The will of Eggheads star Chris Hughes has been revealed – including a very generous set of charity donations and a huge sum to his cousin
The will of Eggheads star Chris Hughes has been revealed – including a very generous set of charity donations.
The quizzing expert was a regular panellist on the BBC Two show, when he joined back in 2003. During his quiz career, Chris won Mastermind, International Mastermind and Brain of Britain.
He died in February last year. The show said in a statement at the time: “It is with immense sadness that we announce the passing of Eggheads great Chris Hughes. Chris joined the show in 2003 and over the next 20 years gave us not only brilliant answers but very many laughs and happy memories. He will be hugely missed by all his Eggheads family.”
It has now been revealed that Chris had a fortune of £199,997 and a net value of £195,385. The grant of probate shows that he gave £145,385 to his cousin Thelma Symons.
A number of charities also benefitted from his death, including £20,000 to Cancer Research UK and £10,000 each to the British Red Cross, Samaritans and Medecins Sans Frontieres, which provides medical humanitarian assistance to save lives and ease the suffering of people in crisis situations.
The show first aired on BBC One back in 2003, before moving to BBC Two in 2005 and eventually Channel 5 in 2021. The quiz show, hosted by Jeremy Vine, was still aired on Channel 5.
It hadn’t aired since April 2024 and in May, Jeremy admitted that he hadn’t filmed the quiz show for a year and feared that it had been cancelled. He said: “I haven’t heard anything about Eggheads for a while now.
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“I think I have done about 1200 shows – but whether we are doing any more I don’t know. We last filmed an episode over a year ago. It may well be we are doing it in 30 years’ time, who knows, but no immediate plans for any more.”
During his quizzing life, Chris also appeared on The Weakest Link, with host Anne Robinson describing him as “the best contestant we have had” on the show. Chris was ultimately voted out in the final elimination round without answering a single question incorrectly.
“I’m very disappointed to have fought my way through to the last three, never to have answered incorrectly, and then to be voted off because the other two daren’t face me in the final proves that in this country today, and the world, mediocrity is a rule,” he said.
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