The Banker has at all times been a mysterious determine within the beloved British recreation present Deal or No Deal.
By no means listening to him or seeing his face, the one individuals who made contact with the voice on the opposite finish of the phone line was former host Noel Edmonds and the contestants.
Being credited solely as “Himself” on the finish of the present, the true id has been a thriller for 20 years.
However it might now be revealed that the voice behind the deal-broking Banker was truly Coronation Street star Glenn Hugill.
Hugill was the primary ever Banker within the Channel 4 collection, which aired between 2005 and 2016.
A distinct unknown Banker has since overtaken Stephen Mulhern’s 2023 revival of the present.
Hugill is greatest identified for enjoying detective Alan McKenna on Coronation Road from 1996 to 1997, starring in 86 episodes in whole.
Whereas he solely had a brief stint on the cleaning soap, he went on to seem in different exhibits, together with Dalziel and Pascoe, The Higher Hand, and Chandler and Co. In 2001, he additionally introduced the British model of the fact TV collection The Mole.
Behind the digital camera, Hugill had his personal manufacturing firm named Possessed. In 2023, he bought it to ITV and joined Wheelhouse, the media large established by Jimmy Kimmel.
Most importantly, he was additionally an government producer on Deal or No Deal which might be how he bagged the Banker position. A proven fact that left some followers upset by the reveal.
It stays unknown who took over from Hugill because the Banker, however it’s believed he stayed within the position for a yr.
Even Stephen Mulhern, who hosts the rebooted model, doesn’t know the present Banker’s id. He mentioned: “I don’t know who the Banker is, so I wouldn’t be capable of recognise who it was.”
Mulhern added that the voice on the telephone is “male” however that’s all he is aware of. “Supposedly, he goes into the resort and listens to the contestants and what they’re as much as. So when he comes on the telephone to me, I’ve obtained to repeat what he says.”
In 2006, Edmonds denied the rumours that Hugill was the Banker. Whereas followers are solely now realising who the Banker is, former Pointless host Richard Osman let slip his id to the Metro again in 2015.
Discussing his BBC recreation present Two Tribes, which ran from 2014 to 2015, Osman mentioned: “It was an concept that Glenn Hugill – the Banker on Deal or No Deal – and I had been eager about for a very long time.”
Hugill by no means addressed the rumours, however it was beforehand implied that Edmonds, the present’s former host, was buddies with whoever the Banker was.
