Melissa Lucashenko

So I think he had maybe applied for Millionaire Hot Seat.

I thought, oh, bugger it, I'll apply for it.

prison and, like, scrounging around and trying to ignore the bloody ice addicts up the road.

I get a phone call that said, do you want to go?

Oh, and my father had just died, too.

It was, like, literally a week after my father had died.

Do you want to go on Millionaire Hot Seat?

And I said, yep.

What do you remember?

Well, you've done an initial selection process in your home city and then, yeah, you get flown down, you meet the other people.

Do you have to say special subjects that you want to answer or anything?

You do in the paperwork, which was their downfall because...

I don't know how stupid you'd have to be to answer the question, honestly, where it says, what are your areas of weakness?

And it's like, oh, yeah, I'll tell you what I'm no good at and then you can ask me that for the last question.

I put, I think it must have been science because I have a reasonable, you know, general grasp of science and put literature or history or something for my area of strength.

But, yeah, I wasn't going to write down sport or something that I'm bad on.

Sure enough, the last question is what is the scientific evidence

measurement for light you know what's the name of that and there's the four options and i was staring at it and i didn't know the answer but my daughter was in the audience and she knew the answer you know she's all of 16 but she knew the answer and she reckoned she beamed it into my head still claims the credit for that what is the answer the answer is candela and uh so i said candela and walked out with a check for 50 grand that's just fantastic it was pretty good hey

Oh, yeah.

Yeah, it made a huge difference.