Unless I'm mistaken, Sarah also had the £250k in her box on her game ( If not, it was definitely a " life changing amount ") but she didn't believe in herself and have the courage to go all the way.. Although it takes incredible bravery - or stupidity to gamble on a ' hunch' : when it's ABSOLUTELY a game of luck!
As someone who watched DOND every day from 2005 - 2016 without fail, this was one of the best highlights from the entire series. You get hosts or games like this anymore. Noel is a true legend and you can clearly see he enjoys every DOND show and the contestants journey.
Anything over 60k she would have taken but the number meant so much to her so she was never gonna go back on it and to be fair she would have opened the box on a 100k as she was didn’t want to quit to her parents
The 8 and 5 box offers were well pitched, as shown by Laura struggling over both. The final offer was the show going "it's about time someone won the jackpot, go on."
£250,000 in 2007 is now over £400,000 when adjusted for inflation. In other words back then, it was like winning £400,000 would be today. Skip forwards to now and the new 2023 series where the top prize is only £100,000, if that was won today then it would be like winning about £60,000 in 2007. So not only is the prize money of £100,000 a lot lower, it's 2023 now... where £100,000 is like £60,000 in 2007. In other words the prize money today is more like FOUR times less than the £250,000 won by the first winner.
The sad thing is back 2007 when she won it January 2007, she could have bought an average home in England for about £181,824 with about 68 grand you could put in the bank... Roll on 2023, if she won £250,000 today.... with the average house price July 2023 of this year was £290,000... so wouldn't even be enough for her to buy a house or put anything in the bank.
@@APRICEPRODUCTION The second new series started in the UK yesterday (October 28th 2024). I saw no advertising for it and boom there it is on ITV. The jackpot of £100,000 is still the same as last year. The first show, he was so unlucky. Yes the £100,000 top prize of today is only about a third of the price of the average house. I have edited versions of the latest 2024 shows on my channel 👍
On that day, 7th of January 2007, I would’ve been 4 years of age watching this program with my grandparents waiting for my birthday which would be the next day.
Loved this show, never missed an episode. Watching them all again and still enjoying every minute. Noel was brilliant as the host, so much better than the new deal or no deal, and even the lovely Steven Mulhearn, cant compare to Noel
Yes, you could literally feel the tension and yet it was such a simple game with simply one question: deal or no deal. That was basically it. The genius was in its simplicity.
Something you may have noticed it you watched the videos of Laura and Alice's wins. Both are from the town of Monmouth and both their wins made Noel "choked up completely"
@@Isleofskye Extraordinary!! And both A and L appear in both first syllables but in reverse order! LAura and ALice! This is something out of The Matrix!!
Yeah she did well gambling at end but banker should off offered more. I know you dont expect 125000 but it should off been 75000 to 100000 thats more pressure then
@@James.chalmersWhich means that the jackpot on the Chase should be higher, but instead they’ve made an incredibly difficult game consistently reward low prizes
@@govand7WWTBAM still has decent payouts though. I thought the Chase was bigger as a newer show but beat the chasers seems to get more attention for smaller payouts. Somebody winning 250k there gets more views than Donald Fear winning a million pounds.
Issue with the chase now is this increasingly big shift from the show to get all players in the final chase so encouraging them to go for the lower offer even more even if the prize pot is poor. It's probably why we hardly see many big minus offers anymore.
Delighted for her but was a derisory offer from The Banker ! Less than 20% of the value on the table. If Noel thinks £45,000 is chunky money then offer that to him for his house and see how he feels then ! lol
Ok... I'm not even messing here For the benefit of everyone in chat this guy responded back to me... on my channel. Not even messing. He actually decided to go that far to go into my own channel and then write a response pretending as if he was living in a palace.... That has to be one of the most insane and funniest ways I've ever seen anyone respond back to me
My question to myself would be.....would it hurt more to go away with 3,000 or hurt more losing £250,000....my answer ...it would hurt more to lose £250,000
@@yasin_b No but that doesn't mean that I would do it any different if I had. If everyone who went on the show would think to that , that 45K is so much money, no-one would ever have won the 250K.
There was someone on the phone, that someone being - at least at this point - Glenn Hugill, former Corrie actor and host of Channel 5 cult favourite The Mole. Noel made a point of putting the phone speaker to his microphone so we could hear Banker laughter sometimes, which was partly a great dramatic moment and partly showed people the Banker was surely real.
