Rise and Fall winner confirmed as Channel 4 viewers say knew it from day one

2023-04-15

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Eddy has been crowned the winner of the first ever series of Channel 4's Rise and Fall – and fans are overjoyed.

The Devon-based software sales manager worked his way up from being a Grafter to becoming a Ruler and has now banked a staggering amount of cash.

Headed up by Greg James, Rise and Fall is a gripping game about what it takes to get to the top – how to win power, how to keep hold of it and how to use it to influence others – and Eddy has proved to be the best Ruler of the series.

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With Rulers and Grafters, the show sees Rulers living a lavish life in a luxurious penthouse as they encourage the Grafters to work harder to earn cash.

With the Grafters living in the basement, it was here that Eddy lived for the most part of the show, with him baking bread for his fellow Grafters.

But just days before the final, Eddy rose to the penthouse and became a grafter.

Making it to the top with five others, the final comes just four weeks after 16 people from all around the UK began the game with the hopes of winning a prize pot up to £100,000.

With only Rulers able to win and only 18 episodes to get there and stay there, it was whittled down to six Rulers: Matt, Moses, Eddy, Rossi, Ramona and Sydney.

In tonight’s final episode, viewers watched on as the Rulers relied on Grafters and returning fallen Rulers to secure their seat in the final Red Room.

With a bricklaying Work Shift, the first Ruler to fall was Rossi, with the final five going head-to-head for the £85,610 prize fund.

In the end it was between Sydney from West Lothian and Eddy from Devon, before one of them was crowned the winner and the recipient of the sought after prize pot.

When it came down to the final vote, Matt, Moses and Ramona chose Eddy as their winner.

After Eddy won the game and the prize pot that he had his sights set on from the beginning, he said: "Thank you so much, I’m speechless at the moment… I think I need a pint of champagne…"

He went on: "I look at this game as an analogy for life.

"It has shown me that slow and steady wins the race, you don’t always have to be dog eat dog in this world… I never did well at school, never been top of the class and this feels like I’m top of the class. Oh my God!"

After it was announced that Eddy had won the series, one fan took to Twitter and said: "Shock we all knew Eddy had it since day one."

While another person added: "I called it I knew Eddy would win. His game plan from the beginning worked."

Stream the full series of Rise and Fall on All4 now

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