Beat the Chasers contestant takes jackpot with 20 seconds to spare

The chartered accountant from Essex faced off against Chasers Paul Sinha, Jenny Ryan, Anne Hegerty, Shaun Wallace and Mark Labbett on tonight's (Monday 4th January) episode.

Glennie-Soares started with 60 seconds on her clock to their 40, and managed to beat them with 20 seconds to spare, winning £50,000 much to the delight of host Bradley Walsh.

“I have always been really competitive. I watched Beat The Chasers with my partner and I thought, ‘I can do this’," she said following her win. "I always thought it would be good to go on but never really took it seriously. I thought it might be good to prove myself.

"You never actually expect to get on. When I did it was amazing and scary – a lot of feelings at the time.

"But I do love quizzing. Me and my partner always quiz each other on things. I thought, why not, it’ll be good fun."

Glennie-Soares also revealed how she prepared for the show, which, as it turns out, was by not preparing at all: “As soon as I knew I was going on, I couldn’t prep. Honestly, I was just too stressed about filling my brain with things I didn’t necessarily need to know. I just thought I’d go on and see what happens."

Of course, all the lockdown quizzing helped, as she admits, "in general I enjoy quizzing, so we’d done quite a lot. It helps you with fast-paced answering, which is good".

So good, that the accountant had a 20 seconds to spare by the time she beat the chasers. Not that she realised: "I didn’t look at the clocks. When it first started I was answering their questions in my head – I had to tell myself off to stop answering their questions. I knew something had happened at the end, but I couldn’t hear what was going on with the Chasers.

"In the end I had no idea. It was such a shock to me that I’d won. That’s why I was so emotional!"

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