Houghton Regis tube worker Barry Finn-Hurst chases down £6,000 prize on TV show The Chase

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A TUBE worker has pocketed £6,000 after beating a Mastermind champion in the hit TV show, The Chase.

Golfer and amateur operatics lover Barry Finn-Hurst, 50, from Houghton Regis, was part of a duo who were victorious in the general knowledge quiz show.

Barry will appear in the pre-recorded show as part of a team trying to get one over Shaun Wallace, one of four ‘Chasers’ on the show.

He said: “I watch The Chase quite regularly and at the end of the show they ask ‘are you good enough to beat the Chase?’ and I signed up because I was up for a challenge.

“When I watch the show I normally do fairly well and I pit myself against the Chaser and I usually get about 80 per cent right.”

Barry applied for the show in November 2012 but it was not until April 2013 that he was called in for an audition.

Filming took place last year.

He said: “I did not have a plan for the show because the format is such that you never know how far you are going to go in the chase builder.

“There’s no point in going with a hard and straight plan because there’s a chance it’s going to change.”

However, Barry said his team tried to use some tactics later on in the game but only two of them were able to make it to the final.

He said: “When it was down to the last two I was nervous but I was actually more nervous than at the beginning.

“I was not particularly confident that we would win because I did not think we had answered enough questions.

“But when the Chaser started answering his questions I thought, ‘we’ve got a decent chance’.

“Winning was great and beating a Mastermind champion made it better.”

The Chase is on ITV1 tomorrow at 5pm.

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