Deal Or No Deal host Grant Denyer goes rogue as he reveals what producers don't want you to know about the game show: 'I've never had that on any other television series'

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Grant Denyer has a revealed a little-known fact about Deal Or No Deal - and what producers don't show you on the screen.
On Monday, the Gold Logie winner sat down with From The Newsroom podcast to promote the Channel 10 show's new 7pm time slot, while also spilling some of the secrets behind the scenes.
'Have you ever had to stop filming because something went seriously wrong?' the podcast host asked him.
Grant, 47, then hesitated before revealing that a couple of contestants have passed out on the game show, halting production - before being replaced by lookalikes.
'I've never said this and I don't know if I'm allowed to, but we have quite a few fainters!' he said.
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'Up on the podium where people are holding the cases, it's quite regular that someone goes down.'
Producers have a novel way of dealing with the issue, Grant admitted.
'We quickly extract them from the area and we give them urgent medical attention,' he went on.
'And then we usually just replace them with someone else in the audience who looks close enough.
'I've never had that on any other television show. I don't specifically know why it happens on Deal Or No Deal … but that's a thing.'
The TV host, who celebrated 25 years in the television industry in January, made a shocking confession about his early days on the job as a young reporter.
'I realised pretty quickly that I was a terrible journalist,' he said in a new interview with the Courier Mail.
He continued: 'I didn't know much about the world, and I remember going to a fatal car accident as one of my first stories.
'It was all pretty graphic and pretty serious, you know, seeing your first ever deceased body, and I thought, "Hmm, I'm not sure I'm cut out for this."'
Elsewhere in the chat, Grant, who began his career at Prime TV in the NSW town of Wagga Wagga, said he felt like was 'fake' and a 'pretender' from his very day on the job.
Adding he was 'terrified' Grant explained: 'You're among a room full of proper journalists who've gone through university and I barely made it through high school.'
Grant, whose wife Cheryl 'Chezzi' Denyer recently underwent an 8-hour surgery after battling post-pregnancy nerve damage, eventually scored a high-profile gig as a weatherman on Seven's Sunrise in 2006.
He scored one of TVs highest honours in 2018 when he won a Gold Logie Award for Most Popular Personality on Australian Television.
Currently the host of Channel 10's reboot of game show Deal or No Deal, Grant won new fans after walking away the winner of Dancing with the Stars in 2007.