The winner of Channel 4’s £100,000 prize on The Inheritance has been revealed.
The brand new reality show, presented by Rob Rinder and featuring Elizabeth Hurley, sees 13 contestants battling it out to land a huge cash prize.
Each of the hopefuls are summoned to a stately home, where Elizabeth’s character The Deceased has died, leaving behind a massive inheritance ready to be claimed.
The Inheritance players have so far competed in tasks to build up their funds
Last week, things took an almighty turn after one ‘ruthless game player’ took £2,800 all for herself.
In this episode, however, Yorkshire scaffolder Cam, 28, won the vote amongst his fellow finalists to be the ultimate Prime Beneficiary, receiving a £100,000 fortune from The Deceased’s estate.
But in a dramatic twist, he decided to share the fortune with Emma, Hafsah, Hannah and Jesse.
Faced with the cash, Cam had the option to keep all the winnings for himself, adding to the £10,000 he’d accumulated across the game.
Instead, he chose to share the inheritance with Emma, Hafsah, Hannah and Jesse, gifting them £20,000 each to add to their money already banked.
While Cam inherited a total of £30,000, wedding planner Hannah and student Jesse received £28,200 each, marketing manager Hafsah pocketed £27,700 and paramedic Emma took home £23,800.
Earlier in the episode, health and wellbeing advisor Tia missed out a chance to play for the final inheritance when Hannah cut her from The Deceased’s will. Tia left the game with £7,400.
On winning, Cam said: ‘I’ve had debt hanging over my head for years, I can’t describe the feeling of a fresh start. My dad taught me integrity and in that strong room it is literally a battle between your head and your heart. To be able to change the lives of four other people too, I am so happy and proud.’
Asked how it feels to have won the whole show, he added: ‘It feels so surreal to have won it even though I always maintained confidence in myself to make it right through to the end, and it just shows that hard work pays off.
‘My strategy from the start was to just be myself and have confidence in myself that people will see that I’m a people person and a grafter.’
Explaining his decision to split the money, he stated: ‘I know, we all spoke about it in the final division ceremony, dividing all the money up, and I think it’s easy to say you would.
‘However, when you get down into that room, and you’ve got a hundred thousand pounds in front of your face, you start thinking about everything back at home and how much it could change your life.
‘It really is a tough decision but at the end of the day I’m a team player, and I’m just so happy that I did make the decision I made.’
Cam also revealed what he is going to spend his winnings on, saying: ‘The second that money hits my bank I’m just paying off all my credit cards, every debt I’ve had and then have a full fresh start with that.’
Shedding light on his final moments with The Executor, Rinder, he added: ‘Down in that strong room with The Executor is ridiculously intense. He stares straight into your soul, and I think when you’re in that moment there’s a lot of big decisions to be made, and it was really intense down there.
‘[The whole experience was] positive, surreal and crazy.’
The Inheritance is available to watch on Channel 4.
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