April 16, 2023 • 9 mins
Celebrating 2,500 episodes of Millionaire Hot Seat, Clairsy & Lisa grabbed Eddie McGuire for a chat about what it feels like to give someone a million dollars.
Plus, he has an idea for WA when it comes to the AFL in the future.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Millionaire hot Seat with Eddie Maguire's back tonight and it
is celebrating and this is monumental. Two thousand, five hundred
episodes is at three o'clock on Channel nine and nine
now and Eddie is joining us now.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Hello, Hello close, you always great to be with you,
welcome back after your holidays. You enjoy it.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Thanks Mateutly you understand o'clock sleep in sad day to
crab to Europe early.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
I was wow, I think it's fantastic. I had ten
days off in preparation to the two thousand and five hundred. Yeah,
you can get through the day from five o'clock start
or a four to thirty start, right the way through
to this afternoon for the Millionaire hot Seat. But thank
you guys here it's I'm believable. And you look at that.
We've given away sixty million dollars, only one million dollars,
(00:46):
and then the original millionaire we gave away another thirty
well up to over ninety million dollars. It's a it's
a big pay when you're looking at.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
It, it's a lot of money. And you know, we
know how fickle television it is. It really is an achievement.
Was there ever a time when you didn't think the
show would reach that many episodes?
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Well, probably when we started it because they wanted to
fill in in December. That was what it was in
there for three weeks. I've got the phoneus, can you
come in and do this? Yeah, no problem at all,
because we'd finished doing Millionaire Hot Set after I'd gone
to Sydney to work as the SEO for a couple
of years, and so we redid it in the strip format,
which is the TV talk for five days a week,
(01:24):
and here we are. That was back in two thousand
and nine. So there's been really it's been good fun.
And the main thing about it I think is that
people one they use it to start cocktail, are at home,
they crack out with a bottle of wine or get
a drink while they're cooking. And most importantly I think
is that what are grandkids and grandparents actually play together?
(01:46):
And because the four alternate events has come up, you
can have a guess. And I hear this all the
time that it's and we get a lot of kids
now coming on who come on and say, look, I'm
doing this because it was the thing that I did
with my grandfather or grandmother, and I'm denicating my appearance accordingly.
That's a lot of happiness about the chef.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
I love a show where you can play along at home.
I mean I wore down the couch bit during Sale
of the Century over the years.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
You know, we all from my buzzer.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Anyway, Absolutely, we both did.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
I cannot believe sixty one million dollars in that you've
given away Sam Human's all footy show salary.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
That is incredible.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
That's a hell of a lot of coin, exactly the
great man. He made a bit more for the nine
Network over the journey as well, and paid a lot
more in fines as it turned out. But you go
all the big man. I'd love to get anyone. He's
a well read man, Sam human Is. You only tell
me if he did come on in a celebrity edision
once and didn't exactly shit the world on fire.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Well, the thing is, and I always think I played
these shows at home on the couch, and I think,
you know, I'm not too bad, But I reckon if
I got in there and you know, the cameras everything's happening,
I would just free.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Does that? Do you find that as a complaint from
a lot of people. I just froze.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
It's just the reality. Yeah, every bloke, usually old and
white kids on there. The kids are all there in
the audience of the grand kids and they're kissing themselves,
laughing at their grandad who's not the smartest. He thought
he was fumbling around, you've never livered down and then
(03:26):
complaining about everything. And after the show and no, I
just got that dodgy question. Oh yeah, yeah, all the
lights were really bright. You have a cake for today?
You celebrate with a cake, because that's a hell of
a lot of candles, not a cake, but a little
bit of celebration tonight on the show. And you know,
hopefully when the first person who came on the show
on this incarnation in the hot set one twenty thousand dollars.
(03:49):
And we've had two winners of the million dollars, and
I think more importantly, there's been an enormous amount of people.
Thirty four have won the two hundred and fifty thousand.
Because you know, it doesn't necessarily mean you're going to
win a million dollars by bendness matest person. You've got
to be in the hot seat at the last question.
