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Will Twigger

What happened to Quiz's Charles and Diana Ingram after Millionaire coughing scandal?

Quiz is the ITV show that has viewers tongue-wagging - it depicts the Who Wants To Be A Millionaire coughing scandal in 2001.

Charles and Diana Ingram - played in the show by Matthew MacFadyen and Sian Clifford respectively - had a crack at cheating the show by coughing on the right answer.

But what happened to them since the day they were found out 19 years ago?

First off, they were both found guilty of "procuring the execution of a valuable security by deception" - they received 18 month sentences, suspended for two years, and ordered to pay £15,000 each.

They are said to have been bankrupted four times (PA)

This was on top of the £115,000 legal fees stacked up during the trial.

They have both always maintained their innocence.

Charles soon got the boot from the army, where he was a Major.

They were found guilty of 'procuring the execution of a valuable security by deception' (Press Association)
They're played by Matthew MacFadyen and Sian Clifford (ITV)

"They lost their reputation," Quiz writer James Graham said, "The Major was kicked out of the army, they went bankrupt, I think - I think they've now been made bankrupt four times."

The Sun reported late last year that the couple declared bankruptcy for the fourth time, and the year before that Charles had been forced to put his £450,000 pad on the market.

Sian Clifford, who portrays Diana, told that things got pretty grisly for the couple.

She told Radio Times : "They were persecute and harassed by the press but also by the public, their pet animals were all attacked, their dog was killed, it's pretty gruesome.

"Their children were bullied so much they had to take them out of school."

The pair did a few stints of celeb reality shows during the noughties - most notably Wife Swap, during which Charles housed with Jade Goody and Diana with Jeff Brazier.

The couple appeared on Wife Swap (Channel 4)

Jade stated from the start that she reckoned she wasn't going to see eye to eye with Charles, declaring early on that she didn't like "liars or people with chips on their shoulders."

Still, despite a rocky start, their was a certain respect between the two.

Charles and Diana have also been on Hell's Kitchen, and The Weakest Link.

Now, they live in Bath, with Diana making and selling her own jewellery.

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