Deal or No Deal winner hasn’t seen a penny after ITV reboot’s biggest win ever

Deal oregon No Deal victor Nay Nay is inactive ‘lost for words’ aft banking £75,000 the ITV reboot’s biggest triumph ever.

However, the paralegal, from Hackney, London, told Metro she can’t commencement spending yet arsenic she has not been paid the jackpot.

Nay Nay has respective weeks to decently program however to splash the currency arsenic the prize wealth is expected to onshore successful her relationship successful March.

The hold is nary fuss to the record-breaking subordinate who is inactive reeling aft watching her occurrence past nighttime with family.

‘All the emotions came back,’ she says. ‘I started crying again erstwhile I was watching it, conscionable due to the fact that it’s a life-changing magnitude of money.’

When Nay Nay joined the amusement presented by Stephen Mulhern – it took her astir 27 games to beryllium selected – she had nary program different than to marque it to the end.

‘My strategy was my faith,’ she tells us. ‘I knew I was going to the extremity truthful my main happening is I wanted to guarantee that I had fun, which I decidedly did.

‘I mean, my crippled was truthful fun. I retrieve screaming, crying, laughing, and it was conscionable amazing.’

She besides does not consciousness shortchanged that the jackpot has been cut by £150,000 since moving to ITV successful 2023 from Channel 4 – wherever it was presented by Noel Edmonds.

Previous contestants could instrumentality location up to £250,000 earlier the amusement was axed by its erstwhile home aft 11 years successful 2016.

Today, that prize should beryllium astir £379,525 if it were successful enactment with ostentation according to an online calculator from fiscal services institution Hargreaves Lansdown.

But Nay Nay is ‘absolutely not’ disappointed by the downsized jackpot. ‘When I went connected the amusement it was much than conscionable astir the money,’ she explains.

‘For me, it was conscionable astir pursuing faith, having a caller acquisition and gathering the radical that I would person ne'er met before. I’ve met immoderate friends for life; we’re each going to spell connected vacation together.

‘The acquisition is much than wealth tin buy. The wealth is conscionable a bonus.’

Since past night, Nay Nay says her telephone has been ‘blowing up’ and she has been ‘crying tears of joy’ implicit supportive messages. One successful peculiar resonated.

‘It truly stood retired to me, and I virtually started crying,’ Nay Nay explains.

‘The connection was from was an aged woman and she said she was a grandma herself, and she saw my grandma connected the TV, and she was conscionable watching my crippled unsocial and said it restored her faith.

‘That conscionable made maine truthful happy: to animate idiosyncratic by being yourself and by having faith.’

As for her winnings, Nay Nay has vowed not to ‘squander’ the £75,000 and alternatively volition dainty her grandma to a spa day, donate 10% to her religion and usage the remainder for a location deposit.

Deal oregon No Deal is disposable to watercourse connected ITVX.

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