Jeremy Clarkson throws shade at Millionaire cheat Charles Ingram with coughing dig

Who Wants to be a Millionaire? host Jeremy Clarkson has made a shameless coughing dig at gameshow cheat Charles Ingram.

The former Top Gear legend, 60, is holding a virtual YouTube pub quiz on car enthusiasts channel DriveTribe tonight, and invited fans to come and participate.

As he made the announcement, the presenter couldn't resist having a dig at infamous Millionaire cheat Ingram in his promo video, following the release of the ITV drama Quiz.

Ingram was found guilty of cheating his way to the £1million prize fund on the show back in 2001.

Current host ot the show Jeremy tweeted: "Greetings. At 7 o'clock this evening on the DriveTribe YouTube channel, I'm going to be hosting a pub quiz.

Jeremy said it's 'easy to cheat' on his virtual pub quiz (Twitter)

Charles Ingram was accused of cheating his way to to the top on Who wants to be a Millionaire back in 2001 (PA)

"It's rubbish and there's no prize money but it's very easy to cheat. You don't even have to cough," he quipped.

The outspoken presenter added" "So, see you then. What else are you going to be doing? Watching Channel 4 News?"

His hilarious joke comes as the ITV show aired earlier this week, and the three-part series proved to be a huge hit with eager viewers.

The host urged fans to come and join the quiz at 7pm (Twitter)

It saw the story of the dramatic "coughing scandal" where Charles, played by Matthew Macfadyen, and his wife Diana, played by Sian Clifford, bag the jackpot before losing it in spectacular fashion.

Back in 2001, contestants on the show had to answer 21 questions of increasing difficulty and increasing cash values - from £1 all the way to £1million.

But his celebrations were short-lived and just hours later he was accused of cheating.

Fast forward 18 months and he and his wife, Diana, had been convicted of procuring the execution of a valuable security by deception.

Matthew Macfadyen as Charles Ingram, Sian Clifford as Diana Ingram and Michael Sheen as Chris Tarrant in Quiz (ITV)

The Ingrams have always said they were innocent of any wrong doing, but they were found guilty and handed a suspended sentence.

They were each fined £15,000 and ordered to pay £10,000 towards prosecution costs, which was later increased to £65,000.

Instead of winning £1million, the Ingrams' cheating cost them a massive £115,000.

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