I believe she said in the aftermath that she'd have taken £50k. So the Banker almost made a great saving... But what a brutal "almost" for him 😂 (I think £65k is about what I'd be looking for on this finish myself, for what it's worth.)
The Banker In 1980, as a ten-year-old schoolboy, he scored a 207 in a national IQ test designed for under 16s. It was the highest recorded result in the country. Local newspaper The Northern Echo then reported he took another test designed for adults and recorded a result of 177, the highest score the test was capable of registering.
"THE secret banker on cult television show Deal or No Deal is a former North-East soap star, it was revealed yesterday. Glenn Hugill was unmasked as the mysterious dealer who calls host Noel Edmonds on the hit Channel 4 show. Although his identity or voice are never disclosed, the banker has amassed a huge following. Mr Hugill, 41, from Barnard Castle, County Durham, is also the producer of the British version of the game show,"
Don't you just LOVE IT when someone tries to trip you up and criticizes you, especially in an abusive way, and then makes HIMSELF look an " idiotic twerp" at the very least. In that case, I will continue your vernacular.... You have made a STUPID ASSumption that the .article that I quoted in the second comment was linked and written at the same time as the opening comment which was from now. It was NOT, you fool. I gave you no idea when it was written and I was quoting what they, CORRECTLY, wrote at the time. I NEVER said that the two separate quotes were made simultaneously. The first quote is from Wikipedia and the second was OBVIOUSLY written in 2011 when he WAS 41 years old !! So just one question for you Mr. Imbecile.....HOW DO YOU FEEL ?.........lol
The banker is the kind of guy to call stalk you, imagine being in bed and you get a phone call, “saying I know where you live so I’ve got an offer for you”
45k was a joke... Can hand on heart say I'd fined that easy to gamble on... 250k is 5x to that... no brainer, the offer should of been 70-90k that's the tough spot!
Unless I'm mistaken It's literally exactly 50/50 You either win 250k or you don't If anybody offers you a coin flip and to buy the flip it costs you less than half of what you can win, although easier said than done... You take it Gamble 45k for an even chance at 250k...
I'm a gambler myself so I probably don't fit in with the sensible 70/80% crowd that takes the deal there ( I'm not saying I'm right) just for me personally.. even though I'm a poor person lol, I could easily get over 45k... but how many times in your life do you have 50/50 shot at 250k... that's how I look at it anyway!
I always had a problem with the authenticity of DOND. How come a contestant who never bothered, unduly, about their appearance suddenly looked much more attractive on the day they "just happened" to be picked which means the Production crew knew each show who it would be, and that lucky person was provided with their box which someone from the Production team allocated to them beforehand. It would be easy for me to choose the box with a specific amount depending on what they have seen of their personality over the last 20 shows when they were not chosen. IF the person who had been chosen for the day walked over to the 22 Boxes and chose one THEMSELVES then that would prove it was fair, also, if it was "random" how comes in the 2,000 shows "Newbies" never got randomly picked on their first day when that should occur, on average nearly 100 times over the years but it never happened:)
@@t.c.4321 Not terrible at all.Quite the reverse. Of course but if the Computer picks that day's contestant "at random" then that contradicts our point about "first-day fairness". As I said, out of 2,200 shows on average, 100 times the newbie should come out first. Understandably, they do not, so it isn't that random, and as I said, how come, very often the chosen one who is seen to walk straight down from being chosen to playing looks very much more presentable on that day. It's like they "knew" they were going to be chosen. lol
In later years, but not initially - don't know when it changed or if it had happened when Laura played - the contestants actually did know who'd be playing that episode when they entered, and the warmup man Mark Olver would inform the pilgrims beforehand. The selection was always hand-picked on some level to ensure players mostly had average-length wing runs and that the exceptions were deliberate (like 50-show Lucy who was local to Bristol where the show was recorded, or a few contestants who had deliberately short runs for one reason or another). Everyone picked their box through a tombola-type draw with 22 numbered balls in a bag; I believe that the contestant would have first pick once we reached the point they knew in advance. So at least at that point, and to my knowledge always, the contestant selection took place *before* it was known even to the independent adjudicator who had what amount. (On the ITV revival, it was back to being a surprise reveal again.)
