It's 2015, not far from 10 exact years since the appearance of DOND's greatest ever contestant. Here are some reasons as to why he has earned his legacy:

- ''Started the game by claiming he was ''so angry'' and that he was going to give Glenn 'The Banker' Hugill a lesson.

- Played the game as it SHOULD only be played, sitting still and calling out numbers with not a second wasted on anything other than the basic game mechanics. No dwell time, no faze, nothing. Just business.

- The first contestant to ask Noel for the question. Rather than listening to orders, he GAVE orders.

- He was the first contestant to be forthright with The Banker, with choice quotes being ''He could have pushed 6 (grand)'' and ''(that offer is) insulting''. Indeed one of the few contestants to basically acknowledge him as nothing at all/one of the crew. At one point he all but barked orders.

- His stoniness was only broken by a deeply sarcastic ''YEEEESSSS!!' when a not insignificant red amount went. That was his only show of emotion until the fifth offer and it was still to befuddle everyone involved.

- Once dealing, he pretends he knows where the large amounts are and cockily points to the boxes. Once he's proven right, an amazed (and subtly irritated) Noel asks him ''If you KNEW where they were, they did you deal?''...

- ...''I didn't know where they were! It's random!!''

- He seemed to genuinely rattle Noel and create a brilliantly unique atmosphere that's never been replicated.

- Despite him playing in November 2005, he STILL remains the show's greatest contestant despite 10 years of history occurring in the meantime.

ANDY K 'TIL I DIE

Here is that very moment from his game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmsXpkDoDkM (not sure why there are so many dislikes )

There was also that bit in 120k Jennifer's game where Andy Kelly, in the middle of the last round where she still faced the chance of removing the two largest reds, disregarded the unbelievable and unprecedented tension by chirpily spouting ''10p. Say it to me!'', prompting Noel to bark the order ''Andy - open it!''.

He whacked the box open and it was indeed the 10p, securing Jennifer of at least one huge sum remaining thus removing much of the tension. Just WHAT if he'd had the £250k, it's incredible how he played things up at such a point in the game.

Regarding his behaviour in his game, he's easily the closest you can get to a non-fan as is possible, he seemingly must have appeared just to add to his game show CV and must have realised the magnitude of the nonsense that the show throws in at every corner within his first day.

SEX

Now I've grabbed your attention, please add yourself to this membership list, which I have copied over from the original fan club (created in 2006):

Jeremy Kyle's Dad (nowadays trading as TheDontCareBear)
The Warlord
Clare27 (?)
ME, ME! ME! ME!

Come on, this is an insulting turn out.

I'll join Andy Kelly was a legend.

Lovey stuff, David.

So, the membership currently stands like this:

Jeremy Kyle's Dad (nowadays trading as TheDontCareBear)
The Warlord
Clare27 (?)
ME!
Davao

Which is still piss poor, but better than before.

Come on, pull your fingers out! What we need is...

Count me in! The "IT'S RANDOM" part was absolute TV GOLD!

Lovey stuff, BS.

So, the membership currently stands like this:

Jeremy Kyle's Dad (nowadays trading as TheDontCareBear)
The Warlord
Clare27 (?)
ME!
Davao
BankerSpanker

Which is even better than before, but still piss poor.

Come on, pull your fingers out! What we need is...

ME! I'll gladly join the club.

Jeremy Kyle's Dad (nowadays trading as TheDontCareBear)
The Warlord
Clare27 (?)
ME!
Davao
BankerSpanker
American Coupon Boy

It's good, very good, but the Pat M fanclub has over 120 members. If we're going to surpass that, this club needs to be... 3x bigger than this.

Jeremy Kyle's Dad (nowadays trading as TheDontCareBear)
The Warlord
Clare27 (?)
ME!
Davao
BankerSpanker
American Coupon Boy
Hogwild94

Thank you, Hog.

Eight is great.

208 would be great...er.

I'd normally dislike a player for coming across as being arrogant or aggressive, but I admire Andy for the way he handled his game

He wasnt afraid to speak his mind and did things completely his way. He didnt play the annoying charade that most players now seem to have been told to play, none of this "it's a good offer" nonsense, no dithering for 10 minutes over offers that were poor for the board, he recognised an offer that was poor for the board by saying it was an insult, he just called out numbers with a stony face and there was none of this codswallop over opening one box (as soon as one box was opened, Andy wasted no time in moving onto the next box. Best part was when he found the £250k in the first box, and he just shook his head and was like "yeah, whatever, next box please!")

Jeremy Kyle's Dad (nowadays trading as TheDontCareBear)
The Warlord
Clare27 (?)
ME!
Davao
BankerSpanker
American Coupon Boy
Hogwild94
JamesJMH91

Better than bad, it's good!

Andy's been on the forum a few times and actually posted this about his game, when he was asked about the impact other game results had on him:



I'm wondering if this was an influence on his attitude when he was in the chair. There was clearly more to it than it might have seemed.

Count me in for the fan club membership either way!

That is enlightening, very much so in fact! Perhaps he was a bit pissed to be playing so relatively early, though with it being so early in the show's life, was the 'experience, guys!' aspect as established as it would become later on? I'd have thought that a short run in those days was probably not a big deal, indeed it was still unknown whether the show would run beyond the start of 2006!

I'd still like to believe that he was always going to play the game as completely straight as he did, just without the ''I'll beat him and eat him!'' aspect.

This fan club has the royal seal of approval. Je suis Dan - et je suis IN!

Jeremy Kyle's Dad (nowadays trading as TheDontCareBear)
The Warlord
Clare27 (?)
ME!
Davao
BankerSpanker
American Coupon Boy
Hogwild94
JamesJMH91
Brick
Daniel123

Eleven - I think that's enough!

Sadly that doesn't work for Skyline

I'd say it works for me, but then, that depends on the, you know, the logistics, the specifics of the matter - sex by whom, with whom, for what - or indeed, whose - sake?

To quote Stevie Riks, 'a gay chap who lived in Khartoum/took a lesbian up to his room/they argued all night about who had the right to do what, and with which, and to whom...'

Look, guys, if you want to set up a 'sex' thread, by all means do so.

THIS one's for appreciation of Andy Kelly. Him and SEX being mentioned in the same thread would unnerve him should he ever find this website again.