The Wall's Danny Dyer shades rival gameshow Tipping Point
EastEnders star Danny Dyer doesn't want anyone confusing his BBC gameshow The Wall with ITV's Tipping Point.
Dyer's The Wall returns for its second series this weekend, as the game tests strategy, knowledge and luck as well as the sheer force of gravity!
While The Wall is understandably the soap star's favourite current gameshow on telly, he had a blunt answer when asked which others he enjoyed watching.
"At the moment, [none]! I'm going to be honest," he admitted to Digital Spy and other media. "I don't want to say anything too controversial. I'm in my 40s now so I remember the '90s, which was a real decade of shows. The end of the '80s, Bullseye era, The Price Is Right. Going into the '90s, I loved Big Break, the snooker one. I loved that.
"I just love that Saturday night feel and I think this feels like a Saturday night thing. It's quite nostalgic and warming to the heart, to sit in front of a really interesting game and see real people with hardships, trying to win their money.
"I think, and I'm clearly biased, that there ain't no gameshow out there like our one. I've just been blessed to be thrown a game that's so different every week."
He also threw a little shade at the prize money offered on some of the gameshows airing on competing channels.
"[The Wall is] not Tipping Point! I couldn't f**king help myself, I had to go there," he teased. "You're not going to be nicking 300 quid on this show. It's all in, or you're going to lose the lot."
In typical Danny Dyer fashion, he offered a hilarious assessment of how he'd fare in taking on The Wall as a competitor.
"Sometimes it's really difficult but of course you've got options and you need to eliminate different options. In lockdown we should have been reading poetry, writing stuff and all that bollocks but let's have it right, we've all been watching 10 hours of Netflix a day," he said. "If anything, I think our brains have slowly melted away and we're trying to reactivate them, trying to act normal in a world that's so not normal at the moment.
"All our brains have been stung and anxiety has grown, all of those things have drummed into our soul. Now we're free, a bit, so I think everyone is eager to get involved in something. You can see that with the contestants, they want to get it right."
The Wall returns on Saturday (October 3) on BBC One in the UK.
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