May 7, 2024 – A thrilling and high-octane new reality entertainment event, The Fortune Hotel is produced by Tuesday’s Child exclusively for ITV and STV, the 8 episodes x 60 minutes prime-time series will invite viewers into a luxury Caribbean resort filled with glamour, opulence and deception.

Hosted by the incomparable Stephen Mangan, 10 pairs of contestants will arrive at The Fortune Hotel, where they will be given an all-important briefcase. Inside one case is the ultimate jackpot of £250,000 in cash, eight are empty, and one contains the dreaded Early Checkout Card – whichever pair is left holding that case at the end of each show will see their stay brought to a dramatic, premature end.

Every day the contestants have the chance to try to uncover who has which case through playing compelling challenges, and as the “Whogotit” mystery ramps up for the hotel guests, viewers at home will remain deliciously in-the-know throughout, witness to all of their plans and strategies playing out.

The climax of each episode is the nerve-shredding case swap in the seductive Lady Luck bar where each pair must decide whether to keep or swap their case. Have the couple with the life-changing sum of cash managed to bluff and blag their way free of suspicion? Or will their case be ruthlessly taken off them? And who will be left holding the case containing the Early Checkout Card?

Why have you chosen to visit The Fortune Hotel?

Jae: To do something fun and write our own history, we wanted to explore and have a new adventure.
Cherish: The opportunity that presented itself seemed like a very interesting one at the time and it was throughout the whole process. I think it was also an opportunity for us to travel as best friends and compete for a life changing amount of money in the Caribbean.

How would you spend the 250K prize money if you won it?

Cherish: Invest in ourselves, our families and into our dreams. We’d also travel and do things for ourselves and our families that we haven’t been able to do for the last 30 years.

What was the most memorable experience you had during the filming?

Cherish: The entire experience in general and just meeting the other contestants, that was really fun and interesting.

What was the most dramatic moment you encountered whilst staying at The Fortune Hotel?

Jae: Realising what lengths people were going to just to get the fortune and finding out about all of the alliances that were made in secret.

What couples did you get on best with?

Cherish: Adam and Mike and Samm and Aysha.
Jae: And Tommy and Scott, I think the fact they were also best friend couples meant we had something in common.
Cherish: We got to bond over what our friendships were and what they meant to us, we also found similarities in their friendships. Samm and Aysha we had similarities with because they’re African like us, we also loved their love story.

Who did you have the most disagreements with during your stay?

Cherish: Will and Jo-Anne but we wouldn’t call it disagreements, just frictions, we rubbed each other the wrong way. We also had a few misunderstandings with Daniel and Claire.

If you could invite any three celebrities to stay alongside you at The Fortune Hotel who would they be?

Both: Dwayne The Rock Johnson, Usain Bolt and Serena Williams.

What were the biggest perks of being a guest at The Fortune Hotel?

Cherish: Everything was free!
Jae: Having the beach right on our doorstep was beautiful, waking up to that every morning was phenomenal.