{"id":6460,"date":"2014-02-13T11:35:30","date_gmt":"2014-02-13T11:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2014\/02\/13\/roop-singh-wins-big-on-deal-or-no-deal\/"},"modified":"2016-01-07T13:47:54","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T13:47:54","slug":"roop-singh-wins-big-on-deal-or-no-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2014\/02\/13\/roop-singh-wins-big-on-deal-or-no-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Roop Singh Wins Big on Deal or No Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>Becomes 7th Contestant to Win \u00a3250,000<\/h3>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"3\" vspace=\"10\" align=\"middle\" width=\"460\" height=\"225\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/roop-singh-460x225.jpg\"\/><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div\/>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Deal or No Deal contestant Roop Singh has become the latest participant to win a quarter of a million pound. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The 54-year-old from Leeds played a very fearless game on the show; which is broadcast daily on Channel 4, having the lesser \u00a35, \u00a3100, \u00a3500 and \u00a31000 in his other four boxes. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Speaking after his win, Roop said, \u201cThe night before my game my daughter quite innocently said \u2018Dad, I want confetti.\u2019 <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u201cWhen I was offered \u00a346k all I could think of was \u2018Dad, I want confetti\u2019 and I said \u2018No Deal.\u2019 <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u201cI still cannot fully remember what happened next but I do remember the confetti and everyone hugging and congratulating me.\u201d <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Since winning his new found fortune, Roop has bought a few presents for his family and friends whilst also treating himself to a bike for a dream cycle along the coast line of Britain later this year. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>He also plans to donate money to the various charities he supports. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Becomes 7th Contestant to Win \u00a3250,000 &#13; &#13; Deal or No Deal contestant Roop Singh has become the latest participant to win a quarter of a million pound. &#13; \u00a0 &#13; The 54-year-old from Leeds played a very fearless game on the show; which is broadcast daily on Channel 4, having the lesser \u00a35, \u00a3100, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}