@@shinydavidhowell Now THAT makes perfect sense David and seems eminently fair and genuine. I do not need to repeat or re-iterate your point but after 50+ years in Accountancy and from 1995 having my own Gambling Business until 2017,I knew the "randomness" was nonsense. Stephen seems OK but I (perhaps, unfairly) find most contestants very pleasant but very irrational and frustrating with a grasp of The Laws Of Probability, and after around 2,000(?) shows I am going through shouting at the screen again. Comments like "I am due" etc. The Boxes like a Casino Wheel or Toss of a coin has no memory. The acceptance of deals of appalling value and a failure to realize it is not just about the final round(The Box v What you accepted) but whether you would have received,at least, one more increased offer by your position and the mathematical likelihood that you would improve it. I could go on and on. What IS unrealistic about this Series are The Banker's "supposed" offers when the player deals and they carry on. It, literally, does not add up as the other day, The Banker was "supposedly" going to offer 2/3tds of a high box that remained when his other box was a low Blue. Utter nonsense. Here endeth the mini rant:)
Hear me out... What if... There never really was a "banker" whatsoever, and it was just Noel coming up with these offers on the spot; there is nobody on the phone. And he is the one who sorts the boxes before the game, and he just has a really good pokerface?
I used to watch this show regularly. Noel would often hold the phone receiver to his microphone (on his shirt) and you could hear the banker laughing and saying certain things... (I think before he did that lots of people used to think "yeh right, as if there's actually someone on the phone...")
In the American version, the banker wouldn't offer 20% on a 50/50 coin flip. He would have offered, at least, 100 or 125,000 dollars. 49,000 against 250,000? Why not just a ham sandwich? No wonder she said no deal...she can count.
![[EXTENDED] Catherine Tate's Nan on Deal or No Deal UK](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/w3vJIJ31S34/mqdefault.jpg)
Who is here rewatching some classic episodes now DoND is back?
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sad the new 100k one is not good😒
Me love the Noel 1s 😊
Me 😂
Noel or No Deal
Unbelievable host edmonds. Genius at creating tension
This moment never gets old.
it was a proper T v event - the don't have them any more
"It couldn't happen to a more wonderful person." What a nice thing to say.
Especially for a player who lost a pet hamster 😢
Met Noel Edmond’s once in London many years ago and he’s a very nice man
The lady has nerves of steel, good on her.
Yes, and you would probably be the one calling her an idiot if it didn't pay off and saying "Why not take the 45K?" lol
The 250k win was awesome, but seeing an audience member win 10k at the end made it even better 😊
I was in the audience for this!
No way
Where abouts were you?
@@joshuasprucie8933 in the audience
@@dash1141 ok smart ass.
I think she has 7 kids mow
the confetti guy finaly got to do his job!
@Steffan Bowen wow your really into this, thanks for the info
Unless I'm mistaken, Sarah also had the £250k in her box on her game ( If not, it was definitely a " life changing amount ") but she didn't believe in herself and have the courage to go all the way.. Although it takes incredible bravery - or stupidity to gamble on a ' hunch' : when it's ABSOLUTELY a game of luck!
I have the Board Game of this and if somebody does win the £250,000, I’m SO raining the confetti down!
I swear there never used that much confetti again. It came down like a blizzard here.
@@robinnes2662It was the first time anyone won the 250k so that's probably why it rained confetti so much.
As someone who watched DOND every day from 2005 - 2016 without fail, this was one of the best highlights from the entire series. You get hosts or games like this anymore. Noel is a true legend and you can clearly see he enjoys every DOND show and the contestants journey.
You watched DOND everyday during its entire run? Respect.
Banker's offers were too low and the banker paid the price for that. Awesome watching that back again
Anything over 60k she would have taken but the number meant so much to her so she was never gonna go back on it and to be fair she would have opened the box on a 100k as she was didn’t want to quit to her parents
Yes the Banker got arogant thinking she'll take it. If a was him ad have offered her 90k
The 8 and 5 box offers were well pitched, as shown by Laura struggling over both.
The final offer was the show going "it's about time someone won the jackpot, go on."
much lower than the average of the remaining values. mean banker got to learn a lesson.
@@scottkilner2116 No, the banker wanted her to gamble. Increased temptation with low ball offer
Love how happy the camera crew are as well.
Its similar to when judith keppel won the million on who want to be a millionaire, the production crew went insane when keppel won it
Why is Noel Edmonds not still on our TV screens....what a professional....and so positive..??
