Hollie picks a lucky box from the sleigh, but Noel says that the Banker has told him that the box cannot be opened until the end of Hollie's game! The pilgrims boo at that decision.

Banker's offer:

£10,000

Noel reminds Hollie that should she play on she can open 1 box at a time before she gets an offer.

Hollie says

NO DEAL

Round 6 - Box 1

6 - £15,000 Shell

Banker time

That is difficult to call says Noel.

Banker's offer:

£10,000

Hollie says

NO DEAL

Round 6 - Box 2

15 - £50,000 Pommy

Banker time

The Banker says the boxes do have memories and 1p will again be won on Christmas day!!!

Banker's offer:

£999

Hollie says

NO DEAL

Round 6 - Final box

9 - £10 Beth

Banker time with 1p and £10,000 remaining

Oh my word and what on earth is happening here says Noel...

Hollie says she is convinced she has the 1p in her box, and her son was right about box 2 having a red in it.

The Banker says he is about to do something very special on this Christmas day! Noel says this has only ever happened once before in the show...

Banker's offer:

SWAP

What a decision says Noel, and asks how much faith Hollie has in her son's prediction that box 2 would have big money in.

Hollie says

SWAP

Noel swaps box 11 for box 2.

Noel opens Hollie's new box 2 and reveals 1p

That is the 2nd Christmas in a row says Noel and that is amazing

Tina opens box 11 and reveals £10,000

Noel opens Hollie's holiday box and reveals she has won an all inclusive week for 2 in Cuba

Hollie is now the 28th member of the 1p club.

The Banker calls and says he is not happy about Hollie having the holiday and is taking it away!!! He is now turning it into 2 weeks

Today's show will hopefully shut up the cynics that the show cannot "fix" the boxes and/or the offers to produce a happy result.

What's bigger than a barge now there are 28 members?

Cruise ship perhaps?

Dear me, will the 1p club hit 30 or more members before the end of 2009 I wonder

The signs says yes the way Season 5 is going at the moment

Enjoy the holiday n all that.

However why did she break her game plan of picking 22 too early?

Bah Humbug we understand

Well, that certainly wasn't as controversial as PJ's game where there was no offer at 2 box apart from the swap (I get the feeling there has been another one - I know there was a game where the 2 box offer was so low, it was virtually forcing the player to pick a box to open).

The holiday looks like it could be worth up to £2k (although I wondered if the banker may not have made the holiday for 5 people and not 2 - depending on whether the Cuba resort is family-friendly).

Main decision was really at 4 box again and I would have been looking towards 2 box and not 3 box today, where there was a 1/6 chance of probably £25k, 1/3 chance of probably £15k, 1/3 chance of about £2-£3k and 1/6 chance of nothing which works out to an expected 2 box offer of about £10k (of course by offering no offer, that kind of backfired on my thinking).

But then, the offer was the same as yesterday but with the £1k being replaced by £10k, so it really was a tough decision.

Well either that's proof it's not fixed or an elaborate plan to put us off the scent, but if it was fixed we'd surely, surely have known about it by now given that the LTL got rumbled.

Withdrawing the gift reveal may well have helped, and may have been planned for the possibility of this finish.

I played box 22 because it kept jumping out at me, I should have stuck to the plan but I didn't! Box 1 jumped out at me too and that had the quarter of a million in it so I should have realised that the big ones kept jumping out at me .
Everytime I was looking for a box to pick box 22 was there jumping lol, and I just thought it had the penny in it... oops