BBC viewers are celebrating after Michael McIntyre’s The Wheel contestant, Gordon, scooped up a mammoth £31,000 for a worthy cause.

The game show, hosted by the titular comedian, has members of the public answer trivia questions with the support of the celebrity experts Josh Widdecombe, Chris Harris, Colin Jackson, Harriet Kemsley, Shirley Ballas, Frankie Bridge, Jordan North and William Hanson –

The father-of-two, 40, from Glasgow is a NHS portering manager who shared his heartfelt backstory on the show on Wednesday night.

As he told Michael, he has one daughter Bella, 10, who lives with cystic fibrosis and has always dreamed of visiting Japan.

His other youngest daughter, Ruby, sadly ‘passed away about two and a half years ago with a brain tumour’.

As a charity money-raising family

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