In all honesty. It's people who win sometimes, you know,
twenty thirty sers and they go and the amount postcards
(04:11):
we received, old fashioned postcards, and the likes from people
saying I did have that trip of a lifetime. I
did take my mother back to the village in Italy
that she left when she's a kid, et ceteracca. So
they're the good things that we love about it most good.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Fuck we do radio and you know, we understand Eddie
how lovely it is to give away great prizes, But
what's it like being in the room when you're giving
away a million dollars?
Speaker 2 (04:37):
It's unbelievable. It is absolutely sensationally. You see people's lives
completely change in front of us. And the last person
we had win was a guy called Anthony McManus who
thought his life was just about done. He was only
in his fifties. He was a child actor and never
quite cracked the big time, was working as a brister.
He and his partner were living above a shop basically,
(05:00):
and they thought that the moment had come and gone,
and they'd been the massive proponents of same sex marriage
during the referend and all that sort of stuff, and
they thought, well, that's it. That's about the last thing
we did. Suddenly they win, they buy an apartment, their
life changes, they go back to beings in his mind,
not a washed up old hackers, he said, but actually
(05:20):
a bit of a star and completely change the life.
And and to be honest, a very emotional seeing the journey.
It was even harder because he won't a million dollars,
couldn't tell anybody, and we didn't play for about six months.
He went and bought said apartment. In the cast I
had to bring up s Look, he's good for it
(05:44):
pretty much because if it doesn't go to ware, you
don't get your cash. And it was no one was
breaking for the ratings more than him and I.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Can scary six months.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
It was very funny, but no, they were a great guy,
great people coming on the show, and yeah, it's really
great fun. So you know, I hope you enjoy it.
Tonight two and a half thousand episode Jin, Well, we
can't let.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
You go without asking you. This is Nick Das going
to win the Brown last year.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Well, if they shut up today, yeah's fantastic. And I've
got you might have watched fretty Classified on Wednesday night.
I've got an idea for West Australia.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
What he got in.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Yeah, I've forgiven him to lock in the app from
the Grand Final. Yeah, what a low act that was. Seriously,
when you look back on it.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Are you forgiving it?
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Oh? Yeah? Yeah. This is all part of my plans
for Western Australia. I put the Maguire Churst on the
West and see what happened. I've got an idea for
what's australiay're not going to get. Does look like they're
going to be lining up for forgether and themselves Australia
and then I think it'll go. It'll go up to
New South Wales or Queensland. But I think we should
(06:57):
do something. I'll take it to you guys. I think
that we should look at State of Origin again as
a as a carnival pre season played out of the
Perth at that magnificent Optic stadium, and it might be
only once every three years or once every two years,
but build that into a festival of football as well.
And it was funny I went to the I went
(07:19):
to the nineteen eighty eight by Centennial Football Carnival in Adelaide,
which was sort of the you know, the inspiration for
this which was state of origin for the whole country,
and it was where a young indigenous player from from
Darwin set the world a light. His name was Michael
Long and everyone laughed at how skinny wasn't and would
anyone take him? And Kevin said, he said, yes, we will,
(07:39):
and that was the start of something quite significant in
our country, but particularly in our game of footae. So
a lot of good things come from these these types
of things. And I'd love to see Perth maybe get
a state of origin right around the country. Two divisions
at a festival of football. They're going to be a wonderful.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Patty Crips come back and be captain And sounds good, well.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Doesn't it doesn't It get and excited straight away?
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Yeah, that's all right. That's pretty classified this week.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
But tonight Millionaire Hot Seats two thousand, five hundred episodes,
three o'clock on Channel nine nine.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
Now, yeah, happy anniversary.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Hey you guys can ask you one question for the money? Yes,
a million dollars? All right, here we go. Now this
is an easy one. I couldn't believe this, this I
reckon this could have been for one hundred bucks, but
was for a million dollars. Commonly known by his nickname,
What was the full name of Banjo Patterson A. A.
Albert Burke, the Andrew Barton, c Adam Bofort or d
(08:35):
Adrian Banks. I'm going with a congratulations. You've both won
a thousand dollars. Andrew Barton, that was an easy one.
