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[millionairenut]

Unfortunately, episodes from Australian Millionaire before the Hot Seat format aren't as abundant on YouTube as they are with episodes from the U.S. and UK, but they do exist. I always get excited whenever I see new videos from the Australian version of the show and I tend to want to watch them when I see them uploaded.

Get a look at this from 2004. Eddie hears beeping and runs into a woman who happens to have a device on her that he tells her to shut it off right in the middle of a $125,000 question. How have I not heard about this before? I would think something like this would be one of the more memorable moments in the franchise, at least in the country.




It starts at 15:57 and goes until around 16:40. Obviously, I don't think this was intentional or the man knew her or that he was cheating. He obviously walked away and would've gone for an incorrect answer, but what do we think about this? How many of you have seen or known about this before? Honestly, I got scared for the man that he would be disqualified or that he'd be busted of some sort.

[exambolor]

That is very strange. Well I think there’s a reason now that they don’t allow people to take phones, even switched off into audience tapings. I had to do that when I went to a Hot Seat taping a few years bank

[RegisFan]

I’ve never seen that clip before. They could have edited out that moment, but I guess they left it in for transparency.

[dragon3989]

Quite a few odd stuff happened in aus. and I know eddie loves mentioning that incident as he has multiple times on hotseat aswell. I've even tried asking 9 themselves for archives but no response. And yea this was defenitly an odd one, aus almost never edited stuff out and just had way to many commerical breaks so it dosen't suprise me it made it in.