Can I say before we start that I've not seen the spoilers for this game and don't want that ruined in this thread?

Oh, we see the board halfway through anyway in the introductory clip. Yeah, well done producers for that. Well done.

The crowd are the noisiest I've ever heard. I'm glad I wasn't a pilgrim for this.

Noel emphasises the honesty of this show - "we can't make tasks easier, we can't make questions simpler, we can't do anything, because this is a random game." We've had celebrity blue wins, after all, including one from an X-Factor runner-up.

Which, of course, is what we've got here. Except there's four, because it's a group.

Obligatory VT clip, and they've got audience in the holding area cheering too apparently.

*wonder what the two box end will be*

Can we have those screens in the wings as permanent set fixtures already?

Three of JLS - Aston, JB, and Marvin - walk in at first. "Where's Ringo?", asks the Banker. Oritse came up separately... and it ran out of fuel. Apparently he would forget his own head if he didn't wear his hat?

Marvin's a big fan. He used to rush home to see Countdown for the eye candy of Carol Vorderman, and of course that used to be the DoND leadout.

We see the ball selection in a transparent bowl, and it's box 14, bought over by Tom, who was the best man at Marvin's wedding. Or one of their weddings, anyway.

Game on! Without Oritse!

Well we all know they wasn't going to win the £250,000...

Well we won't be having the first Celeb QM today.

"75% of JLS - good luck!"

We know how this is going to start. Oh, OK, we don't know in non-gameplay terms, the Banker phones up. The audience are "in the studio next door". I've been in the holding area for long enough to know it's not the holding area they're in.

AND THERE'S ORITSE!

"We now know what the L in JLS stands for!" The screens show "JLATES"! Again, can we have those screens in permanently?

Box 5 (Mike, their barber) - £250

I've just realised Oritse might be the first player to do the walk of wealth with the board up.

Box 13 (Ayishat) - £5

They're taking it in turns to pick boxes.

Box 1 (Charlie) - £250,000!

Mutual shock all round. Aston talks up the £100k.

Box 10 (Alice) - 10p

They actually bother to use the telly behind the East Wing for this.

Box 4 (missed) - 1p!

Banker time.

Banker calls the wings the most stylish ever, and jokes about Charlie.

Banker's offer:

£6,000 + tank of diesel!

Stats after Round 1
Offer: £6,000
Mean: £18,553.62
Fair Deal: £8,785.95
Volatility: 0.46
Board total: £315,411.50

Board
50p
£1

£10
£50
£100

£500
£750
£1,000
£3,000
£5,000
£10,000
£15,000
£20,000
£35,000
£50,000
£75,000
£100,000

Mark, we do know the trailers have given away a lot, and that you like most of us have seen the final two boxes, so you dont need to keep hinting you have seen!!

Marvin knows there's not been a 17-box Deal...and this is no exception. NO DEAL.

We'll find out about their charity when we come back.

In fairness, you could have tuned in two minutes late and seen the partial spoiler of the mid-game board without the £250k. I don't know the finish, but I knew the £250k was going early because of that trailer!

Anyway, apparently it is the audience holding area that's the overflow "JLS Fan Zone" for this. It didn't look it from the angle I saw.

Actually they WERE in the holding area!!

We're back. There's product placement in this apparently, I've not seen it.

Charity is their foundation, which they set up in 2009 and currently focused on helping childrens' cancer. Zoe, the head of the foundation, is on the wings for this one. Noel praises their commitment for setting up the charity. We know they won't emulate Mo Farah, who won £250k for his foundation inside the Cube, but...

Box 11 (Evan) - £50
The stability continues. The Fan Zone go loopy.

JB calls for...
Box 21 (Sam) - £100
That's six blues... and the quarter-million. Where's the US board when you need it?

Box 8 (tour manager Steve, who blames Oritsé for driving himself!) - £20,000
The audience groaned. Noel got them cheering.

Banker time.

No idea why everyone groaned at £20,000.

The Banker also wanted to be a pop star. Cue bad jokes based on JLS song titles. His three-letter abbreviation: "NOB" for "Number One Banker" - he didn't have a hit because "your NOB wasn't big enough." Groan.

Banker's offer:

£10,000

Just like today's show, a very nice non-£250k board at this stage of the game.

Stats after Round 2
Offer: £10,000
Mean: £21,090.11
Fair Deal: £10,505.89
Volatility: 0.51
Board total: £295,261.50

Board
50p
£1

£10



£500
£750
£1,000
£3,000
£5,000
£10,000
£15,000

£35,000
£50,000
£75,000
£100,000

"That is a very big second offer," says Noel, in a week where it's been almost atypically low.

NO DEAL instantly. Marvin takes a quick Banker call...

The phone's passed along. Here comes the Aston backflip we saw in the trailer. The promise is that it'll get them "serious offers".

"Why are you [JB] negotiating on Aston's behalf?" asks Noel. "It's what he's been doing for six years."

Anyway, Aston's on the phone now and agrees to the backflip. "Can you do backflips?" asks Aston to Noel

If Aston does a backflip, Noel will!! :O

Aston goes first as Noel's "got the wrong shoes on".

Two backflips and a back tuck... yup, he nailed that

Noel gets the loudest reaction I've ever heard... and builds it up over a break

This is hilarious!

Noel so should have done this.

Oh come on, people still believe in that Death Box rubbish?