He now lives in Australia or New Zealand. We should never have lost him!
£250,000 in 2007 is now over £400,000 when adjusted for inflation. In other words back then, it was like winning £400,000 would be today. Skip forwards to now and the new 2023 series where the top prize is only £100,000, if that was won today then it would be like winning about £60,000 in 2007. So not only is the prize money of £100,000 a lot lower, it's 2023 now... where £100,000 is like £60,000 in 2007. In other words the prize money today is more like FOUR times less than the £250,000 won by the first winner.
The sad thing is back 2007 when she won it January 2007, she could have bought an average home in England for about £181,824 with about 68 grand you could put in the bank...
Roll on 2023, if she won £250,000 today.... with the average house price July 2023 of this year was £290,000... so wouldn't even be enough for her to buy a house or put anything in the bank.
@@APRICEPRODUCTION The second new series started in the UK yesterday (October 28th 2024).
I saw no advertising for it and boom there it is on ITV.
The jackpot of £100,000 is still the same as last year. The first show, he was so unlucky.
Yes the £100,000 top prize of today is only about a third of the price of the average house.
I have edited versions of the latest 2024 shows on my channel 👍
Noel Edmunds did a great job as the presenter all through deal or no deal
Love the reactions from the DOND team! They have been waiting for this moment! ❤️🙏 Brings a tear to the eye watching this moment!
I must admit.. this show was good
It was, but Golden Balls tops it as best ever just because it nearly turned people into murderers lol
it was wank
@@npdoughty1988 Golden Balls was the GOAT
@@Matthew-bu7fgbut here you are
Out of all the Deal or no Deal bankers, the UK bankers... he has to be the nicest
Well he is the most honest supervillain in the world.
Wish deal or no deal was still on tv miss it
Theres a new one ment to be launched soon look it up
You've got your wish! 😊😊
@@RenaissanceEarCandy100k top prize and Stephen mulhern hosting .. better than nowt but not as good as the Noel days .
It's back but let's be honest it's a pale imitation of these great days. No 250k, no Noel, no party.
The banker got owned big time.
@Steffan Bowen should have been 70k minimum not 50k
What a time for the blind guy to be the newbie! At least he gets to say he was there for the first quarter millionaire. What a show
On that day, 7th of January 2007, I would’ve been 4 years of age watching this program with my grandparents waiting for my birthday which would be the next day.
J3ssica Thanks for making me feel old
I didn’t see this game Live but at least Challenge re-aired it and I did get to witness it six years later.
And your point is what ?
You've got a good memory , hope you got some nice presents 🎁 😀
Banker: *OWNED*
Laura: *THUG LIFE*
Thank you Noel Edmond's & intelligent Woman.
Loved this show, never missed an episode. Watching them all again and still enjoying every minute. Noel was brilliant as the host, so much better than the new deal or no deal, and even the lovely Steven Mulhearn, cant compare to Noel
Never saw this, but a brilliant show
Noel Edmunds is a legend. End of.
Wish this would come bacj on
Yes, you could literally feel the tension and yet it was such a simple game with simply one question: deal or no deal. That was basically it. The genius was in its simplicity.
I found her tenacity mad attractive
Something you may have noticed it you watched the videos of Laura and Alice's wins. Both are from the town of Monmouth and both their wins made Noel "choked up completely"
And Laura and Alice each have 5 letters.... Spooky!!😗
They even look similar, same hairstyle
@@sergioalmasy8722 and Laura and Alice both have an "A" AND "L" in their name.
Extraordinary..
@@Isleofskye Extraordinary!! And both A and L appear in both first syllables but in reverse order! LAura and ALice! This is something out of The Matrix!!
@@Isleofskye
Oh wow!! You can spell. Extraordinary!!!!! LOL!!!!
Fab show and great to watch, well done Laura.
I wonder how Laura is doing now 14 years later? Anyone know?
Last I heard she was Owning and managing a chain of legal brothels in Monmouthshire catering for the seasonal trade...
Congratulations to Laura the brave and rest in peace wolfy the guinea pig
I absolutely love this version of Deal or No Deal. The people are so nice and the host is hot!
You mean Noel?..
He was 58 then and 69 now....
You’ve obviously not met his best friend mr blobby
vicki shallenberg
Let's be honest...Noel Edmonds is the hottest stud to have ever walked the face of the earth.
