The attempt to make a global star out of a singing pair of legs from Essex starts here; there's a Pixie Lott interview on the RTL website.

Linda de Mol is a lot more subtle about showing off her legs.


How to look like you're wearing tights when you're actually wearing jeans.

We'll skip the first model walk, and we'll do just a summary of the quiz:

ROUND 1: red win 304-243. Prize: Samsung 10.2MP digital camera. Random remote pick: 9B/17, MARCEL. Prize: Samsung LED TV, rejected.

ROUND 2 (one answer in this round was 'Pornofilm'): block 3 win with 60. Random remote pick: 2B/17, VINCENT. Extra prize: holiday to New York... rejected.

ROUND 3 (with another rude answer!): 3B beat 3A 51-48. Random remote pick: 3B/19, MARKO. Extra prize: 16-night Caribbean cruise. Rejected!


I think his surname was 'de Hammer'. It would fit him if it was.

Random remote pick for the three prizes: 5A/20, MONIQUE. Three finalists from 3B: CHRISTINA, WINFRED, ELLEN. €10,000 random remote pick: Ria Aanstoot-Vogel. (Announced, boringly, as plain Ria Aanstoot.)

Final two: VINCENT and MARCEL. You might note that neither of them came from the winning block. Marcel has three kids, looks like he's at most 35. Vincent looks older, and also has three kids. Money clock: early freeze, slow throughout, stops at €37,000 with neither remotely tempted. Random remote pick for the €37,000: 6B/6, MIRANDA. "Wow!" she declares. Maths showdown... Vincent declares he's confident, Marcel doesn't!... 4*44 = 176. VINCENT WILL PLAY!

Now for the game. Well, we've got the eye candy first.


I'm cooler than the red dress...

He's chosen CASE 17. Second €10,000 random winner: Yvonne Blokland. Have I said before how much I love Dutch names?

Vincent has his dad in the audience I think. His wife appeared to offer advice but I can't understand a word of it. Two daughters and a son. Asked what he's looking to win and why, think he was saying he's wanting to help the kids.

Enough of that. I can understand THIS bit!

ROUND 1 (6 cases)
1 (guess €100) - €0.01. It's applauded! Linda smiles, too. "Good beginning!"
2 (to laughter!) (guess €25,000) - €1! "That's good..."
3 (IT'S THE DAVE SYSTEM!) (guess €1,000) - €500,000!
"Case number 4?"
4 (guess €10,000) - €1,000.
5 (guess €25,000) - €10. Worth the wait from an awkward case-opening.
He fakes 7...
6 (Ellen, who was in the final 6) (guess €100,000) - €25,000.

Linda says it's a "very good beginning"... she's right you know... dad doesn't think the opening offer will be much cop...

OFFER €27,000

He's right you know. NO DEAL.

ROUND 2 (5 cases)
He's going from the other end now...
26 (almost opened before the prediction! Guess €5) - €0.20!
25 (guess €400,000) - €400,000! CORRECT GUESS FOR €19,000! There was a pause as he opened it and case 26 gasped in shock, which made Linda think it was the jackpot...


No! I mean... yes! Yes! Yes!

"All the millions still there" says Linda.
24 (guess €100,000) - €1,000,000! The host curse is international.
23 (guess €50) - €5,000,000! Crowd goes silence. What an ugly round!!
22 (guess €50,000) - €5,000.

The actual Dave system would have produced unbelievable offers...

OFFER €32,000

Believe it or not, the second offer has been lower than the first on at least one occasion. NO DEAL.

ROUND 3 (4 cases)
7 (guess €75,000) - €500.
8 (guess €100,000) - €2,500,000! Vincent laughs. Linda is stunned. Halfway through the game and we're down to one of the top six.
9 (guess €200,000) - €20. We needed that.
10 (guess €100) - €50,000. Not applauded.

OFFER €37,000

Another five grand added. Crowd say No Deal. Vincent turns to his dad who seems to agree. LINDA DOESN'T EVEN GET TIME TO ASK THE QUESTION. NO DEAL in style.

ROUND 4 (3 cases)
21 (guess €2,500) - €2,500! CORRECT GUESS FOR €11,000! He deserved it for calling it 'twenty-five hundred euro' in my book. Bizarre harsh whisper from Linda pointing out €750,000 is still in play...
20 (guess €300,000) - ADBREAK AS HE'S IN THE MIDDLE OF OPENING IT! And it's... €5!
Believe it or not he's got two on the right for every one on the left now...
19 (guess €200,000) - €50!

This is a very stable position indeed:



OFFER €88,000

Game on! Crowd start shouting properly now. Too stable for me to leave just yet, it's barely over the median. Vincent's in a hurry to turn this down, Linda points out there's four higher and four lower... NO DEAL! Linda gets all excited at that...

ROUND 5 (2 cases)
11 (guess €0.50) - €75,000. Still good!
Linda doesn't want anything over 'the ton' (€100k
12 (guess €100,000) - €200,000. "Ooh." Followed by a possibly-rude word I didn't understand.

THE FINAL SIX
€0.50
€100
€10,000
€100,000
€300,000
€750,000

OFFER €101,000

With one to open I'm going on here. "What do you think?" asks Linda. Vincent talks through the odds, Linda does a bit too and implies a worst-case €40,000 or possibly €37,000 offer for taking out the €750,000. I think. DEAL! A quick one too. That caught Linda out I think, it definitely caught me out! "€101,000, congratulations!"

PROVEOUT (would have been an offer after every case)
18 (guess €10,000?) - €100,000. I'd expect about €130,000 here and would probably at least consider it.
13 (guess €10,000) - €10,000! CORRECT GUESS FOR €5,000, offer would be about €200,000. Would probably bail out.
16 (guess €750,000) - €300,000. And again it'd be about €200,000, which I'd take in a nanosecond if I'd not done so last time.
14 (guess €750,000) - €750,000! CORRECT GUESS FOR €3,000 and a big profit on the case is secured!

15 (guess €0.50) - €0.50! CORRECT GUESS FOR €2,000 and that means Vincent's case 17 had €100. Nice profit margin even if it was worth going on a bit further through the one-to-open rounds.