ITV Tipping Point: 'Luckiest ever' contestant wins £10,000 jackpot
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One lucky lady is celebrating after winning a £10,000 jackpot on ITV game show Tipping Point. Appearing on today's show, hosted by Ben Shephard, Tina from Oldbury sailed through to the final round with multiple correct answers to quiz questions - before being incredibly lucky with the giant slot machine in the final round dropping several counters.
Tina, a landlady, said she was "blown away" with her win and joked that winning was "almost as good as having all those babies of mine". Ben was equally as pleased for her and said: "You've been magical, well done you!"
Viewers were delighted with Tina's win. Twitter user Mike said: "£10,000! WELL DONE TINA!" whilst viewer Matt McGlynn said: "Tina has played an absolute blinder today on Tipping Point."
"Well done Tina! She seems live a lovely lady!" said another Twitter user, whilst Robert Mac said: "Love it when they're so grateful". "'That might be the luckiest contestant I've ever seen on a game show" added Twitter user The Proper KP.
Tina's place in the final seemed inevitable after she racked up more than £2,000 before her fellow competitors had even earned a penny. But her regular commentary was enough to make many viewers cringe, as reported by The Daily Star.
Whilst it's hard to fault her play in the game as she answered multiple questions correctly - and much quicker than her fellow competitors - she certainly made some viewers cringe with her pep talks.
Willing the Tipping Point machine to give her money, Tina frequently told the machine "come to mummy" - much to viewers' displeasure. One viewer of the show wrote on Twitter: "Come to Mummy #cringe #TippingPoint" whilst another said: "Wish Tina would stop with the commentary."
Tipping Point first aired on ITV in 2012 and in each episode, three contestants are asked a series of general knowledge questions. For each correct answer, the contestant is awarded a token for a giant slot machine, not unlike the two-penny machines you find in arcades and on seaside piers.
Contestants can choose when their tokens are dropped into the machine - but where the tokens fall is completely down to luck. If they fall in just the right spot, the token could potentially push other tokens over an edge, with each falling token representing money the contestant could win later in the show.
Tina beat her fellow contestants to a place in the final and was lucky enough to see more than a dozen tokens drop - as well as the all-important Jackpot token - representing the £10,000 maximum winnings, after she answered the final questions correctly too.
"That's more [money] than I've ever dreamed of," she said, before explaining that she's going to spend her winnings on a trip abroad and on her family.
