Anthony's game today.

Noel says it's traditionally a battle between the banker and the player, but Tanya yesterday brought a new level of pugilism, as she came out with an attitude and hacked off the sound and lighting directors! Noel warns the audience that today's player might pick on them!

At long last it's Anthony...

Anthony has box 17.

Anthony works for a beverage company and has his wife in the audience today. He says he loves his job as he drives around and meets lots of people, and gets to spend lots of time with his family. He shows a pic of his young sons playing football, and he has a war badge with him which belonged to his wife's great grandfather, and a bullet hit him but the badge stopped it doing any harm to his body!

Here we go...

Round 1

Anthony gets everyone to do a Mexican wave as a warm-up. He has a system but isn't revealing what it is just yet.

16 - Fi - £35,000

21 - Suzanne - 50p

Noel reckons Anthony is starting with the Irish players first.

19 - Roy - £100,000

1 - Michael - £1

Michael says Anthony's jumper looks like the wallpaper in a mental home! Noel says Michael's just offended loads of people, so he chucks him out of the studio.

22 - Toby - £15,000

Banker time

The banker commends Noel for chucking Michael out of the studio, and we get to see a shot of Michael freezing outside!

Banker's offer:

£5,000

Anthony says

NO DEAL

Noel calls a break...

We're back

Round 2

Noel says Anthony wants to build an extension on their house, and he also owes his wife a car, as he sold her car and replaced it with a cheaper and older model! Noel also reminds everyone that Anthony gave his wife a handbag as a gift, and he'd won it as a prize. The banker rings and says Anthony has a cruel streak and would make a good banker.

3 - Gillian - £50

Noel realises Anthony has gone along the west wing, and has skipped Ron and Ziggy.

8 - Elaine - £20,000

Elaine talks about a sock, and the banker calls and tells Noel what he thinks is happening, and Noel writes his thoughts in the book.

18 - Abbey - 1p

Abbey talks about bacon, and Noel says the banker's right.

Banker time

The banker makes fun of how unsubtle Elaine was with mentioning a sock!

Banker's offer:

£8,750

Sounds like a really crazy system here...

And here's another multiple of £250...

Noel says the banker reckons everyone's got pre-planned words that they have to say, and Anthony says they're just offering support! The banker rings and gets Michael to come back in, and says what an unusually cold April it is! He says Michael has to go back outside, unless he tells everyone why he spoke about wallpaper when he opened his box. Michael doesn't say, so he leaves again.

Michael says

NO DEAL

Round 3

13 - Becks??? - £250,000

10 - Wilf - £5

Noel calls a break.

We're back

Last box before the Banker

Noel says he can't work out Anthony's system and the random words that keep being mentioned.

20 - Sarah - £10,000

Sarah mentions a pillow!

Banker time

Anthony says he'd like to take his kids to Disneyland.

Anthony says

NO DEAL


Round 4

15 - Kerry - 10p

11 - newbie Lucy - £750

Noel says Lucy's very bossy.

2 - Iain - £75,000

Banker time


The banker says that round stunk.

Banker's offer:

£900

Crazy systems and Michael's remarks aside, this really hasn't been the most spectacular game so far...

Anthony asks for advice from his wife.

Anthony says

NO DEAL

Has the forum wobbled for you as well H?

Yes, I had to continue the commentary in Notepad, hence the lack of colours. I'll go back and edit them in now...

We're back

Round 5

5 - Harry - £500

Anthony says his system has been to miss out some numbers as he wants to keep them.

7 - Ron - £1,000

Ron comes out with a fact about buzzards!

4 - Debs - £100

Banker time