Red or Black Game Show first unsuccessful spin

Producers of the Red or Black game show on  ITV have dropped 3 contestants after further background checks into their past following the controvercy over the first Million Quid winner Nathan Hageman’s history which came out after the show.

The remaining programmes will go ahead, but some episodes will have a reduced number of contestants.

The show, presented by duo Ant and Dec, is running all this week on ITV1.

ITV had initially announced on Wednesday afternoon that two contestants would be dropped from the show, however a third was pulled from Wednesday night’s show just before broadcast.

The programme was the first to air with seven, rather than eight contestants.

Earlier, an ITV spokesman had said: “ITV has reviewed the background checks on remaining contestants from Red or Black?

“I’m not sure that production companies will routinely do criminal records checks”

“As a result of this we have asked producers to remove two contestants from this week’s shows.”

Red Or Black? is a co-production between ITV Studios and Simon Cowell’s production company, Syco.

The spokesman said all parties were “working closely and collaboratively together to ensure that the show continues its success”.

Moral of the story people…keep it clean and keep it real! You just never know when your past will come back to haunt you!

What colour will you choose…Red or Black?