Education
She took A-levels at Street Mary"s School, Wantage, and completed a secretarial course, and married her first husband Desmond Corcoran, an art dealer.
She took A-levels at Street Mary"s School, Wantage, and completed a secretarial course, and married her first husband Desmond Corcoran, an art dealer.
In the United Kingdom. She also has appeared on the British Broadcasting Corporation Two quiz show Eggheads since 2003. At the time, she was a garden designer living in Fulham with severe monetary issues.
Nonetheless, she had spent about 100 pounds phoning the quiz show more than 50 times to secure a place.
British Telecom rang me up and said, "Do you realise your telephone bills are rising?". However, the Independent Television Commission cleared Celador and Independent Television of the allegations.
She is also the only woman in the United Kingdom to have won it and also the first person to win a million or more on a British television game show. Keppel appeared on the 20 November 2000 episode of the United Kingdom edition of, becoming the 12th winner in the world and the first in the United Kingdom to win one million pounds. There was speculation at the time that the win was leaked to the press so that Independent Television would draw ratings away from British Broadcasting Corporation One which was showing the last episode of One Foot in the Grave in the same timeslot. Keppel"s victory was achieved exactly a year after the first Millionaire winner was broadcast, when John Carpenter became the first winner of the United States. version of the show as well as the first winner worldwide.
Keppel now appears on the British Broadcasting Corporation Two quiz show Eggheads, where she and four other quiz champions are pitted against members of the public.
