The Real Hustle Episode Rating Graph
Feb 2006 - Mar 2012

Feb 2006 - Mar 2012
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S11 Ep10
10.0
30th Mar 2012
Even the very best con artists make mistakes sometimes and this episode exposes what happens when scams go wrong. Guest hustlers, boxer Joe Calzaghe, and EastEnders star, Sid Owen, get involved in a crazy con set in the world of vintage stamps that turns out to be the strangest scam in the history of the Real Hustle.
S11 Ep9
10.0
23rd Mar 2012
Former Blue Peter Presenter Konnie Huq joins the Hustlers in a scam involving time-share deals on a Scottish castle.
S11 Ep8
10.0
16th Mar 2012
Ex-Coronation Street star Lucien Laviscount joins the team for an antiques-based con.
S11 Ep7
10.0
9th Mar 2012
Ex-Hollyoaks star Marcus Patrick joins the team in a con involving some buried treasure.
S11 Ep6
10.0
2nd Mar 2012
Hollyoaks star Gemma Atkinson helps pull off a real-life game of Grand Theft Auto.
S10 Ep8
10.0
31st Oct 2011
Colin Murray poses as poker magazine journalist, helping the hustlers pull off a scam.

S2 Ep7
10.0
19th Oct 2006
The gang steel laptops by offering a free memory upgrade, they picking pockets in a cafe, hack someone's wireless network and sell cheap knives with an infomercial for much more than there worth.

S6 Ep4
9.7
30th Oct 2008
Alex poses as a talented but shy mathematician to convince people to invest in a Blackjack system; Jess steals some items from a shop by hiding them in a pregnancy dress (Bun in the Oven); and Alex beats a horse ridden by Tara Palmer-Tomkinson in a slalom race on foot (Celebrity Con Games).

S6 Ep3
9.7
23rd Oct 2008
Described as the "most common scam in the world", the 419 scam is demonstrated; Jess persuades someone to hand over his car keys as security while he does her a favour by taking what he thinks is £7000 of her money to a money exchange (The Unfair Exchange); and JK and Joel are challenged to get four eggs into four glasses in one move (Celebrity Con Games).

S5 Ep8
9.7
24th Mar 2008
In the final episode of the series Alex pretends to be blind to cheat a casino and Paul cons an unsuspecting couple into buying dodgy casino chips.

S5 Ep7
9.7
17th Mar 2008
Paul, with the help of Alex, cons a father and daughter into buying a device that can predict the numbers drawn on a live lottery, Alex hustles a pool player out of his cash and Jess uses her charms to distract a barman, allowing Paul to empty the contents of the bar's slot machine.

S2 Ep2
9.7
14th Sep 2006
This episode's proposition bet involves the circumference of a beer glass being longer than its height. Stealing a victim's bag and then obtaining her PIN via a fake customer service line. Stealing people's unattended bags with a hollow dummy bag.
S7 Ep3
9.5
4th Jun 2009
Alex demonstrates social compliance by posing as a police officer to take some tourists' passports (The Passport Cool-Out); Christian O'Connell is challenged by Alex to lift a table without touching it (Celebrity Con Games); the hustlers install fake car parking signs to get people to pay by text message (The Seaside Parking Swindle); Jess challenges some people in a bar to make a knot in a tie without letting go of the ends (Proposition Bets); and Alex clones swipe-card keys in a hotel to later walk off with guests' possessions (The Swipe).

S2 Ep6
9.5
12th Oct 2006
The gang show us how to con members of the public into giving away credit card details via a fake charity scratch card just by saying there was a bit of mix up.

S4 Ep7
9.4
10th Sep 2007
The hustlers make up an event, hire a band, then steal their equipment; sell fake tickets for a club night in Ibiza; demonstrate a fairground pendulum game that is physically impossible to win; and deliver empty parcels, cash on delivery, to unsuspecting small businesses. The proposition bet involves balancing a glass on top of three glasses and three knives.