That's the way it came.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Grandad stumping my toes exactly than.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
My gosh, I put a bot more water in the O.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
Okay, thank you, thank god.
Millionaire hot Seat with Eddie Maguire's back tonight and it
is celebrating and this is monumental. Two thousand, five hundred
episodes is at three o'clock on Channel nine and nine
now and Eddie is joining us now.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Hello, Hello close, you always great to be with you,
welcome back after your holidays. You enjoy it.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Thanks Mateutly you understand o'clock sleep in sad day to
crab to Europe early.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
I was wow, I think it's fantastic. I had ten
days off in preparation to the two thousand and five hundred. Yeah,
you can get through the day from five o'clock start
or a four to thirty start, right the way through
to this afternoon for the Millionaire hot Seat. But thank
you guys here it's I'm believable. And you look at that.
We've given away sixty million dollars, only one million dollars,
(00:46):
and then the original millionaire we gave away another thirty
well up to over ninety million dollars. It's a it's
a big pay when you're looking at.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
It, it's a lot of money. And you know, we
know how fickle television it is. It really is an achievement.
Was there ever a time when you didn't think the
show would reach that many episodes?
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Well, probably when we started it because they wanted to
fill in in December. That was what it was in
there for three weeks. I've got the phoneus, can you
come in and do this? Yeah, no problem at all,
because we'd finished doing Millionaire Hot Set after I'd gone
to Sydney to work as the SEO for a couple
of years, and so we redid it in the strip format,
which is the TV talk for five days a week,
(01:24):
and here we are. That was back in two thousand
and nine. So there's been really it's been good fun.
And the main thing about it I think is that
people one they use it to start cocktail, are at home,
they crack out with a bottle of wine or get
a drink while they're cooking. And most importantly I think
is that what are grandkids and grandparents actually play together?
(01:46):
And because the four alternate events has come up, you
can have a guess. And I hear this all the
time that it's and we get a lot of kids
now coming on who come on and say, look, I'm
doing this because it was the thing that I did
with my grandfather or grandmother, and I'm denicating my appearance accordingly.
That's a lot of happiness about the chef.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
I love a show where you can play along at home.
I mean I wore down the couch bit during Sale
of the Century over the years.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
You know, we all from my buzzer.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Anyway, Absolutely, we both did.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
I cannot believe sixty one million dollars in that you've
given away Sam Human's all footy show salary.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
That is incredible.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
That's a hell of a lot of coin, exactly the
great man. He made a bit more for the nine
Network over the journey as well, and paid a lot
more in fines as it turned out. But you go
all the big man. I'd love to get anyone. He's
a well read man, Sam human Is. You only tell
me if he did come on in a celebrity edision
once and didn't exactly shit the world on fire.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Well, the thing is, and I always think I played
these shows at home on the couch, and I think,
you know, I'm not too bad, But I reckon if
I got in there and you know, the cameras everything's happening,
I would just free.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Does that? Do you find that as a complaint from
a lot of people. I just froze.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
It's just the reality. Yeah, every bloke, usually old and
white kids on there. The kids are all there in
the audience of the grand kids and they're kissing themselves,
laughing at their grandad who's not the smartest. He thought
he was fumbling around, you've never livered down and then
(03:26):
complaining about everything. And after the show and no, I
just got that dodgy question. Oh yeah, yeah, all the
lights were really bright. You have a cake for today?
You celebrate with a cake, because that's a hell of
a lot of candles, not a cake, but a little
bit of celebration tonight on the show. And you know,
hopefully when the first person who came on the show
on this incarnation in the hot set one twenty thousand dollars.
(03:49):
And we've had two winners of the million dollars, and
I think more importantly, there's been an enormous amount of people.
Thirty four have won the two hundred and fifty thousand.
Because you know, it doesn't necessarily mean you're going to
win a million dollars by bendness matest person. You've got
to be in the hot seat at the last question.
