THE champion of Mastermind 2025 also won an incredible £500k on a rival quiz show – but do you remember him?
Viewers watched on as John Robinson became the BBC quiz’s latest victor.
The school teacher, from Sutton Coldfield, faced off against Claire Reynolds in a tense finish.
John emerged as the winner of series 52 with an impressive 30 points – while also correctly answering the last episode of the series.
Discussing his victory, he said: “I cannot quite believe that I have won the final of Mastermind.
“I’m not often lost for words, but I think this is one of those occasions where I don’t know what to say...I’m just delighted.”;;
Earlier in the show, John scored 12 points on specialist subject The Empire State Building.
In fact, he wore a New York skyscraper shirt as an homage to this subject.
It’s not the first time John has experienced success on a legendary game show.
He previously won an impressive £500,000 on back in 2019.
By question 14, John had used all of his lifelines and chose to take the money rather than risk.
He is only one of 11 contestants throughout the hit ITV game show to win £500,000.
As presenter handed over the Mastermind trophy, he acknowledged the contestant’s past game prowess.
Pointing to the coveted prize, Clive added; “Money can’t buy that.”;;
John agreed, saying: “It certainly can’t, no. A lot more pressure in this chair, compared to that chair.”;;
Earlier in the series, Mastermind viewers fumed as they declared
It saw contestant Phil choose classic sitcom as his specialist subject.
One person wrote on X: “I haven’t seen Blackadder in about five years, but I got four, so that set of questions was clearly far too easy...”;;
Another remarked: “Blackadder?! What’s that, 14 hours of TV to bone up on? Pathetic. I managed to answer all bar two of those and I’ve not seen any of it for years. So dumbed down now.”;;
Viewers also branded of sitcom as “ridiculous.”;;
Mastermind airs on BBC One and iPlayer.