S4 Ep6
9.3
3rd Sep 2007
The gang pull off an escrow scan by pretending to be a trustworthy pub landlord; manage to persuade a couple to give them £200 for some worthless vouchers in the pretense of a prize draw; sell overpriced goods (for example, 100 nails described as "100 metal coat hangers") without technically lying; and use skillful sleight-of-hand techniques to beat the Blackjack table. The probability bet involves drinking a shot of rum without spilling a drop.
S11 Ep4
9.0
17th Feb 2012
TV presenter Laura Hamilton helps the Hustlers scam a mark who's accused of stealing cash.
S11 Ep1
9.0
27th Jan 2012
Ex-Boyzone member Shane Lynch goes undercover as a tramp to help pull off a devious heist.
S10 Ep2
9.0
12th Sep 2011
Pop Idol's Gareth Gates plays the role of a stock market trader in a bogus business scam.
S10 Ep1
9.0
5th Sep 2011
Polly Parsons and Jazz Lintott join Jess Clement, Alexis Conran and Paul Wilson in their mission to expose cons and crimes that catch the public out on a regular basis. Former Emmerdale actress Roxanne Pallet goes undercover to help the hustlers steal from a watch store

S6 Ep9
9.0
4th Dec 2008
The team pose as antiques experts and manage to sell a couple their own statuette back to them (Double Take); Alex and Paul successfully perform a variant of phishing, except in the real-life environment of a shopping-centre instead of online (Stake-out Scam); and Aldo Zilli is challenged to break an egg with a frying pan (Celebrity Con Games).

S6 Ep6
9.0
13th Nov 2008
The team sets up their own art gallery to sell fake art by a famous artist (Picture Perfect); Alex and Paul demonstrate ways people can steal handbags (The Handbag Hustles); and Chico is challenged to a string game with balloons with the promise that Jess will have to take her clothes off if he succeeds (Celebrity Con Games).

S6 Ep5
9.0
6th Nov 2008
Paul reprises his role as a fake doctor to convince marks to bet at a fake betting shop run by the team (The Wire); Alex shoplifts by using a mark's open bag as a diversion (The False Alarm); and Dick and Dom challenge Jess to a game of strength (Celebrity Con Games).

S6 Ep10
5.0
11th Dec 2008
A pair of marks are tricked into thinking they are buying the discs from the 2007 UK child benefit data scandal in the hope of gaining an award (The Go-between); a carefully constructed paper form ensures that companies still pay for a cancelled service (The Cancellation Con); and basketball player Steve Bucknall is challenged to a free throw competition with Alex (Celebrity Con Games).

S5 Ep3
6.5
19th Feb 2008
The team decide they want the pot in the a Blackjack game, Jess uses her feminine charms to win some money at pool and they also show you how conmen will go to extremes to pickpocket you.
S10 Ep3
6.5
19th Sep 2011
Former Eastenders wheeler dealer Joe Swash goes undercover, posing as a member of a film crew in a scam to relieve a TV rentals shop of a shipment of flatscreen TVs.

S3 Ep3
7.0
29th Mar 2007
Jess cons people into giving her money in a pub by posing as a barmaid. Paul gets a neighbouring table to pay for his bill in a restaurant. Alex wins a proposition bet involving a £20 note and a beer bottle. Jess signs up unsuspecting passers-by to an expensive text message service by asking to borrow their mobile phones by pretending she needs to send an important, but ordinary text; she actually subscribes them. Paul and Alex win big by stacking the deck in a game of drunken poker.

S6 Ep2
7.0
16th Oct 2008
The boys demonstrate an ingenious method to sneak a marked pack of cards into a big money poker game (Lady Luck). The Pigeon Drop rips off some marks who think they've found a bag full of cash. Celebrity Con Games features Joanna Page in a cracker eating competition.
S9 Ep4
7.0
12th Aug 2010
Lisa Snowdon joins the team this week to get some parks buy a cheap painting which they think is worth a lot more so they enter it into an auction hoping to get around £2000 but Paul gets them to bid to drive up the price. While Alex and Paul fine a man £200 for failing to respond to Jury Duty summons
S10 Ep6
7.0
10th Oct 2011
Hollyoaks actress Jennifer Metcalfe goes undercover in a lottery syndicate scam.

