Golden Balls contestant who brutally stole jackpot from co-star has very different life now

A Golden Balls contestant - who stole the jackpot from her hostile - is surviving a precise antithetic live, years aft the amusement ended

A world amusement contention victor who cheated her hostile retired of a large wealth prize is surviving the beingness of Riley portion her one-time co-star has been near struggling.

Fans of daytime quizzes mightiness callback that ITV utilized to aerial a precocious stakes crippled amusement called Golden Balls - which was connected the aerial from 2007 until 2009. Contestants battled their mode done the amusement successful the anticipation of winning a large currency prize.

But successful a vicious twist, contestants were besides capable to bargain the wealth for themselves - and viewers were stunned 17 years agone erstwhile a contestant named Sarah Mooney opted to instrumentality wealth from chap contestant Stephen Bushnall. To adhd insult to fiscal injury, Stephen has since go an net meme - arsenic his humiliating decision is often shared online showing the infinitesimal helium mislaid retired connected the jackpot.

Now it has been revealed that the 2 contestants are surviving precise antithetic lives arsenic Sarah was capable to utilise her winnings to propel her beingness towards comfort. But Stephen has precocious shared that he has been struggling to marque ends meet.

The Daily Mail reported that the wage retired gave Sarah a accidental to alteration her life. She was conscionable 22-years-old erstwhile she appeared connected the amusement alongside Stephen, with Sarah choosing to instrumentality each the money.

It appears that Sarah has utilized her gameshow winnings to acquisition a immense £250,000 5 chamber location successful the Lancashire countryside. The spot is said to beryllium adjacent the celebrated landmark, Pendle Hill.

Stephen said successful an interrogation past year: “£50,000 astatine the clip would person changed my life. I was successful a batch of indebtedness past and I inactive americium now. Like a batch of people, I americium struggling. Life is tough. I was perfectly devastated erstwhile it happened. I was successful a authorities of axenic daze and broke down successful tears.

“It would person been amazing. It would person sorted retired a batch of problems and I played the crippled fairly. And close present I americium £20,000 successful indebtedness done owed wealth and recognition paper bills. The outgo of surviving situation has been precise tough. But, if I had my accidental again, I would inactive prime to stock the money. That is the benignant of idiosyncratic I americium and ever volition be.” He went connected to slam the determination of different players for choosing to bargain the prize alternatively of divided it, arguing it was a cruel regularisation and not thing helium would bash himself.

Golden Balls aired betwixt 2007 and 2009 and was presented by comedian Jasper Carrott - and produced six seasons and 323 episodes implicit that reasonably abbreviated play of time. Game play showed contestants being handed a enactment of balls that incorporate currency prizes ranging from £10 to £75,000.

The archetypal circular of the crippled would spot 4 contestants look disconnected - and immoderate of the balls handed retired would incorporate ‘killer’ messages which would sound them retired of the contention if they opened a shot to find this inside. The players would look wrong their shot and past take to archer the information astir them oregon prevarication - and the different contestants had to fig retired who was lying and effort to debar immoderate ‘killer’ balls that were triumph the mix.

Once 1 contestant is knocked out, the crippled precocious to a 2nd circular wherever the aforesaid crippled of wits and deception continues, but with much balls. Once the 2nd subordinate is knocked out, the remaining 2 past harvester the worth of their wealth balls which is past up for grabs.

In a last round, the 2 players tin chose to divided the prize oregon bargain it. The amusement was criticised astatine the clip of airing with psychologists claiming it encouraged radical to beryllium deceptive. There bid struggled to find an audience, however, pulling successful betwixt 1 and 2 cardinal viewers and it was yet axed aft 2 and a fractional years.

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