I'd dissagree Killerbee. Are you telling me you are either foolish enough or have have so much more money than sense that you'd be willing to throw away 17K on the 50:50 chance of winning 50K? I sure as hell don't.
Being one of her biggest fans far before the game I said she seemed genuinely nice, unassuming (in a good way of course) and had a lovely smile.
Therefore I can safely say I very much overhyped her game today (through absolutely no fault of her own may I add, after all she is extremely unassuming). After watching the game on C4 catch-up however I can honestly say Chelsea's game was best one I've ever seen it didn't disappoint my extremely high expectations producing a stormer!
Nobody can say Chelsea was not genuinely lovely!
: No-one. When she started her game by suggesting that she'd like to help her sick Nan buy her house you could see it was a completely genuine gesture. I said here’s a person who genuinely loves her family and genuinely wants to give back to a person who’s obviously given so much to her.
Chelsea spent far more parts of her game talking about other people, in her life and in the studio. She never for a second focused on herself or begrudged an attention her fellow contestants got (for example, Constance doing the 'come back after the break thing').
Chelsea didn't have a lovely smile, she had one of the most lovely contagious amazing smiles I've ever seen from anyone!
Anyway enough of my swooning, but I don't think I'm alone, did you see how Noel couldn't keep his hand off her? And I don't think I've ever seen him be nicer to a player ever!
To the game.As you can probably see from above I wanted Chelsea to do quite well to say the least. After her first round I thought Chelsea would have been lucky to leave with anything over
6k and I thought she'd be, at the least, absolutely devastated (I would be and let it show!).
Box 1 she takes out the
250k Chelsea's still smiling
Box 2:
20k She smiles on!
Box 5:
100K gone and she's still genuinely smiling and obviously happy to be there!!
R1: After round 1 Chelsea takes out 4 big reds (including the biggest 2), gets an offer of
£4.50 and is she one bit phased!? Not a chance!
If it had of been me I would have been much more like Arran
&
and went to pieces, Chelsea's 5 years younger than me and she completely takes it in her stride.
Round 2: Chelsea has a good round take's out
2 blues and the
1k gets an offer of
4.5k and coolly continues.
Round 3: Chelsea takes out 15k and 5K but continues smiling on. She gets a marginally better offer (
6.5k) which I thought was bound to be her best offer of the day but again Chelsea continues boldly on. Personally I might have cashed in here, Chelsea keeps smiling and keeps going!
And so begins the nail biking phase of the game.
Round 4: Chelsea takes out her highest box,
75K but remains cool calm and collected. At this stage she gets a decent enough offer of
4K which I'm urging her to take now but Chelsea no deals.
Round 5: I'm very on edge now willing an all-blue round so Chelsea's gamble'll pay off. It's not to be, Chelsea takes out her 2nd highest box
35K. Chelsea again gets a decent-ish offer of
5k.
Chelsea again is completely cool calm and collected and doesn't let any emotion show and does (what I imagine does at this point from what I saw on screen) was work out her odds. Now I'm on the edge of my seat begging Chelsea to take this offer (which was so close to her highest one in round 3) but Chelsea bravely no deals and more amazingly still genuinely smiles! I don’t know how she can do this as calmly as she did!
This is extremely gutsy and shows Chelsea came here to play. With only one big red left on the board (
50K) and only
3K as a back up the game’s very precarious.
If Chelsea had of taken out the
50K and left the
3K her next offer would have most likely been sub 1k or not much over it. This was more likely to happen than not happen and I’m sure Chelsea knew it.
If Chelsea had of taken out the
50K and the
3K the game would have been over.
Again her no deal was extremely gutsy!
Final round: I’m genuinely covering my eyes
: Chelsea takes out
£500, big cheer! Next box
3K, Chelsea doesn't blink, final box contains the
£1 and the crowd goes wild!
: leaving
50k and the
50p!
The banker offers
17K and Chelsea wisely deals showing that not only did she come to DOND to play but that she's not foolish. It makes no odds that Chelsea had the 50k, she knew when the right point to get out was. The only person who would have thrown
17K away at this point was either an eejit (or at best extremely gullable) or a person who can afford to throw away
17K which I would understand to be millionaires give that
17K is well over my previous year’s annual salary.
As I say I would have probably left at 6k or 5k and had a nervous breakdown in the process.
Well done Chelsea and I really hope you enjoy your winnings and your new drum kit!! Oh and I also hope you have music loving neighbours!
: Thanks for the great TV!
Most people will think I'm either at, best mad or more likely overly obsessive to write this essay which no one will probably read.. but I really genuinely loved this game and I thought Chelsea played it magnificently! I loved writing a blow by blow account of it because I was genuinely on the edge of my seat on throughout the game, especially in the last round. I really wanted this wonderful person to take way a substantial amount of money and I was so glad she did! And more than this I wrote it during the first half of the Ireland Cyprus world cup Qualifier (we're winning
1:0 by the way
very, very happy indeed!).