Eggheads star Chris Hughes dies aged 77

Quizzer Chris Hughes, prima of the fashionable BBC and Channel 5 bid Eggheads, has died aged 77, a connection connected the programme's societal media accounts has said.

Hughes was 1 of respective wide cognition experts who regularly appeared connected the show, which saw members of the nationalist instrumentality connected the 5 alleged "Eggheads".

A connection posted connected the show's Facebook and X accounts connected Thursday, reported by the Press Association quality agency, paid tribute to an "Eggheads great".

"It is with immense sadness that we denote the passing of Eggheads large Chris Hughes," it read.

"Chris joined the amusement successful 2003 and implicit the adjacent 20 years gave america not lone superb answers but precise galore laughs and blessed memories."

It concluded: "He volition beryllium hugely missed by each his Eggheads family."

Hughes was calved successful Middlesex and attended Enfield Grammar School.

Before becoming known arsenic 1 of the country's starring quizzers, helium worked arsenic a bid operator and railway worker.

He went connected to go a regular contributor connected Eggheads - which began connected BBC Two successful 2003 earlier moving to Channel 5 successful 2020.

The Eggheads sheet was made up of wide cognition experts, including winners from others shows specified arsenic Mastermind, The Weakest Link and Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?.

In each episode, 5 Eggheads would vie with a squad made up of 5 members of the public, who would play individually against a azygous Egghead successful each round, earlier a last face-off betwixt the remaining players of some sides.

If the amateurs were successful, they would instrumentality location a currency prize. The jackpot would summation by £1,000 per episode, with each edition's prize wealth rolling into the adjacent time if the Eggheads won.

As a effect of the Eggheads precocious level of expertise, galore of the jackpots would scope a sizeable sum earlier yet being won. The highest ever jackpot reached £75,000, which was won by a squad successful 2007.

The bid was presented by quality presenter Dermot Murnaghan, earlier Radio 2 DJ and Channel 5 speech amusement big Jeremy Vine took implicit the role.

Hughes is 1 of lone 7 radical to person won some Brain of Britain and Mastermind, and besides scored a triumph connected International Mastermind.

After having reached the last of different deed quiz show, The Weakest Link, without getting a azygous question wrong, big Anne Robinson declared Hughes to beryllium "the champion contestant we person had connected the Weakest Link" and chose not to usage her mean spirited signature catchphrase: "you are the Weakest Link, goodbye!".