Custom Search
.Menu Biography ATV & Tiswas Capital Radio Present Career Personal Life Charity Work

Chris Tarrant congratulating a contestant

Chris Tarrant on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire
Present Career
"Is That Your Final Answer?"

Tarrant combined his radio day job with many TV projects of varying quality and success, including the early 90s ITV quiz show "Lose A Million", before he became the host of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? and re-established his credentials with a national audience.

Tarrant's catchphrases on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? include "Is that your final answer?" and "But we don't want to give you that!".

The show has helped to make him very wealthy, with a reported salary of £3.75 million plus share options, with both board game and computer versions
.
Tarrant presented a one-off show on BBC Radio 2 during Christmas 2005 and 2006 and appeared as a celebrity guest on ITV1's The Mint.

He is a Non-Executive Director of Celador Radio Broadcasting and an executive and associate of Sound TV. On 10 July 2006 Tarrant was awarded an honorary doctorate degree for his services to the entertainment industry, at Aston University in Birmingham.

At the end of 2006 he took an unusual career move in making a documentary about the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz.

Who Wants To Be A Millionaire Interactive on DVD
£16.99 view DVD


July 2008
Chris Tarrant joins Smooth Radio and begins his new show on 26th July between 10am till 1pm.
Chris Tarrant - Is That Your Final Answer?
Read on >
Personal Life
After working through the "suppression" of boarding school, Tarrant admitted to a high interest in his early 20's to women, drink and horseracing. At University he had a system under which he took half his grant...
Charity Work
Tarrant's charity work, for which he received an OBE in 2004 includes: being an ambassador for the homeless charity, Centrepoint; Trustee/Patron of The New School at West Heath for disadvantaged children (the school...
2007 Arrest
After working through the "suppression" of boarding school, Tarrant admitted to a high interest in his early 20's to women, drink and horseracing. At University he had a system under which he took half his grant...
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

eXTReMe Tracker