Charles Ingram
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Charles Ingram with his wife Diana, four years after their fraud
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Charles William Ingram 6 August 1963 Shardlow, Derbyshire, England, UK |
| Occupation | Novelist and computer repairman |
| Known for | Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? cheating scandal |
| Spouse(s) | Diana Ingram (1989–present) |
| Children | Portia Rosie Hester |
Charles William Ingram (born 6 August 1963) is a former British Army major who made headlines worldwide after being convicted of cheating to win the one million pounds jackpot on the game show Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? in 2001. He was convicted on a single count of deception.
He is married to Diana Ingram (born 1965) and has since participated in other television shows, including Weakest Link (where he appeared with his wife Diana, lasting until the sixth round), Wife Swap (in which he swapped lives with Jade Goody's boyfriend) and Hell's Kitchen and controversially on Big Brother's Big Mouth.
Born in Shardlow, Derbyshire, Ingram attended to Oswestry School and obtained a BSc in civil engineering from Kingston Polytechnic, an MSc in corporate management from the Defence College of Management and Technology part of Cranfield University, chartered membership of the Institute of Personnel and Development, membership of the Chartered Management Institute, membership of the Association for Project Management, and membership of the Society of Authors. He joined Mensa in January 2003, three months before the court case. In 1986, he trained for the Army at Sandhurst and was commissioned as an officer in the Royal Engineers. He was promoted to the rank of captain in 1990 and major in 1995, and in 1999, he served in Bosnia for six months on NATO peacekeeping duties. He was forced to resign from the Army in August 2003, and give up his rank of major.
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