.
Mr 恐れる and his wife, who have been married for 37 years, said they never thought about leaving their home in the Shropshire countryside which they bought for £47,000 支援する in 1993.
Mr 恐れる gave £110,000 to each of his four children and divided a その上の £160,000 between his parents, his brother, his two sisters 同様に as his wife's mother and two siblings.
Mrs 恐れる, a former teacher and nurse who retired last year, jokes that she was only ever 扱う／治療するd to a £30 pair of boots - and even paid for the couple's new kitchen with her own money.
Speaking と一緒に his wife at their home in the sleepy Shropshire hamlet of Admanston, Mr 恐れる told MailOnline: 'The 勝利，勝つ will have its knock on 遺産／遺物 for a couple of 世代s to come hopefully.'
Mrs 恐れる, 追加するd: 'It hasn't really been life-changing as people would think because he decided to help the family so much which was lovely… I think we've got やめる simple tastes really. We don't go for big flashy things.
He remains the only British contestant to have won using just one lifeline - the 50:50
Mr 恐れる and his wife (pictured), who have been married for 37 years, said they never thought about leaving their home in the Shropshire countryside which they bought for £47,000 支援する in 1993
'That was the nice thing - that everyone benefitted. I don't think I could have been happy if we had lots and lots of money and members of our family didn't. We all benefitted.
'The other thing that was nice was people were genuinely pleased for us and were 説 it couldn't have happened to nicer people. And that was just lovely to hear that from lots of people.'
Mr 恐れる, who was born in Bristol before moving to むちの跡s and then Shropshire, continued: 'It struck me afterwards that the one person that didn't get anything was [my wife] because it just didn't occur to me! As far as I was 関心d it was our money.
His wife, whom he married on August 8 1987, joked: 'I think you bought me a pair of boots! £30 boots I got!'
Mr 恐れる replied: 'You'd think I'd have got you a car or something… I'm very lucky not to be 離婚d as a result of that I think.'
The couple have, however, enjoyed trips to フラン and Spain in their £53,000 モーター home, which proudly sits in their driveway. After Mr 恐れる won the show, they celebrated by taking the caravan 負かす／撃墜する to Whitley Bay, North Tyneside.
His wife joked: 'It was already 調書をとる／予約するd anyway!'
反映するing on life after teaching, he 追加するd: 'I love 退職, I can waste time for England me. I've joined the Rotary Club, I play league 卓球, I play snooker a couple of times a week, I do a couple pubs quizzes, it's an amazing social life, it's 広大な／多数の／重要な. And of course, the g randchildren have all come along since.'
The 恐れるs have also been …に出席するing Slimming World at their 地元の community centre - but Mr 恐れる 自白するd that he's 'giving up because it's a waste of time!'.
The father-of-four won Who Wants to Be a Millionaire in July 2020 with no audience 予定 to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Mr 恐れる, who is retired, plays league 卓球 同様に as snooker and is part of a Rotary Club
The couple have, however, enjoyed trips to フラン and Spain in their £53,000 モーター home, which proudly sits in their driveway. After Mr 恐れる won the show, they celebrated by taking the caravan 負かす／撃墜する to Whitley Bay, North Tyneside
The final question he answered 正確に was: 'In 1718, which 著作権侵害者 died in 戦う／戦い off the coast of what is now North Carolina?' He said he knew the answer ? Blackbeard ? before the 選択s even （機の）カム up because he taught it to his pupils at the Wakeman School in Shrewsbury, which he worked at before joining Haberdashers' Adams Grammar School in Newport.
He had to keep his 勝利，勝つ a secret until the show was 空気／公表するd on ITV two months later. Mr 恐れる, who would go on to retire in December that year, 発表するd to the school 議会 that they should all watch ITV at 8pm that night.
After his secret was finally let out to the world, 隣人s of the couple （機の）カム and congratulated them outside their home.
Mrs 恐れる 解任するd: 'I remember the night it was shown on TV at the end all the 隣人s （機の）カム out and they were all standing outside clapping. And they said 'Oh I 推定する／予想する you're going to be moving now'.'
'And it never even entered our 長，率いるs to move house. We like this area.'
'やめる honestly there wasn't enough money left to move house,' Mr 恐れる 追加するd.
He continued: 'If you buy a million-続けざまに猛撃する mansion, what's left? Nothing left or you've got a big mortgage. I don't ーするつもりである to go into 退職 with a mortgage, no thank you. It took us long enough getting rid of the first one!'
Mr 恐れる had to wait four weeks for the million to land in his bank account after the show 空気／公表するd.
He 解任するd: 'I went to bed on the 決定的な night and took a last look at my bank account at about 11.30pm and there was £7,000 in it, something like that, all the money I was able to save over my entire 33-year career, I know pathetic!