34:42 The moment of truth.
Edmonds thinking I get paid this per show lol
No he doesn't per show
Look up what happened. Edmonds got stiffed badly
@@slobiden.2593 what happened?
@@srehtaef1824 he shagged the banker.
@@JamieReynolds89 beautiful
This is the first time i seen this im so over the moon for this very lucky lady
He face says it all when he just sat there quietly he knows his work is done
Sunday 7th January 2007
Yeah she did well gambling at end but banker should off offered more. I know you dont expect 125000 but it should off been 75000 to 100000 thats more pressure then
It's to get her to turn it down, makes good TV either way
Noel is like the proud dad 🥲
This gives you the shivers every time 😂😂
How do you play? As a 6 yr old in 2011, I just liked the box opening and the sound.
2007: "£6,000? Yeah that's not bad actually"
2022: "OMFG WE WON £2,000 ON THE CHASE JESUS CHRIST AHHHHHDJFSKWRHAK"
What happened to this country?
The chase takes knowledge to win this is just opening random boxes a game of luck
@@James.chalmers yes exactly so surely if anything the jackpot should be the same if not higher
@@James.chalmersWhich means that the jackpot on the Chase should be higher, but instead they’ve made an incredibly difficult game consistently reward low prizes
@@govand7WWTBAM still has decent payouts though. I thought the Chase was bigger as a newer show but beat the chasers seems to get more attention for smaller payouts. Somebody winning 250k there gets more views than Donald Fear winning a million pounds.
Issue with the chase now is this increasingly big shift from the show to get all players in the final chase so encouraging them to go for the lower offer even more even if the prize pot is poor. It's probably why we hardly see many big minus offers anymore.
Well done Laura! x Took guts that x
Wonderful 🎉
Greetings from South Africa
No ways, same here
It must've been the holding hands that won it for her.
Julia Chang was in the studio
She was in the audience twice with the 250000 in the box. Had it twice herself. Crazy stuff. Bunny also had it in his when he went too.
Delighted for her but was a derisory offer from The Banker !
Less than 20% of the value on the table.
If Noel thinks £45,000 is chunky money then offer that to him for his house and see how he feels then ! lol
Ok... I'm not even messing here
For the benefit of everyone in chat this guy responded back to me... on my channel. Not even messing.
He actually decided to go that far to go into my own channel and then write a response pretending as if he was living in a palace....
That has to be one of the most insane and funniest ways I've ever seen anyone respond back to me
Bunny went on to win 110k in his game later on that month.
@@IsleofskyeI agree with you
@@anngulliver5964 Thanks Ann...
What a gutsy lady we'll done🎉
Can you put more adverts on this please
Most youtubers are just the same. All money grabbing idiots... they might as well just post adverts than actual quality content.
Sad lightweights
wish id gone to that afterparty
And here I was wondering until the end if she won or not - totally missed the title of the video! :)
Noel Edmonds: You’re getting a reputation?
Contestant: Hold my Chardonnay!
I hated it when they opened the box really slowly. That just made it more painful.
My question to myself would be.....would it hurt more to go away with 3,000 or hurt more losing £250,000....my answer ...it would hurt more to lose £250,000
That's the way I feel about the game.
@@christianfrost8660yeah but it’s still real money, 45000 is literally so much, u haven’t been on the show to see what it’s like mate
@@yasin_b No but that doesn't mean that I would do it any different if I had. If everyone who went on the show would think to that , that 45K is so much money, no-one would ever have won the 250K.
I love this moment uk deal or no deal
As a quarter millionaire laura
sarah knew it was there the whole time 😭
17:25 onwards
I would’ve offered £126,500 at the end, because that’s halfway between £3,000 and the quarter mil.
That would be a rubbish offer since she would obviously deal , 65000+ would of been better since it is a smarter and cheaper offer lmao
I have always wondered, is there actually anyone on the end of the phone, or is it all done through Noels headset by the team.
There was someone on the phone, that someone being - at least at this point - Glenn Hugill, former Corrie actor and host of Channel 5 cult favourite The Mole. Noel made a point of putting the phone speaker to his microphone so we could hear Banker laughter sometimes, which was partly a great dramatic moment and partly showed people the Banker was surely real.
Should put this back on it 2020. What happened to it was a good show
Yeah loved it noel got fed up and it is currently lockdown
@@mrbrooklyn8180and it’s coming back soon!
