Roman Dubowski, a retired IT analyst, has become the seventh person to win the £1m jackpot on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?
Dubowski said winning the ITV game show was "unreal" and he now plans to buy a new house with his prize money and hope to travel.
The contestant and recent winner endured a tragic event just weeks before filming his episode of the show. Soon after he was picked for the ITV show, his mother passed away in November, with his episode scheduled to take place in December.
Dubowski recalled, "Should I carry on being on the show? And once the funeral ended, I thought, ‘No, let’s carry on. You can’t live in the past all the time’. She would have wanted me to do it. I think she would have been delighted and, of course, proud.”
Dubowski does quizzing as a hobby and competes in two local quiz leagues in his Manchester area. He credits his father for his thirst for knowledge, he said: "My father had this sort of Eastern European idea of, ‘You have to read books to get on’, which was nice. There was a well-thumbed version of the Hutchinson Encyclopedia in our family home.”
The million pound question was: "Used since 1876, which trademarked logo is described in the James Joyce novel 'Ulysses" and depicted in work by Maet and Picasso?" where he answered with the correct answer 'Bass Ale'.
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Dubowski is the seventh person to win the millionaire jackpot, other winners include Judith Keppel (2000), David Edwards (2001), Robert Brydges (2001), Pat Gibson (2004) and Ingram Wilcox (2006).
