Golden Balls - £100,000 Split Or Steal? 14/03/08

How long before the person that gets robbed literally stangles the other one to death?

Okay, this is serious, life changing money.

The jackpot today is 100,150 pounds.

You have one final decision to make.

Easy decision.

We're now going to play split or steal.

[Applause]

I know you're the last two people in
the country I have to explain this to,

but you have two final golden balls.

You each have a golden ball
with the word split written inside.

You each have a golden ball
with the word steal written inside.

You will make a conscious choice of
choosing the split or the steal ball.

If you both choose the
split ball, you split today's

jackpot of a 100,150 pounds and
you go home with 50,075 pounds.

[Applause]

If one of you splits and one of you steals,
whoever choose the steal ball will go

home with 100,150 pounds.

The person who chooses the
split ball goes home with nothing.

If you both choose the steal
ball you go home with nothing.

Okay, before I ask you to choose, I want
you to look at your two golden balls

and make sure you know which is
the split ball and which is the steal ball.

This is very important.

Make sure you don't show each other.

Before I ask you to choose, I think you
have some talking to do to each other.

Steven, I just hope they weren't puppy
dog tears and they were real tears and

you are genuinely going to split that money.

I am going to split this.

That's just -- 50,000, it's
unbelievable.

I'm very, very happy to
go home with 50,000.

You're definitely going
to split this money.

If I stole off you every single person
there would run over here and lynch me.

There's no way I could -- I mean everyone
who knew me would just be disgusted if I stole.

When people watch this,
they're not going to believe it.

Please.

I look you straight in the--

Sarah, I can look you straight in the
eye and tell you I am going to split.

- Promise.
- I swear to you I am going to split.

Okay, this is serious money.

It is.

Sarah, Steve, choose either
the split or steal ball now.

Hold it up.

We're going home with 50
grand each, I promise you that.

Split or steal?

[Audience surprise]

You never know what's coming in this game.

Congratulations Sarah, you have
just won 100,150 pounds.

Steven, I'm so sorry.

Commiserations, you've lost.

Okay, so, an unfamiliar feeling for one of you,
but a horribly familiar feeling for the other.

This has been Golden Balls.

Until next time, goodbye.

Golden Balls has taught me that some
people look for revenge quite easily,

and greed obviously knows no bounds.

When Steven revealed the
split ball I wasn't proud.

I didn't feel happy about what I'd done,

but having been stabbed in the back last
time I just couldn't put myself through it again.