(187) The dream of the Quiz Show host worsted through two friends (one of them a female who romanticizes about the player) helping that player to answer correctly

The examples thus far listed constitute, for the most part, clear cut coincidences or sometimes groupings of two or more.
But I had also recorded long chains of events, one from September 2001 and another from March 2003, where I had cobbled together clear coincidences, double entendres in speech and headlines and other, often very, very vague, possible correspondences.
The first of these, spanning twenty-five pages, I termed ́A Splurge ́, and the second, much smaller, one, More of A Splurge.
Each contained a lot about the alleged fraudulent win of the top prize on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? by Major Charles Ingram, who was charged with having had assistance in answering the questions from two co-defendants; his wife, Diana, and another contestant, Tecwen Whittock.

One of the other major themes was how I was arguing with my wife about the conclusion towards I felt myself being inexorably drawn; Life is a dream.
I then experimented on March 6th 2003 by adding the Splurges to the text of what is now this Blog on my word processor, by cutting and pasting them in from elsewhere on my computer files.

I had already sent articles to the editor of The Sunday Telegraph and to William Hartston at The Express, pointing out that Tarrant had done just that of which the Ingrams stood accused, but neither had wanted to publish. My counter-case for the Ingrams was that if Celador proceeded then it might be Tarrant's undoing, for he had clearly urged and/or helped players on the show.

More of A Splurge ended with Major Ingram's statement of how he was going to be more forceful on the second day's questioning. Taken from the transcripts of proceedings given in The Sun, it read: When Ingram returned to the chair, wearing the same rugby shirt, the banter went

Tarrant:

"What could possibly go wrong? We are going over the top, Major. We return with Charles Ingram in the hot seat - a position he may well have been in before having served in the Falklands and Bosnia... Have you got a strategy?"

Ingram: "I have actually. I was a bit defensive on the last shoot. I started talking myself out of answers. This time I'm going on the counterattack. I'm going to be a lot more positive and show more self-commitment. You only get in the chair once."

As I pasted that second part into the text, instantaneously my wife called out to me from downstairs that a synchronicity was occurring on the TV that Sacha was watching which I would probably want to note.
She thought it was Goosebumps Goosebumps (1995 TV series) - Wikipedia but it was actually on an ITV kids show called Seriously Weird. Seriously Weird - Wikipedia

I had never heard of it. I went down two flights of stairs and saw that she was indicating that a kid ("Harris") was on a games show. But it was in his dream!

He was strapped to a board and under fear of dire punishment were he to fail - down a shute to some nasty end. But two of his friends appeared and helped him with the answers and thus he succeeded.

Fiona had been moving between the kitchen and the front room, and so had not picked up on all of the details, but she specified that the last question had been something like "What is making that roaring?".
The boy suggested first "A lion", and as that was wrong he moved closer to the shute.
His friend then ventured "A tiger", but that was not right neither, and so the boy edged further towards his death. The dreamer's friends then amended that to "A Siberian Tiger," Which proved to be the second of the three necessary right answers in order for the guy strapped to the board to triumph

And, with that triumph, the undoing of the host

Instead of the boy it was now the question master, who had a nasty, threatening manner and was clearly looking forward to the player failing and being punished, who was tied to the board and sent down the shute.

"This is my dream: I can control it!" the boy observed.

On October 19th, 2025 I at last got to see that clip - Seriously Weird - Episode 1-06 - When Harris Stopped Sleeping - Part 3
- and realised that although t's not quite as Fiona recalled, the gist was accurate. 

Here is the Wikipedia outline -

• "When Harris Stopped Sleeping" – 12 October 2002. Harris is prevented from sleeping by a motivational speaker so he can study all night for an upcoming test. However, all the things he would have dreamt about manifest themselves in the real world.

After the three correct answers given enable Harris to escape his own death, Harris then gets the Quiz Host strapped down where he had been strapped and, as the Host then disappears into the maw to his own death, he exclaims, "Beaten by myself! What a way to go!" 

(Don´t forget that Charles Ingram also said he came close to suicide over his trial. And afterwards he received death threats.

And that my own cited advances to media people re how the Host, Chris Tarrant, made something of a rod for his own back by, calling Ingram "A cad, a bandit" and "a cheating bastard" and also calling for his imprisonment after he was convicted. For all of that was after Tarrant himself blatantly prompted a player on a 250,000 Pounds Question two years before Ingram played!)

After that episode of Seriously Weird ended the ITV presenter said "Aw, never mind Harris; it was only a dream. Or was it?"

I asked my son if he recognised the actor playing the quizmaster and whether he had seen him on the same programme before. He replied that he had not, but he had seen him on Liar Liar, playing the dad.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liar_Lia This was a mis-identification, but Fiona explained that he bore a facial similarity to Jim Carrey.
And see how all of this fits in so well with the later coincidence at Entry 211 in which there develops a dispute over whether something is a Lion or a Tiger - https://james-plasketts-coincidence-diary.blogspot.com/2007/06/210-meeting-bob-monkhouse.html