A CRISP fanatic has bagged himself £1million from Walkers after winning a national competition to create a new flavour.

Paul Rothwell, 40, of Westcliff, entered his suggestion of pulled pork in a sticky barbecue sauce into the Walkers ‘Do Us A Flavour’ competition and, after making the final six, received 26 per cent of the public vote.

David Walliams and celebrity chef Marco Pierre White chose Paul’s creation as one of the final six flavours and after three months of frenzied campaigning, pulled pork proved a hit with the nation.

Paul said: “I can’t believe I have won £1million.

“You always dream about what you would do with such a large amount of money and now that dream has become a reality.

“It was nail biting toward the end of the campaign and I really had no clue which way the public would go with the vote.

“I was up against five other delicious and imaginative flavours so I really didn’t expect to win. Thank you so much to everyone who voted for me, I’m truly over the moon.”

More than 1.2 million entries were submitted when the competition opened in January, with some of the more obscure suggestions including dinosaur and grasshoppers.

Paul is a self-confessed crisp fiend and couldn’t help but enter his own creation.

A big fan of American food shows where everything is dialled up to 11, he suggested his take on the barbecue favourite, pulled pork, which clearly tickled the nation’s taste buds.

Creators of the five other final flavours, hotdog with tomato ketchup, ranch raccoon, cheesy beans on toast, sizzling steak fajita and chip shop chicken curry, each received £10,000 as a runner-up prize.