Tom's game today.

Noel says he's conscious that on a Sunday (!!! ) we get people who don't watch the show during the week. He explains what a banker spanking is, and says we had a number of spankings during the week, including Floyd on Friday. He says he hopes we have another spanking on this Sunday.

Did think it would be him, however once again, another non proper Sunday (Saturday) player.

First evidence of the rescheduling, two weeks later than I expected!

Tom has box 7.

Tom is from Hertfordshire and is a retired paratrooper. He says he once got entangled in a parachute while he was in the air, but he got entangled with the medical sergeant's parachute so it had a happy ending! We get to see a photo of his wife and his late dog, and his wife is in the audience today. Tom has a memento with him which has the patron saint of paratroopers on it. He has a couple of numbers which he'll be keeping.

Here we go...

Round 1

Tom says he lived in 20 houses during his career, and he'll be picking the numbers of the houses.

12 - newbie Coleen - £750

Noel says Coleen was a star of Indian radio when she was younger.

20 - Tony - £20,000

1 - Emma - £75,000

3 - Lee - £10,000

6 - Craig - £250,000

Banker time

The banker says Tom was awarded an MBE in 1991, and he has huge admiration for him. He says he spied on Tom doing some early-morning swimming this morning, and Tom did a Buddha pose to a relief Buddha that's on the wall!

Banker's offer:

£700

Tom says it's an amazing offer!

Tom says

NO DEAL

Noel calls a break...

Interesting system, shame it's not wroking at the moment.

We're back

Round 2

Noel says Tom would like to raise money for military charities, which the banker will hate.

18 - Jayne - £100,000

19 - Bill -50p

Tom says Bill was involved in the Falklands campaign, and he got sunk on the first day!

13 - Brenda - 10p

Banker time

Tom says

NO DEAL

Round 3

Tom talks about the various places he visited during his career, including how he was there when the Berlin wall came down.

16 - Guy - £5

Tom says 22 was his best age, and Noel asks why. Tom says it was the age he had sex for the first time! The banker rings and asks if Noel knows how to avoid being scarred for life by Tom's comment!

22 - Aideen - £500

Noel calls a break...

"I think it was the first time I had sex" AWKWARD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We're back

Last box before the Banker

Noel says just before the break, Tom told us when he had his first jump.

10 - Adam - £250

Banker time

The banker says we've all had mental injuries today!

Banker's offer:

£4,500

Tom asks Guy what he thinks, and he says there's another round in it, and Karl agrees.

Tom says

NO DEAL

Round 4

Tom says Cheryl had 4 big sausages on her plate one morning, and then ate them all!

8 - Cheryl - £3,000

21 - Lynn - £35,000

5 - Norma - £5,000

Banker time

Finally, it's back...

what was the cause of the downtime?

Ah, we're back!

Shame that Tom had such a bad game; he was a great guy who provided much hilarity on the wings, but he took it very well in his stride, and that is commendable. All the best to him.