Sad news

Game Show Newsnet reports that Millionaire maven Ed Toutant has died after a long battle with cancer. He went through one of the stranger sagas of any game show contestant.

Mr. Toutant lost on Millionaire in January, 2001 due what turned out to be a bad question. After he found out how the query was wrong, he wrote to the show’s producers. They invited him back and he went all the way to the big prize in September, 2001. The show was running a special promotion at the time of his first episode. So the big prize was even bigger than usual: $1,860,000.

GSNN notes that Mr. Toutant was a trivia Hall of Famer. He was a regular player on various live shows, such as the Trivia Conference of North America. Before his Millionaire fame, he played on Jeopardy and The Challengers. GSNN says that Ed Toutant was one of the first people they interviewed, and the site recalls him fondly. R.I.P.