The Fortune Hotel series 2 line-up includes ex-police officer and poker player
The Fortune Hotel is opening its doors for a second series, with holidaymakers checking into the resort in the Caribbean.
From a retired police officer to a poker player, ITV casts people of all ages who are from different parts of the country and coming from a variety of backgrounds. There are partners, best friends, parents and children, many different combinations of people competing for the prize money.
Not unlike BBC's The Traitors, The Fortune Hotel has been a success and will return to the rival channel over the summer. "You can't trust anyone at The Fortune Hotel" is the seductive tagline for the TV show.
Stephen Mangan fronts the reality series that has the glamorous backdrop of a five-star resort in the Caribbean, Silversands Grenada at Grand Anse. Host Mangan revealed his top three celebrity guest choices would be Alan Carr, George Washington and Muhammad Ali.
Mother and son duo Jo-Anne and Will were the winners of the cash last series. They chose to give the runners up £5,000 commiserations money!
Contestants are competing for an envy-inducing £250,000 prize fund. The cast have been kept a secret in the lead up to the show airing, until now. The Fortune Hotel was filmed in secret at the end of last year, in October/November.
The Fortune Hotel line-up
Marilyn and Maxine
Jobs: Mental health practitioner and Tech Strategist
Ages: 46 and 41
Marilyn and Maxine headed into The Fortune Hotel as best friends. They are better known as Maz and Max.
Summing herself up in a few words, Maz said: "I'm a deep thinker, I can be sassy but I'm loyal!"
Max said of herself: "I'm definitely an adventurous girly in every sense of life! Since COVID I try to never say no to anything so I've been travelling - I'm 34 countries down now and cracking on! I'm also really compassionate, I always try to be there for all the people be there for all the people I love."
Chelsey and Briony
Jobs: Cleaning business owners/ content creators
Ages 34 and 33
Chelsey and Briony, from Wigan, are also best friends who took on the extraordinary challenge.
"We felt like we were having an early mid-life crisis, we were working and being mums so we wanted an adventure and something different," Chelsey said.
Briony also said: "I watched the first series and absolutely loved it! We wanted to enter it as it's an adventure with your best friend in a lovely sunny destination. Yes please!"
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Atholl and John
Jobs: Retired police officer and waiter
Ages: 58 and 30
As a retired police officer, the dad plans to hunt down the brief case with the £250,000 with his son. They travelled a long way to the Caribbean from the Scottish borders; the father and son think they have the skills to go far in the competition.
Atholl said: "A lot of people are drawn to me, I'm quite a friendly person. My dad can deal with who the liars are as he's a retired police officer so has done a lot with body language. Even when I was growing up, I could never lie! From being his son, I'm a great judge of character. If I have an inkling on something, I'm never normally wrong. I also remember details well, my memory is really good."
John said: "It's the ability to listen to people and gather information. Body language does tell you a lot."
Jake and Mike
Jobs: Construction Worker and Energy Surveyor
Ages: 29 and 33
Like Chelsey and Briony they too are from Wigan. However, they were the only brothers in the competition. The siblings joked they would love to spend the £250k winnings on Las Vegas.
More seriously though, they reveal why they took part. Mike said: "We didn't watch the first series but as soon as I saw there was a holiday in the Caribbean and quarter of a million pounds to be won, I was like let's do it! It was a no brainer."
Jake agreed: "A holiday in the Caribbean, who wouldn't?"
Allan and Jacob
Jobs: Events and aviation staffer / cabin crew
Ages: 38 and 33
The couple, from Aberdeen and Huddersfield, have already gone through a major life change since filming last year; they have moved to London. They have been together 10 years and hinted if they won the £250k, perhaps it's time they got married.
Allan said: "The [Fortune Hotel is the] most memorable thing we've done in our lives! To be chucked out of a plane, on to a boat with 20 other strangers all trying to fight for a suitcase, was just the most bizarre thing that we've ever done. To do it as a couple, it was the most remarkable thing we've done together!"
Jacob agreed: "It was just amazing, everyone was so nice, we had the best time. It just took over our lives, leading up to it and filming it, it was incredible."
Gurks and Guv
Jobs: Commercial Manager/ Poker Player and Energy Salesman
Ages: 28 and 35
Despite the seven year age gap, Gurks and Guv are good friends. One of them working as a poker player was always going to come in handy.
Guv said: "We both have telepathy with one another, we just give each other a look. We know [who to trust and who to be wary of]!"
Gurks added: "It's all about asking people a question and seeing how they respond, you can see what's genuine and who was playing a game."