In all honesty. It's people who win sometimes, you know,
twenty thirty sers and they go and the amount postcards
(04:11):
we received, old fashioned postcards, and the likes from people
saying I did have that trip of a lifetime. I
did take my mother back to the village in Italy
that she left when she's a kid, et ceteracca. So
they're the good things that we love about it most good.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Fuck we do radio and you know, we understand Eddie
how lovely it is to give away great prizes, But
what's it like being in the room when you're giving
away a million dollars?
Speaker 2 (04:37):
It's unbelievable. It is absolutely sensationally. You see people's lives
completely change in front of us. And the last person
we had win was a guy called Anthony McManus who
thought his life was just about done. He was only
in his fifties. He was a child actor and never
quite cracked the big time, was working as a brister.
He and his partner were living above a shop basically,
(05:00):
and they thought that the moment had come and gone,
and they'd been the massive proponents of same sex marriage
during the referend and all that sort of stuff, and
they thought, well, that's it. That's about the last thing
we did. Suddenly they win, they buy an apartment, their
life changes, they go back to beings in his mind,
not a washed up old hackers, he said, but actually
(05:20):
a bit of a star and completely change the life.
And and to be honest, a very emotional seeing the journey.
It was even harder because he won't a million dollars,
couldn't tell anybody, and we didn't play for about six months.
He went and bought said apartment. In the cast I
had to bring up s Look, he's good for it
(05:44):
pretty much because if it doesn't go to ware, you
don't get your cash. And it was no one was
breaking for the ratings more than him and I.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Can scary six months.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
It was very funny, but no, they were a great guy,
great people coming on the show, and yeah, it's really
great fun. So you know, I hope you enjoy it.
Tonight two and a half thousand episode Jin, Well, we
can't let.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
You go without asking you. This is Nick Das going
to win the Brown last year.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Well, if they shut up today, yeah's fantastic. And I've
got you might have watched fretty Classified on Wednesday night.
I've got an idea for West Australia.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
What he got in.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Yeah, I've forgiven him to lock in the app from
the Grand Final. Yeah, what a low act that was. Seriously,
when you look back on it.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Are you forgiving it?
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Oh? Yeah? Yeah. This is all part of my plans
for Western Australia. I put the Maguire Churst on the
West and see what happened. I've got an idea for
what's australiay're not going to get. Does look like they're
going to be lining up for forgether and themselves Australia
and then I think it'll go. It'll go up to
New South Wales or Queensland. But I think we should
(06:57):
do something. I'll take it to you guys. I think
that we should look at State of Origin again as
a as a carnival pre season played out of the
Perth at that magnificent Optic stadium, and it might be
only once every three years or once every two years,
but build that into a festival of football as well.
And it was funny I went to the I went
(07:19):
to the nineteen eighty eight by Centennial Football Carnival in Adelaide,
which was sort of the you know, the inspiration for
this which was state of origin for the whole country,
and it was where a young indigenous player from from
Darwin set the world a light. His name was Michael
Long and everyone laughed at how skinny wasn't and would
anyone take him? And Kevin said, he said, yes, we will,
(07:39):
and that was the start of something quite significant in
our country, but particularly in our game of footae. So
a lot of good things come from these these types
of things. And I'd love to see Perth maybe get
a state of origin right around the country. Two divisions
at a festival of football. They're going to be a wonderful.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Patty Crips come back and be captain And sounds good, well.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Doesn't it doesn't It get and excited straight away?
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Yeah, that's all right. That's pretty classified this week.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
But tonight Millionaire Hot Seats two thousand, five hundred episodes,
three o'clock on Channel nine nine.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
Now, yeah, happy anniversary.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Hey you guys can ask you one question for the money? Yes,
a million dollars? All right, here we go. Now this
is an easy one. I couldn't believe this, this I
reckon this could have been for one hundred bucks, but
was for a million dollars. Commonly known by his nickname,
What was the full name of Banjo Patterson A. A.
Albert Burke, the Andrew Barton, c Adam Bofort or d
(08:35):
Adrian Banks. I'm going with a congratulations. You've both won
a thousand dollars. Andrew Barton, that was an easy one.
That's the way it came.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Grandad stumping my toes exactly than.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
My gosh, I put a bot more water in the O.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
Okay, thank you, thank god.
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