The WORST episodes of The Real Hustle
Every episode of The Real Hustle ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of The Real Hustle!
The Real Hustle is a BBC television series made by Objective Productions and written by Alexis Conran and Paul Wilson. The show demonstrates confidence and magic tricks, distraction scams and proposition bets performed on members of the public by Conran and Wilson with "sexy swindler" Jessica-Jane Clement. From series 10, entitled "New Recruits", Jazz Lintott and Polly Parsons joined the hustlers.
#1 - New Recruits, Episode 10
Season 10 - Episode 10 - Aired 1/20/2012
Actress Adele Silva helps the hustlers in a scam which involves the Forth Railway Bridge
#2 - On Holiday, Episode 4
Season 7 - Episode 4 - Aired 6/11/2009
The team pay a cheque (which will bounce) to hire a boat, then ask for some of the money back in cash (The Boat Hire Scam); Angellica Bell is challenged by Jess to pick up a piece of paper placed on her feet while standing against a wall (Celebrity Con Games); Alex acts drunk in a bar in order to pick pockets (The Pushout); Paul challenges some people in a bar to stand a matchbox upright using one finger (Proposition Bets); and Alex demonstrates how wearing a high visibility jacket allows him to steal a hire car under the noses of the people who just hired it (Gone in 600 Seconds).
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#3 - On Holiday, Episode 5
Season 7 - Episode 5 - Aired 6/18/2009
Alex and Jess sell some carpets from a market, but out of sight wrap up a cheap mat instead (The Wrap Up); Alex challenges someone in a bar to place coins on a napkin without overlapping the edge (Proposition Bets); Paul takes money from tourists by pretending to provide taxis at a discount rate (The Black Cab Con); Toby Anstis is given a challenge by Paul involving frying pans (Celebrity Con Games); and the team advertise a fake nightclub and take the entrance fee from the people queuing up (The Club Night Con).
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#4 - On Holiday, Episode 6
Season 7 - Episode 6 - Aired 6/25/2009
Paul offers to take photos of tourists using their own camera, but then the camera gets swiped by Jess and Alex (The Helpful Stranger); Iwan Thomas is given a challenge by Paul involving drinks bottles (Celebrity Con Games); Alex poses as a hotel manager to get guests' key cards from them (The Hotel Room Rip-Off); Jess challenges someone in a bar to float a cork in the centre of a glass of water with it drifting to the edge (Proposition Bets); and the team offer a free locker service in a busy shopping centre, then take all the lockers away complete with their contents (The Lock-Up).
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#5 - On Holiday, Episode 7
Season 7 - Episode 7 - Aired 7/2/2009
Alex uses sleight of hand to swap keys for a left luggage locker to later steal its contents (The Bus Station Steal); Michael Underwood is challenged by Jess to knock over a golf tee on a pool table (Celebrity Con Games); Jess uses a pushy attitude to force 'lucky heather' on people in the street, but is actually picking their pockets (The Unlucky Heather Hustle); Paul bets that he can get over a hundred drops of wine out of a drained wine bottle (Proposition Bets); and Paul and Jess sell stolen theatre tickets to people in a bar (We Will We Will Rob You Scam).
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#6 - On Holiday, Episode 8
Season 7 - Episode 8 - Aired 7/9/2009
The team manufacture fake international phone cards that use premium rate phone lines (The Phone Home Hustle); Lisa Maffia is challenged to fold a large sheet of paper in half more than eight times (Celebrity Con Games); Paul poses as a car park attendant to sell bogus parking tickets to tourists (Superpass); Alex demonstrates how to put a balloon in a flame without it bursting (Proposition Bets); and Jess shows how giving a cheap gift to some people renting a holiday cottage helps her obtain £200 from them as a so-called deposit (The Gift Basket Con).
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#7 - On Holiday, Episode 9
Season 7 - Episode 9 - Aired 7/16/2009
Paul demonstrates how easy it is to switch a genuine bank note with a fake one (The Counterfeit Con); Alex rotates a glass twice in his hand without relaxing his grip (Proposition Bets); Jess steals the car from some people who help her change a tyre (The Good Samaritan Scam); Liz McClarnon is challenged to stand a bottle upright using a fork (Celebrity Con Games); and Alex and Jess never quite let marks win the big prizes in a fairground game (Lucky Tickets).
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#8 - On Holiday, Episode 10
Season 7 - Episode 10 - Aired 7/23/2009
Paul poses as a hotel bellboy to relieve some guests of their bags (The Hotel Check Out); Joel Beckett is challenged to knock a coin balanced on a pool ball outside a circle (Celebrity Con Games); Paul and Jess run a fairground game that you can never win (Razzle Dazzle); and Jess wins a bar bet using Möbius strips (Proposition Bets).
