\n\t\t\t\t\tFour contestants beat The Governess to take home a record prize.\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Four contestants on The Chase won a record $141,000 yesterday.<\/p>\n
Nurse Helen-Mary McMeekan, 65 (Adelaide, South Australia); dog rescuer Ben Quinn, 39 (Byron Bay, NSW); World War I aficionado Murray Fraser, 49 (Yattalunga, NSW); and paralegal Monica Lenaz, 24 (Sydney, NSW) defeated Anne Hegerty, aka The Governess.<\/p>\n
The team entered the Final Chase with $41,000 before triggering the Mega Money Spinner at 13 steps. After racking up a total of 15 steps, the Spinner added $100,000 to their prize pool.<\/p>\n
After four pushbacks in the final minute of the show, they walked away with $141,000, toppling the previous recor of $129,000.<\/p>\n
But it pales in comparison to other TV wins including the following*:<\/p>\n
1) $2,000,000 \u2013 Simon and Jules,\u00a0The Hot House, 2004 (cash + prizes)
2) $1,066,000\u00a0 Jimmy & Tam\u00a0The Block\u00a02020
3) $1,016,000 \u2013 Andrew Skarbek,\u00a0Million Dollar Minute, 2015
4) $1,000,000 \u2013 Rob Fulton,\u00a0Who Wants to be a Millionaire?, 2005
5) $1,000,000\u00a0 \u2013 Martin Flood,\u00a0Who Wants to be a Millionaire?, 2005
6) $1,000,000\u00a0 \u2013 Edwin Daly,\u00a0Hot Seat\u00a02016
7) $1,000,000 \u2013 Trevor Butler,\u00a0Big Brother, 2004
8) $1,000,000 \u2013 Mark Sellar,\u00a0The Big Adventure, 2014
9) $935,000 \u2013 Darren and Deanne,\u00a0The Block, 2015
10) $932,577 \u2013 Yolanda Stopar,\u00a0Temptation, 2006
11) $857,655 \u2013 Tracey Korsten,\u00a0Temptation,\u00a02006
12) $836,000 \u2013 Greg Mathew,\u00a0Big Brother, 2005
13) $815,000 \u2013 William & Karlie\u00a0The Block\u00a0,2016
14) $810,000 \u2013 Josh & Charlotte\u00a0The Block,\u00a02015
15) $755,000 \u2013 Tim & Anastasia\u00a0The Block,\u00a02015
16) $755,000 -Dean & Shay\u00a0The Block,\u00a02015
17) $736,000 \u2013 Steve and Chantelle,\u00a0The Block,\u00a02014
18) $730,000\u00a0 \u2013 Tess & Luke\u00a0The Block,\u00a02019
19) $701,241 \u2013 Rob O\u2019Neill,\u00a0Temptation, 2005
20) $672,357 \u2013 Stephen Hall \u2013\u00a0Temptation, 2005
21) $665,000 \u2013 Ayden and Jess\u00a0The Block\u00a02015
22) $664,667 \u2013 Joanne Segeviano,\u00a0The Price is Right, 2005
23) $663,738 \u2013 Brigid O\u2019Connor,\u00a0Temptation, 2005
24) $660,000 \u2013 Julia & Sasha\u00a0The Block,\u00a02016
25) $645,000 \u2013 Hayden & Sara\u00a0The Block,\u00a02018
26) $640,000 \u2013 Luke & Ebony\u00a0The Block,\u00a02015
27) $638,068 \u2013 Sunil Badami,\u00a0Temptation, 2007
28) $606,000 \u2013 Brad and Lara,\u00a0The Block,\u00a02012
29) $603,002 \u2013 Blair Martin,\u00a0Temptation, 2007
30) $569,747 \u2013 Laurie Dennis,\u00a0The Price is Right, 2004<\/p>\n
* to be updated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four contestants beat The Governess to take home a record prize. Four contestants on The Chase won a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189083,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,134,427],"class_list":{"0":"post-189082","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}