James and Yasmine
Jobs: Teaching assistant and carpet fitter
Ages: 45 and 23
The dad and daughter from Huddersfield competed on the ITV show. As a teaching assistant and a carpet fitter, they brought their individual skills to the game.
James and Yasmine revealed the heartwarming reason they decided to take part in the show.
The dad said: "To experience something I'd never do in my everyday life. My son, James got diagnosed when he was 19 with Hodgkin's lymphoma, and we wanted to give something like this a go. When I got through he told me: "Do it, just do it! What an amazing zin thing."James is in remission and was going back to uni so Yasmine came. She wasn't complaining when she was on the beach with a cocktail!
Yasmine agreed: "We wanted to show people after you hear the word cancer, life can carry on."
Nella and Tope
Jobs: Senior Financial Accountant and Finance Business Partner
Ages: 31 and 34
The couple immersed themselves in The Fortune Hotel game. Both having jobs in finance, it's expected they'll have a similar method.
In a fairly new relationship, they don't mind admitting the show could have been make or break for them.
Nella said: "It would've been make or break for us in our relationship! We'd only been together for two and a half years when we applied for the show. If we didn't work well together it could have been make or break! But luckily enough for us, the show made our relationship stronger. I was like wow-he's wow- he's actually right sometimes!"
Tope hailed the experience as "mesmerising, enlightening and adventurous".
Sue and Jeremy
Jobs: Tech broker and Residential Property Management
Ages: 59 and 23
Last year's winners were a mother and son duo. This year, Sue and Jeremy were the only mother and son in the competition and they were convinced they could win.
Jeremy said: "I'm very driven, competitive and I'm quite a strategic person. I like to think I'm quite convincing and deceiving."
Sue said: "I think I'm very good at reading people, but it was more difficult and complicated than anyone will ever realise. It tested my brain power, it really did! When you're there everyone is playing a game!"
Fred and Min
Jobs: Retired
Ages: 60 and 59
Life partners Fred and Min, from Blackpool, decided to try out something different with The Fortune Hotel. Of course, with £250k up for grabs, they said they were in it to win it.
"No amount of money could buy that experience," Min added. "It was just amazing."
Fred said: "[The Fortune Hotel] Probably was the best experience we've had to date. Can we go again please?"
The life partners had a plan. "Bluff them, blag them and fake it til you make it! It was our last hurrah!" Fred said.
Martina and Briony
Jobs: Office Manager and Declutter
Ages: 68 and 32
Mother and daughter duo Martina and Briony from Brighton, were determined to win the £250,000 brief case.
Martina said: "At my age, people would think you couldn't do something like this, I wanted to prove them wrong. Briony rang me and said do you fancy going to the Caribbean for a holiday? holiday? And I said yes!"
Briony doesn't shy away from admitting she wanted to win to use the money for fertility treatment and a new car too.
Is Fortune Hotel like The Traitors? How does it work?
Like The Traitors, The Fortune Hotel is a cat and mouse game that is based on deception and lies. Set at a luxury resort, The Fortune Hotel's pairs are given a briefcase. The contents are entirely secret, except to those in possession of the case. All of the briefcases are empty except two: one containing the £250,000 jackpot and the other containing an early check out card.
They swap cases in a bid to steal the prize money and swerve the check out early card. One pair always ends up going home, until we have the winners.
Some curveballs are in store for the contestants taking part in the second series, as ITV has confirmed that it will feature "new vital Day Trip challenges filled with devious surprises, updated Room Service games that now take place around the hotel and sneaky surprises that will make keeping hold of that coveted case containing the £250,000 even harder".
Host Mangan said: "I am absolutely thrilled to have returned to the sunshine to check in a new set of unsuspecting guests to The Fortune Hotel. The stakes are higher, the games are bigger, and the twists are even more unexpected. I can't wait for viewers to witness all the drama, the laughter, and jeopardy of the high-stakes competition this time around. It's going to be quite the ride!"
Is The Fortune Hotel a real hotel?
And yes, the reality series is filmed at a real hotel in the Caribbean.
Silversands Grenada at Grand Anse is the stage for The Fortune Hotel. It is a gorgeous beach hotel on one of the Caribbean's most southern islands.
Of filming there, Mangan previously said: "We took over the entire resort and I got to have a very nice suite without having to pay for it. The presidential suite, which was bigger than my house, it took me four minutes to walk from one side of the living room to the other, it was that big.
"I had a balcony that looked over the ocean which was west facing so every night we got a view of the sunset and sunsets in the Caribbean are incredible."
The Fortune Hotel is set to return to ITVX over the summer.
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