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#9 - Undercover, Episode 3
Season 8 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/28/2010
Jess becomes a pregnant woman to get peoples attention when she's clumsy while Paul swoops in and steals their bag. Alex then returns the bag but their mobile phones are missing which becomes something much bigger and this week model Caprice takes part in conning the public but will she pull it off?
#10 - Undercover, Episode 4
Season 8 - Episode 4 - Aired 2/4/2010
A sofa becomes a antique dealer's worst nightmare when one is delivered with a certain con-woman hidden inside and a missing dog means becomes lost cash for one woman. Plus this week Danielle Lloyd takes part in Celebrity Hustle.
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#11 - Undercover, Episode 5
Season 8 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/4/2010
Some pirate DVD's lead to a hefty fine for some people and the gang set up a recruitment office for some members of the public to try and become a mystery shopper. Plus in this episode Iain Lee is taking part in the hustles.
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#13 - Undercover, Episode 7
Season 8 - Episode 7 - Aired 2/11/2010
A text message sent by Jess allows Paul and Alex to be handed the keys to a very expensive car. Plus two bottles of champagne make one customer at a bar a very expensive bill and model Lucy Pinder takes part in this weeks Celebrity Hustle
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#14 - Undercover, Episode 8
Season 8 - Episode 8 - Aired 2/18/2010
Jess scams a group of people saying that she could get them into a very exclusive club but it turns out that they won't be getting in. While Alex and Paul use a spray that blacks out a number plate when a flash hits it and Emma Willis takes part this week in a scam that wouldn't leave her hungry.
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#15 - Undercover, Episode 9
Season 8 - Episode 9 - Aired 2/25/2010
Paul and Alex make an ATM machine out of order to get control of a persons bank account so they can withdraw some money from their account without them knowing. While Jess becomes a fake waitress to steal a customers card details and pin number and musician Huey Morgan takes part in the scams this week.
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#16 - Undercover, Episode 10
Season 8 - Episode 10 - Aired 2/25/2010
In the final episode of this series Jess and Alex head to a restaurant for a meal but leave with several customers card details. While Alex gets paid for window cleaning without actually cleaning any and Rick Edwards takes part this time in Celebrity Hustle.
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Season 9 - Episode 2 - Aired 7/29/2010
Brendan Cole joins Alex, Jess and Paul in this episode and he has to show that Alex has been cheating in a card game to convince the marks to join in with a bet on a boxing match later in the day which Paul says he can rig in the marks favour. While Jess and Alex steal a car from a car dealership by previously researching the key to the car and then finding a similar key and tag and then swap the keys when Jess goes later.
#18 - Celebrity Scammers: Done and Dusted
Season 9 - Episode 6 - Aired 8/26/2010
Kelli Young joins the group this week and becomes a cleaner along with Jess to clean up a marks house who believes it will be featured in a magazine while Alex and Paul convince the mark to replace a picture on the wall with one that is meant to be worth £10,000 only for Kelli to then ruin the painting with a solvent and then get the mark to pay up some money for it. Also Jess and Paul become Tax-people and tell the marks they are due a big refund and get the marks to give them their bank account details and official identification.
#19 - Celebrity Scammers: The Inheritance
Season 9 - Episode 9 - Aired 9/17/2010
Actress Abi Titmuss poses as a lawyer to help persuade some marks that they have inherited a large amount of money (The Inheritance); Paul demonstrates a proposition bet involving a matchbox (Proposition Bets); and Alex and Paul pose as engineers to install a fake security system in a student house, but are really casing the joint and copying the keys so that they can later burgle it (The Scareware Scam).
#20 - New Recruits, Episode 4
Season 10 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/26/2011
Dance act Diversity's front man Ashley Banjo goes undercover in an art scam.
#21 - New Recruits, Episode 5
Season 10 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/3/2011
Crimewatch presenter Rav Wilding is a guest hustler in a scam involving gold chains.
#22 - New Recruits, Episode 7
Season 10 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/24/2011
Hollyoaks actress Sarah Jayne Dunn goes undercover with Alex in a scam involving luxury watches, and Paul poses as a security guard for a local shopping precinct.
#24 - Episode 1
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/7/2006
First in the new series sees the team conning a delivery man into giving them his goods, making a couple in a cafe buy an supposedly expensive plate after overhearing a phone conversation and getting someone to leave a deposit on a car before making off with the car and the cash.
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#25 - Las Vegas, Episode 6
Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired 3/10/2008
Alex, Jess and Paul con a father and his daughter into buying counterfeit casino chips, use ingenious techniques to pick the pockets of locals and con an unsuspecting girl into becoming an accomplice in a jewellery store robbery.
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