Mr 恐れる had to wait four weeks for the million to land in his bank account after the show 空気／公表するd
The father-of-four won Who Wants to Be a Millionaire in July 2020 with no audience 予定 to the Covid-19 pandemic
'But then I woke up the next morning and it was £1milllion and the £7,000! That was やめる a feeling I have to say. I took a photograph of it because I knew I was going to be giving large sums away and so it wouldn't be there very long so I may 同様に enjoy the moment!'
Mr 恐れる, who was 述べるd at the time as 'one of the best contestants ever' by Clarkson, said he has made a number of home 改良s since winning - and he now 計画（する）s to 乗る，着手する on more trips with his wife in their 退職.
The couple 計画（する） to holiday to フラン and Italy in the caravan this summer and hope to travel その上の afield to India or South America in the 未来. Last February, they enjoyed a trip to Australia which they 主張する they would not have been able to do without the 勝利，勝つ.
Mr 恐れる, who continues to live a humble life, said the money has 許すd them to make home 改良s such as in their living room and their bedroom 同様に as spending £10,000 on a veranda in the garden.
'The major thing it bought me was 早期に 退職, so I was able to retire at 58 when I would have struggled to retire at 60, given that I'd always been in a poor 血まみれの infantry as a teacher,' he 追加するd.
'I was never 長，率いる of department, 井戸／弁護士席 I was 長，率いる of department of a one-man department which hardly counts! I was never 長，率いる of year or 副 長，率いる or anything like that so the salary of which my 年金 was based was going to be 公正に／かなり modest so retiring before 60 was just going to be a 麻薬を吸う dream.'
Mr 恐れる now competes in pub quizzes on Tuesdays and Thursdays at the Red Lion in Wellington and the Last Inn Newport.
'We don't always 勝利，勝つ and 率直に I'm the weakest member of our team!' Mr 恐れる 追加するd. 'There's a couple lads I teach in the team, one of them particular is an 絶対の genius. If he was going to go on Millionaire, he'd 勝利，勝つ it for sure.'
Although the pub 質問（する） 正規の／正選手s joke 'oh it's him again!', Mr 恐れる 述べるs himself as 'very much on the Z-名簿（に載せる）／表（にあげる） of celebrities'.
He 追加するd: 'For a couple of months I was 存在 recognised at places like Shrewsbury Market. But that didn't last long - no one knows who I am now!'
Mr 恐れる says it is 'wonderful' to have made such a 肯定的な 衝撃 on the lives of his family.
Mr 恐れる, who was 述べるd at the time as 'one of the best contestants ever' by Clarkson, said he has made a number of home 改良s since winning - and he now 計画（する）s to 乗る，着手する on more trips with his wife in their 退職
Mr 恐れる, who continues to live a humble life, said the money has 許すd them to make home 改良s such as in their living room and their bedroom 同様に as spending £10,000 on a veranda in the garden
'It's nice because the eldest and youngest daughters both used it for 所有物／資産／財産, middle daughter didn't need it for 所有物／資産／財産 but she was able to 始める，決める up a small 商売／仕事 instead,' he explained. 'That made her so much happier, she was working 最小限 行う 職業s for not very nice 雇用者s to be honest and she became her own boss.
'It's wonderful. Nothing compared to the 肯定的な 衝撃 they've had on me! I'm a much better person because of those people.'
Mrs 恐れる 追加するd: 'It's been nice. Unfortunately my father passed away at the time of the 勝利，勝つ and he never got to know because we had to keep it 静かな, so I think the money made such a difference to my mother because she did a lot to her house, it kept her busy, I think it helped her get over it.
'Every time I see her, she still 会談 about it how 感謝する she is and what a lovely thing you did. So it really has made a difference to people.
Mr 恐れる continued: 'やめる 率直に, it didn't occur to me not to do it - I'd already had a 名簿（に載せる）／表（にあげる） of people who was going to get what. It's just wonderful to have the 適切な時期 to do that 肉親，親類d of thing.'
The grandfather-of-four has around 60 to 70 per cent left of the £300,000 he ended up with - but it is all tied up in 投資s.
He joked: 'It's probably just 同様に, if it was just in a 経常収支 I'd be dipping into it for no 推論する／理由 at all. I'm not the most frugal of people, unlike my wife!
The most 最近の Who Wants to Be a Millionaire 勝利者 says that he has only watched his episode 支援する twice - but he is looking 今後 to telling his grandchildren that their grandfather was once on TV.
He also hopes that one day there might be a 再会 episode with the five other Who Wants to Be a Millionaire 勝利者s.
