Quiz show contestant wins millionaire jackpot after four months and 87 consecutive shows
Friday, May 30, 2014 @ 9:42 AM
A CONTESTANT on a popular Spanish game show has won the 1.3-million-euro jackpot after spending four months on the show.
Paz Herrera, an unemployed architect from Torrelavega (Cantabria), has taken part in 87 consecutive editions of the quiz show Pasapalabra (which means 'pass', as in, 'don't know').
But this is not even her first time on the programme - serial game show contestant Paz already held the record for the highest prize on the Telecinco slot when she took home 62,400 euros last year after taking part in 54 back-to-back episodes.
Having won the Christmas 2013 edition of Pasapalabra - after being invited back on it when she won the jackpot weeks previously - Sra Herrera was given the chance to go back on the show on January 27 this year.
Tuesday night saw her answering all 25 of the tough questions in the 'quiz wheel' (pictured) and scooping up a prize of 1,310,000 euros.
Her long-standing presence on the programme meant ratings shot up for Telecinco, Spain's Channel 5.
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