Big deal as TV gamble lands �250k

Alice Munday faced opening a box containing �250,000 - or just 1p

A student who has became only the second �250,000 jackpot winner on the television game show Deal or No Deal says it has changed her life.

Trainee stuntwoman Alice Munday, 21, from Monmouthshire, had a nail-biting choice between boxes containing 1p or �250,000 in the Channel 4 show.

She won after gambling her earlier winnings of �17,500 to take an all-or-nothing offer to chase the top prize.

She said she was going to use the money for a "massive blow-out" on shopping.

She also said she would use some of the money to speed up the training process to become a stuntwoman; something in which she has been engaged for the past two-and-a-half years.

"Deal or No Deal is probably going to be the biggest day of my life, isn't it?" she said.

"12 March - that's when my life changed and I'm not going to look back.

"I'm just going to go for it and just have the best time of my life. I can't believe it.

Deal or No Deal is probably going to be the biggest day of my life, isn't it?

Alice Munday

"I think the first thing I'm going to do with the money [is a] massive blow-out, clothes blow-out with my sisters and just go and spend a grand on clothes...

"It's just what it can mean to me and my family and friends. I'm going to enjoy spending it but it's not going to change me as a person."

Coincidentally, Laura Pearce, the first person to collect the top prize of the game show was also from Monmouthshire.

The show's behind-the-scenes banker figure referred to the previous Welsh winner during the show as Ms Munday had a successful opening round.

Talking to the show's host Noel Edmonds, the banker, who is never seen on the programme, said that he found Ms Munday to be a "gorgeous, brave and feisty Welsh woman".

Alice gambled �17,500 she had already won to get the top prize

"I have had trouble with them in the past," he added.

Ms Munday had initially accepted the banker's offer of a �17,500 deal at the end of the fourth round.

That normally spells the end of the show for the contestant, who always then plays out the rest of the game as if they had not dealt.

But when Ms Munday was left with just unopened two boxes, they were for the lowest and highest prizes: 1p and �250,000.

Highly unusually, the banker offered her a gamble - to trade in her �17,500 winnings and to open one of the boxes, which would have left her with either a cool quarter of a million pounds or a penny.

She took the risk - and also refused the offer to swap the box on her table.

She chose correctly, and after the �250,000 was revealed, she was was mobbed by her fellow contestants and received a standing ovation in the studio.

Ms Munday said: "The whole experience has just been the best thing, I can't explain to anyone unless who is thinking of applying, just do it.

"Honestly, every single person is the loveliest. So you literally just got to do it and you're going to meet some great friends - lifetime friends and you just won't forget - do it!"