S4 Ep4
7.3
20th Aug 2007
The hustlers pass counterfeit cash by previously handing shops a pen that supposedly detects counterfeit notes; demonstrate scams that a bartender can pull; get people to hand over their bank details in applying for a gym that will never be built; and show you how hustlers can cheat at the card game Gin. The proposition bet involves balancing a wine glass upright over a further two wine glasses, while none of them touch.
S7 Ep1
7.3
21st May 2009
Jess convinces a mark to take a teddy to her nephew in Liverpool, but it contains a surprise (The Teddy Bear Scam); Andi Peters is challenged by Alex to tear apart a phonebook faster than he can (Celebrity Con Games); Paul convinces a couple he is their taxi driver, but walks off with their luggage while they wait (The Airport Pick Up); and Jess challenges two guys in a bar to get water out of a bottle faster than she can (Proposition Bets).
S11 Ep3
7.3
10th Feb 2012
Radio 1 DJ Nihal helps con two unsuspecting marks into buying a bronze sculpture.

S3 Ep7
7.4
26th Apr 2007
Paul and Alex pose as gas installers and rip off unsuspecting householders. Jess hacks into a cash machine to double her money. Paul wins a proposition bet involving a saucer of liquid and some matches. All three hustlers get a free lunch with an elaborate series of coordinated scams against a restaurant. Paul and Alex use memory, observational, and mathematical techniques to win at Blackjack.

S3 Ep6
7.5
19th Apr 2007
Alex and Jess fake an argument in a jeweller's shop allowing Paul to use sleight of hand to steal an expensive watch. Alex cons restaurants by pretending his tie was stained with wine, then increases the amount written on the cheques. Alex wins a proposition bet with a pedantic definition of the phrase "in thirty seconds". Paul and Alex demonstrate social compliance by posing as police officers. Alex and Paul use past posting to rip-off a roulette wheel.
S8 Ep1
7.5
14th Jan 2010
The hustlers go shopping for expensive sports cars and drive away with their biggest pay day yet. Alex, Paul and Jess teach Danny Dyer the ropes as he becomes the first celebrity hustler, and Paul and Jess discover a miracle smoking cure that has punters queueing up to buy.

S1 Ep1
7.7
9th Feb 2006
The team perform the classic monte scam at the beach, bag a £600 necklace from a jewellery shop, carry out a proposition bet in a pub using three pints and three shots as well as the keylogger scam, revealing the art of the pickpocket using mustard dip and the flat rental scam.

S1 Ep6
7.7
16th Mar 2006
They claim compensation for damaged goods after orchestrating an accident, use other people's phones to call premium-rate lines, and make unsuspecting drivers pay for false parking tickets.
S11 Ep2
7.7
3rd Feb 2012
The Only Way Is Essex star Sam Faiers goes undercover as an ex-wife to help the Hustlers con a mark into buying part of the divorce settlement - 'husband' Alex's flash sports car.

S1 Ep3
7.8
23rd Feb 2006
The team reveal how fake customs officers are committing daylight robbery by stripping unwitting travellers of their supposedly contraband possessions. Other scams include a pool proposition bet, the jam auction, a fairground scam, the art of the pickpocket with "mind my bag" and the wifi scam.

S3 Ep5
7.8
12th Apr 2007
The hustlers demonstrate pickpocketing techniques while crossing the road. Paul sells an envelope of worthless newspaper to some students, fooling them that it is full of cash. Jess wins a proposition bet involving hands and elbows. Paul and Alex demonstrate extreme social compliance by posing as policeman investigating suspected stolen goods, only to steal the goods themselves. They also use mis-spotted and loaded dice to scam other gamblers in a casino.

