Mark's game today.

Noel says he's got trouble with the west wing at the moment as the banker doesn't like them. Noel says he's diagnosed a disease that's appeared and talks about Meena's "wibbly wobbly" yesterday which caused her to deal far too soon, and he ensures no-one's getting the wibbly wobblies today...

I hope Mark does better and goes further then that poor deal yesterday

Mark has box 19.

Mark is from the West Midlands and is a self-employed labourer and is currently building a house, but he said they've been 2 years building it and he's rubbish at it as they're not skilled enough! They also had problems with the planning permission as they re-classified a stream as a river and the house ended up on the flood plain and they had to re-do the plans! Noel says Mark sounds like an experienced builder as he's made no progress for 2 years

Mark says he's fascinated by Captain Scott's story of getting to the South Pole in 1912, and he'd love to go to the South Pole himself, and take the banker on a sledge and leave him there and get a new generous banker. Noel says he thought Mark was dull until now... he shows some pics of his nan.

Here we go

7 - Claude - £5

5 - Doug - £20,000

15 - Tony - £750

17 - Michelle - £50

10 - David - £35,000

Banker time

Hmm, an average start

This is the first anniversary of the death of the LTL. That day had a Wakeyist in the chair, but not a great result. Too early to predict this one... the start is definitely average.

The banker says he's about to report a bad start to the month... he says the contestants have been getting up to all sorts back at the hotel! Ada is accused of sneaking biscuits into the studio and eating them during the show, but she says she only had 1 biscuit! The banker lets her off... the banker doesn't want to talk about Mark as he finds him boring, but he has a quote for him...

Banker's offer:

£700

Board
1p
10p
50p
£1

£10

£100
£250
£500

£1,000
£3,000
£5,000
£10,000
£15,000


£50,000
£75,000
£100,000
£250,000

Offer: £8,700
Mean: £29,991.86
Offer (%) 29.01%
Fair Deal: £10,557.37
Offer (% Fair Deal) 82.41%

£700! that's not very nice!

Noel's messing about!

Real offer

Banker's offer:

£8,700

Mark says it's a NO DEAL

Wahoo, good round going into the break

4 - Pauline - £500

6 - Lou - £250

Noel thinks it's time for the builder to have a break

*Mugs of strong tea all round*

Five blues gone already is always a good sign. Let's see what comes from here - the middle phase of the game is always hugely influential.

Wooop first episode I've been able to watch for nearly a fortnight! Everything seems fairly similar apart from we seem to have a decent board now

Great so far, let's see if he keeps it up.

We're back

14 - Penny - £1,000

Banker time

I haven't watched "live" for ages. I forgot it was quite nice being able to comment on the board as it happens!

Much better