Somebody tell me why this show got cancelled, seriously
probably the ratings, they were in a all time low.
Dwindling viewership and Channel 4 losing confidence on the show. The last 2 years the show was on air it was shown in a graveyard slot.
45k was such a pathetic offer with 3k minimum guaranteed. Would have to offer her at least 75-80k to walk.
I think 65+ would be good
I believe she said in the aftermath that she'd have taken £50k. So the Banker almost made a great saving... But what a brutal "almost" for him 😂
(I think £65k is about what I'd be looking for on this finish myself, for what it's worth.)
9:02 I didn't know Ron Paul was on Deal or No Deal!
HD?
Watched this one when it aired
The Banker In 1980, as a ten-year-old schoolboy, he scored a 207 in a national IQ test designed for under 16s. It was the highest recorded result in the country. Local newspaper The Northern Echo then reported he took another test designed for adults and recorded a
result of 177, the highest score the test was capable of registering.
REALLY??
"THE secret banker on cult television show Deal or No Deal is a former North-East soap star, it was revealed yesterday.
Glenn Hugill was unmasked as the mysterious dealer who calls host Noel Edmonds on the hit Channel 4 show.
Although his identity or voice are never disclosed, the banker has amassed a huge following.
Mr Hugill, 41, from Barnard Castle, County Durham, is also the producer of the British version of the game show,"
@@Isleofskye In which case, you idiotic twerp, he wouldn't have been 10 in 1980 if he is 41 now.
Don't you just LOVE IT when someone tries to trip you up and criticizes you, especially in an abusive way, and then makes HIMSELF look an " idiotic twerp" at the very least. In that case, I will continue your vernacular....
You have made a STUPID ASSumption that the .article that I quoted in the second comment was linked and written at the same time as the opening comment which was from now. It was NOT, you fool. I gave you no idea when it was written and I was quoting what they, CORRECTLY, wrote at the time. I NEVER said that the two separate quotes were made simultaneously.
The first quote is from Wikipedia and the second was OBVIOUSLY written in 2011 when he WAS 41 years old !!
So just one question for you Mr. Imbecile.....HOW DO YOU FEEL ?.........lol
@@Isleofskye nailed him 🤣💪
This is so wholesome
He knew. Look at his face at the end x
Don't remember the 3 box's at the end
The banker is the kind of guy to call stalk you, imagine being in bed and you get a phone call, “saying I know where you live so I’ve got an offer for you”
i wonder what laura is doing now.
Was it good to turn the offer
Yes! At 34:42
Who'll sign a petition to get 250 back in the Stephen Mulhern game?
We were there in 2007 when she won.............
Based on the "WHAT'S INSIDE THE BOX"....
made Edmonds a fortune AGAIN!!!
Must be tough carrying those balls of steel
45k was a joke...
Can hand on heart say I'd fined that easy to gamble on... 250k is 5x to that... no brainer, the offer should of been 70-90k that's the tough spot!
Unless I'm mistaken
It's literally exactly 50/50
You either win 250k or you don't
If anybody offers you a coin flip and to buy the flip it costs you less than half of what you can win, although easier said than done... You take it
Gamble 45k for an even chance at 250k...
I'm a gambler myself so I probably don't fit in with the sensible 70/80% crowd that takes the deal there ( I'm not saying I'm right) just for me personally.. even though I'm a poor person lol, I could easily get over 45k... but how many times in your life do you have 50/50 shot at 250k... that's how I look at it anyway!
@@JamesMarsh-ov6iiIt's actually 50/50. Literally is an unnecessary word because it is basically repetition.
How much do you expect to be fined for your gamble? There is no e in find!
Logo o SBT cópia esse programa
Omg go Laura x
A brilliantly simple game
I always had a problem with the authenticity of DOND. How come a contestant who never bothered, unduly, about their appearance suddenly looked much more attractive on the day they "just happened" to be picked which means the Production crew knew each show who it would be, and that lucky person was provided with their box which someone from the Production team allocated to them beforehand. It would be easy for me to choose the box with a specific amount depending on what they have seen of their personality over the last 20 shows when they were not chosen. IF the person who had been chosen for the day walked over to the 22 Boxes and chose one THEMSELVES then that would prove it was fair, also, if it was "random" how comes in the 2,000 shows "Newbies" never got randomly picked on their first day when that should occur, on average nearly 100 times over the years but it never happened:)
The contestants are picked before the show it's not random, the box picking before the show is random though
That's a terrible point. There is obviously some sort of policy where new comers aren't selected straight away for fairness...
