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The Worst Episodes of The Real Hustle

Every episode of The Real Hustle ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of The Real Hustle!

A team of hustlers - Alexis Conran, Paul Wilson and Jessica-Jane Clement, try out some notorious scams on ‘marks’, filmed with hidden cameras. The aim...
Genres:RealityCrime
Network:BBC Three

Worst Episodes Summary

"On Holiday, Episode 1" is the worst rated episode of "The Real Hustle". It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 5/21/2009. This episode scored NaN points lower than the second lowest rated, "On Holiday, Episode 2".

  • On Holiday, Episode 1
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    #1 - On Holiday, Episode 1

    Season 7 Episode 1 - Aired 5/21/2009

    Jess convinces a mark to take a teddy to her nephew in Liverpool, but it contains a surprise (The Teddy Bear Scam); Andi Peters is challenged by Alex to tear apart a phonebook faster than he can (Celebrity Con Games); Paul convinces a couple he is their taxi driver, but walks off with their luggage while they wait (The Airport Pick Up); and Jess challenges two guys in a bar to get water out of a bottle faster than she can (Proposition Bets).

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    #2 - On Holiday, Episode 2

    Season 7 Episode 2 - Aired 5/28/2009

    Alex and Jess helpfully direct some holidaymakers to a local car mechanic (Paul), who relieves them of their keys (The Oil Slick Scam); Mark Foster is challenged by Paul to lift five gold bricks with one hand (Celebrity Con Games); Alex and Paul pose as security alarm technicians so they can later burgle a house (The Silent Alarm Sting); Alex demonstrates how to open a bottle with a piece of paper (Proposition Bets); and the team use a fake exchange rate website as a convincer to make a couple part with their money (The Currency Swindle).

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    #3 - On Holiday, Episode 3

    Season 7 Episode 3 - Aired 6/4/2009

    Alex demonstrates social compliance by posing as a police officer to take some tourists' passports (The Passport Cool-Out); Christian O'Connell is challenged by Alex to lift a table without touching it (Celebrity Con Games); the hustlers install fake car parking signs to get people to pay by text message (The Seaside Parking Swindle); Jess challenges some people in a bar to make a knot in a tie without letting go of the ends (Proposition Bets); and Alex clones swipe-card keys in a hotel to later walk off with guests' possessions (The Swipe).

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    #4 - 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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    #5 - 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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    #6 - 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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    #7 - 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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    #8 - 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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    #9 - 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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    #10 - 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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    #11 - Undercover Episode 1

    Season 8 Episode 1 - Aired 1/14/2010

    The hustlers go shopping for expensive sports cars and drive away with their biggest pay day yet. Alex, Paul and Jess teach Danny Dyer the ropes as he becomes the first celebrity hustler, and Paul and Jess discover a miracle smoking cure that has punters queueing up to buy.

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    #12 - Undercover Episode 2

    Season 8 Episode 2 - Aired 1/21/2010

    The gang organize a charity raffle to get the guests money and then win the prizes themselves. Paul and Alex scam some people by making them think they are speeding and Emilia Fox is taking part this week to scam the public.

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    #13 - 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?

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    #14 - 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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    #15 - 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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    #16 - Episode 6

    Season 8 Episode 6 - Aired 2/11/2010

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    #17 - Undercover Episode 7

    Season 8 Episode 7 - Aired 2/18/2010

    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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    #18 - Undercover Episode 8

    Season 8 Episode 8 - Aired 2/25/2010

    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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    #19 - Episode 9

    Season 8 Episode 9 - Aired 3/4/2010

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    #20 - Undercover Episode 10

    Season 8 Episode 10 - Aired 3/11/2010

    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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  • Celebrity Scammers: The Jewellery Store Heist
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    #21 - Celebrity Scammers: The Jewellery Store Heist

    Season 9 Episode 1 - Aired 7/29/2010

    Matt Willis joins the regular gang of Alex, Jess and Paul to rob a jewellery store with a security disguise and and a couple of cameras which allows for them to get the alarm code and the keys for the front door. Jess infects a business man's laptop with a virus which locks out his computer and then Paul rings on a phone left nearby asking for money for the code to save all his files.

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    #22 - Celebrity Scammers: The Knockout

    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.

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    #23 - Celebrity Scammers: The Double Whammy

    Season 9 Episode 3 - Aired 8/5/2010

    Zöe Salmon joins the group this week as she and Alex decide to change the Vehicle Identification Number of a car that is going to be sold and they decide to take the money someone else paid for it and the car later. While Jess becomes a mystic and gives her customers a free reading but when turn out quite accurate they decide to give her money for the reading.

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    #24 - Celebrity Scammers: The Art Attack

    Season 9 Episode 4 - Aired 8/12/2010

    Lisa Snowdon joins the team this week to get some parks buy a cheap painting which they think is worth a lot more so they enter it into an auction hoping to get around £2000 but Paul gets them to bid to drive up the price. While Alex and Paul fine a man £200 for failing to respond to Jury Duty summons

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    #25 - Celebrity Scammers: Under the Influence

    Season 9 Episode 5 - Aired 8/19/2010

    Anthony Costa joins the team this week and sells cheap vodka at wholesale prices only for the marks to be stop by Alex and Paul who tell them that store maybe selling counterfeit goods and to use them to pay for another order from Anthony and try and trap him . Also the team disconnect a woman's satellite signal and then ask for the credit card details in order for them to reconnect her straight away.

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