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BAFTA award-winning Michael McIntyre hosts the exciting Saturday-night game show packed with huge stars, big laughs and a colossal spinning wheel!

The game couldn’t be simpler: Three contestants hope to answer their way to a fortune, and are helped by the seven celebrities around them. Can the famous faces help one of them to win big? That all depends on the spin of The Wheel!

In each show, seven fantastic celebrities are strapped to the circumference of the giant wheel. Each celebrity has brought one area of expertise to the show – and it is on these areas that the contestants must answer questions.

The contestants themselves are underneath The Wheel, on another smaller wheel! This Contestant Wheel is spun, and whichever contestant is randomly selected, rises up on their chair, to take their place at the centre of The Wheel and begin the game.

The contestant at the centre of The Wheel is in control – if they can stay there until the end of the show then they could win a life-changing sum of money. However, one wrong answer or spin of The Wheel and they’ll be back down to the Contestant Wheel, and they might never return…

The contestant at the centre of The Wheel chooses a category they want to take on, and with the help of one of the celebrities, they'll answer a question on it. However, the contestants don’t get to choose who their celebrity helper is, The Wheel does, in a dizzying, high-energy spin!

Before each spin, The Wheel is set with risk and reward: The celebrity with the expert knowledge is lit gold, while the contestant must choose one celebrity to shut down in red. Whilst each question is usually worth £3,000, landing on the gold expert means it is worth a whopping £10,000. Landing on the red shutdown celebrity means they are off The Wheel immediately!

At the end of the spin, the contestant gets the help of whichever celebrity lands in front them. This could be a celebrity with a surprising amount of knowledge on the area or it could be a completely clueless celebrity, where The Wheel stops is always completely random!

If the contestant gets the question right, they add money to the bank, complete the category and stay in the centre of The Wheel. If the contestant gets a question wrong, then they are sent straight back down beneath The Wheel and we may never see them again. One of the three contestants on the Contestant Wheel is then randomly selected to rise up and continue the game where the last one left off.

Once all seven categories have been completed, whichever contestant is in control of The Wheel faces one final Cash Out question to try and take home a huge sum of money.

They’ve got just 30 seconds to discuss the question with their chosen celebrity expert, before they must lock in their answer. If they get it right, they take home the cash. Get it wrong however, and they’re off The Wheel, opening the door to one of the other players.

With only three attempts to win the cash allowed, the contestants must take their chances when they arrive…

Halfway through every show, the celebrities face a Moneyspinner question to try and add more money to the bank. The question might seem simple, but the celebrities have got to each give a correct answer quickly, under pressure – and while spinning around!

• The Wheel is 13 metres (42 feet) wide.
• Every time The Wheel or the Contestant Wheel spins, the result is completely random.
• All information is correct at time of recording.
• Produced within industry Covid guidelines applicable at time of recording.
• All rules and procedures are overseen by an independent adjudicator, on the day of record.

The Wheel returns Saturday 22nd October at 17:40 on 大象传媒 One and iPlayer.