S5 Ep5
7.8
3rd Mar 2008
The gang decicde to hustle some tourists to steal their luagage, Jess needs some change so decicdes to make of with a slot player's coin bucket and Alex and Paul fancie using someone else's money to go out for a drink.
S11 Ep5
7.8
24th Feb 2012
Shameless and EastEnders star Jody Latham helps the Hustlers pull off a gambling scam.

S1 Ep4
7.8
2nd Mar 2006
The team continue their swindling spree by tricking a barman into paying a reward for a supposedly valuable ring using "the honeytrap" in the ring reward rip-off. Then they con punters at a car-boot sale into buying worthless scraps of paper, perform a proposition bet in a cafe, show the postman scam in the art of the pickpocket and deceive three professional poker players.

S3 Ep2
7.8
22nd Mar 2007
Alex drops a wallet full of Euros in the Drop Swindle. Jess fills a bag with leaflets in the tourist information centre and sells them to marks as discount packs. Paul gets free drinks by putting a 10p through a hole in a £10 note which only seems large enough for a 5p. Alex pretends to be a concierge and makes off with luggage outside a hotel. Alex and Paul get a dog from the dog's home and sell it for £200 by tricking the buyer into thinking that it is of a valuable pedigree breed.

S4 Ep1
7.8
30th Jul 2007
Alex and Jess rob a hotel room by posing as hotel employees; Jess and Paul pretend to be from a film crew, ask a mark if they can rent his car as a prop, and drive off right in front of him; Jess wins a proposition bet using three full and three empty shot glasses, then scams herself a free beauty session; the hustlers head to Ibiza to fool holidaymakers into parting with their money for some worthless purses.

S1 Ep1
7.7
9th Feb 2006
The team perform the classic monte scam at the beach, bag a £600 necklace from a jewellery shop, carry out a proposition bet in a pub using three pints and three shots as well as the keylogger scam, revealing the art of the pickpocket using mustard dip and the flat rental scam.

S1 Ep2
8.2
16th Feb 2006
Scams include overcharging for worthless packages, a proposition bet involving a shot of whisky and a shot of water, selling forged lottery tickets, stealing a laptop from an airport, the window tap and conning aspiring popstars into handing over £500 to produce a tacky demo tape.

S1 Ep3
7.8
23rd Feb 2006
The team reveal how fake customs officers are committing daylight robbery by stripping unwitting travellers of their supposedly contraband possessions. Other scams include a pool proposition bet, the jam auction, a fairground scam, the art of the pickpocket with "mind my bag" and the wifi scam.

S1 Ep4
7.8
2nd Mar 2006
The team continue their swindling spree by tricking a barman into paying a reward for a supposedly valuable ring using "the honeytrap" in the ring reward rip-off. Then they con punters at a car-boot sale into buying worthless scraps of paper, perform a proposition bet in a cafe, show the postman scam in the art of the pickpocket and deceive three professional poker players.

S1 Ep5
8.1
9th Mar 2006
A team of professional con artists demonstrate more scams, including how to sell a hire car over and over again. They also show the process involved in duplicating bank cards, the ease with which counterfeit notes can be used and how `blue-jacking' phones brings dividends.

S1 Ep6
7.7
16th Mar 2006
They claim compensation for damaged goods after orchestrating an accident, use other people's phones to call premium-rate lines, and make unsuspecting drivers pay for false parking tickets.

S1 Ep7
8.3
23rd Mar 2006
They obtain credit cards in a victim's name just from items found in rubbish bins, and confuse shopkeepers into giving them too much change.

S1 Ep8
8.5
30th Mar 2006
Show eight is the last in the first series and features the Psychic Scam, which shows how a hustler can cheat you with fake psychic powers, a demonstration of rigged dice game, a sneaky bar bet, a pool hustle and a romp through the rules of the real hustle - what we have learned throughout the series.
The first episode of The Real Hustle aired on February 09, 2006.
The last episode of The Real Hustle aired on March 30, 2012.
There are 106 episodes of The Real Hustle.
There are 11 seasons of The Real Hustle.
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The Real Hustle has ended.