@@t.c.4321 Not terrible at all.Quite the reverse.
Of course but if the Computer picks that day's contestant "at random" then that contradicts our point about "first-day fairness". As I said, out of 2,200 shows on average, 100 times the newbie should come out first. Understandably, they do not, so it isn't that random, and as I said, how come, very often the chosen one who is seen to walk straight down from being chosen to playing looks very much more presentable on that day. It's like they "knew" they were going to be chosen. lol
In later years, but not initially - don't know when it changed or if it had happened when Laura played - the contestants actually did know who'd be playing that episode when they entered, and the warmup man Mark Olver would inform the pilgrims beforehand. The selection was always hand-picked on some level to ensure players mostly had average-length wing runs and that the exceptions were deliberate (like 50-show Lucy who was local to Bristol where the show was recorded, or a few contestants who had deliberately short runs for one reason or another). Everyone picked their box through a tombola-type draw with 22 numbered balls in a bag; I believe that the contestant would have first pick once we reached the point they knew in advance. So at least at that point, and to my knowledge always, the contestant selection took place *before* it was known even to the independent adjudicator who had what amount.
(On the ITV revival, it was back to being a surprise reveal again.)
@@shinydavidhowell Now THAT makes perfect sense David and seems eminently fair and genuine.
I do not need to repeat or re-iterate your point but after 50+ years in Accountancy and from 1995 having my own Gambling Business until 2017,I knew the "randomness" was nonsense.
Stephen seems OK but I (perhaps, unfairly) find most contestants very pleasant but very irrational and frustrating with a grasp of The Laws Of Probability, and after around 2,000(?) shows I am going through shouting at the screen again.
Comments like "I am due" etc. The Boxes like a Casino Wheel or Toss of a coin has no memory. The acceptance of deals of appalling value and a failure to realize it is not just about the final round(The Box v What you accepted) but whether you would have received,at least, one more increased offer by your position and the mathematical likelihood that you would improve it. I could go on and on.
What IS unrealistic about this Series are The Banker's "supposed" offers when the player deals and they carry on.
It, literally, does not add up as the other day, The Banker was "supposedly" going to offer 2/3tds of a high box that remained when his other box was a low Blue. Utter nonsense.
Here endeth the mini rant:)
Awesome
Amazing , took bottle that
£45,000 was a very low offer for a £3,000/£250,000 finish, especially since Corinne was offered £88,000 for a 1p/£250,000 finish.
21:00 The penny was in Bunney's box!
15 years ago...
34:42
The moment Laura became the first quarter of a millionaire.
36:17 "The most wonderful anti climax...." XD
Hear me out... What if... There never really was a "banker" whatsoever, and it was just Noel coming up with these offers on the spot; there is nobody on the phone. And he is the one who sorts the boxes before the game, and he just has a really good pokerface?
I used to watch this show regularly. Noel would often hold the phone receiver to his microphone (on his shirt) and you could hear the banker laughing and saying certain things...
(I think before he did that lots of people used to think "yeh right, as if there's actually someone on the phone...")
Yeah I know there was one. I used to watch it loads, but I never picked up on that. I assumed there was one but.. just throwing that theory out there!
@@Cazammaf Yep. Like I said, I think most people had that theory at the beginning, until he did that.
Poke in the face....& watch is wig rise
@@Cazammaf .The Banker was The Producer: Glenn Hugill. Aged 49.
Congratulations kid
In the American version, the banker wouldn't offer 20% on a 50/50 coin flip. He would have offered, at least, 100 or 125,000 dollars. 49,000 against 250,000? Why not just a ham sandwich? No wonder she said no deal...she can count.
20% of £250,000 is not £49,000 & $125,000 would be worth more than 50% of the £250,000.....
Exactly. This version is much better. Lower offers - more drama
34:57 This guy!
Where do they find these audiences, Jesus.
33:20
35:35 Noel just wants a hug...
38:05
I was expecting £90k offer from the banker
I was thinking about 75k. 45k was a pretty bad offer.
Strange watching something Pre-Crash, Pre-Austerity, Pre Covid, Pre mini budget.
Balls of steel