The 1% Club contestant kept £99,000 win a secret from family for almost a year

A game show winner has revealed he managed to keep his massive £99,000 win a secret from his family for close to a year.

Daniel O’Halloran scooped the whopping prize on The 1% Club in July last year, but kept it to himself until it aired on ITV last week.

He told the Chester and District Standard that the only person he shared his exciting news with was his grandmother and that the rest of his family went "nuts" when they discovered he'd actually won the jackpot.

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The TV show, hosted by Lee Mack, starts with 100 hopefuls who get eliminated as they get questions wrong.

At the end the winner can choose to walk away with £10,000 or try another question in the hope of winning the huge jackpot.

O’Halloran, 24, said: "For the last nine months, my family had thought I’d taken the £10,000 because I wouldn’t have been able to keep a whole secret. On Saturday, we all watched it together and when I said I would take on the question they were just going nuts.

"It was just the best thing because it’s been difficult not telling them all."

The prize-winner, who is from the Wirral in north-west England, said he'd only told his grandmother and that it was their "little secret we shared together".

The 1% Club started this year and has been a big hit.

Viewers loved the latest instalment, tweeting that they were delighted for O'Halloran.

One posted: "Great show with a great host! Was thrilled for the young gentleman."

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"Was so pleased for him," said somebody else, while one tweeted that the win was "well deserved".

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