Episode 1
Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Feb 9, 2006
A team of hustlers try out some notorious scams on members of the public. Scams include: Three Disc Monte, Jewellery Shop, and Proposition Bar Bets.
Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Feb 9, 2006
A team of hustlers try out some notorious scams on members of the public. Scams include: Three Disc Monte, Jewellery Shop, and Proposition Bar Bets.
Episode: 1x02 | Airdate: Feb 16, 2006
A team of hustlers try out some notorious scams on members of the public. Scams include selling a forged lottery ticket and a fake talent agency.
Episode: 1x03 | Airdate: Feb 23, 2006
The team show how fake customs officers can fleece booze-cruisers and how fairground games can be rigged.
Episode: 1x04 | Airdate: Mar 2, 2006
The team dupe a barman into paying up the reward money for an allegedly expensive ring.
Episode: 1x05 | Airdate: Mar 9, 2006
The team show how con artists can sell a hire car over and over again, clone your cashcard and make money by blue-jacking phones.
Episode: 1x06 | Airdate: Mar 16, 2006
The team demonstrate how fruit machines can be tampered with to affect your real chances of winning.
Episode: 1x07 | Airdate: Mar 23, 2006
The team show an identity theft scam where hustlers use items found in the rubbish to obtain credit cards in a victim's name.
Episode: 1x08 | Airdate: Mar 30, 2006
How a hustler can cheat you with fake psychic powers, a demonstration of rigged dice game, a sneaky bar bet and a pool hustle.
Episode: 2x01 | Airdate: Sep 7, 2006
A team of hustlers try out some notorious scams on the public. Scams include the fake warehouse employees who grab thousands of pounds with the aid of just a trolley.
Episode: 2x02 | Airdate: Sep 14, 2006
A team of hustlers try out some notorious scams on members of the public, including the ATM card switch, and using a stick to remove items from a house while the owners are home.
Episode: 2x03 | Airdate: Sep 21, 2006
A team of hustlers try out some notorious scams on members of the public, including stealing watches from the public, card cloning and a bar bet which guarantees free drinks.
Episode: 2x04 | Airdate: Sep 28, 2006
A team of hustlers try out notorious scams on members of the public, including distraction techniques used to access car boots, and a restaurant scam that guarantees a cheap meal.
Episode: 2x05 | Airdate: Oct 5, 2006
How to steal a car using role play and how a mock auction can con people into buying cheap goods.
Episode: 2x06 | Airdate: Oct 12, 2006
Scams include a three-in-one hustle where the victim is tricked into buying a fake charity scratch card.
Episode: 2x07 | Airdate: Oct 19, 2006
Scams include how to steal valuables from jackets in a busy bar and how to get a few free rounds in the pub.
Episode: 2x08 | Airdate: Oct 26, 2006
Alex works his charms as a fake waiter and Paul dupes a punter into buying him a free drink.
Episode: 2x09 | Airdate: Nov 2, 2006
Scams include a car clamping trick, and selling non-organic produce as organic with a marked-up price.
Episode: 2x10 | Airdate: Nov 9, 2006
Alex and Paul set up a market stall that sells fake showbiz memorabilia and dodgy autographs.
Episode: 3x01 | Airdate: Mar 15, 2007
A team of hustlers try out some notorious scams on the public. Scams include selling someone a box of paper for two hundred pounds, and a gravity-defying bar bet.
Episode: 3x02 | Airdate: Mar 22, 2007
Scams include selling a wallet full of fake money for a fistful of real cash, and taking bags from hotel guests.
Episode: 3x03 | Airdate: Mar 29, 2007
Scams include Text MessageTrap, Bogus Barmaid, and leaving other diners to pick up the bill in a posh restaurant.
Episode: 3x04 | Airdate: Apr 5, 2007
Scams include walking out of a shop with hundreds of pounds of computer software for nothing and a backgammon hustle.
Episode: 3x05 | Airdate: Apr 12, 2007
Jess, Paul and Alex carry out a pickpocketing scam with a synchronised three-handed hustle at Piccadilly Circus.
Episode: 3x06 | Airdate: Apr 19, 2007
The boys pose as undercover police officers and use their bogus authority to pinch a passer-by's car.
Episode: 3x07 | Airdate: Apr 26, 2007
A team of hustlers try out some notorious scams on members of the public, filmed with hidden cameras and intercut with interviews from fraud protection experts, police and victims.
Episode: 3x08 | Airdate: May 3, 2007
Alex, Paul and Jess hit the jackpot by pinching a pub fruit machine and duping a barmaid into helping them.
Episode: 4x01 | Airdate: Jul 30, 2007
The gang get people to sell their cars by accident and hit Ibiza for a spot of sun, sea and scamming.
Episode: 4x02 | Airdate: Aug 6, 2007
The gang launch their own range of miracle fat-busting products to help you shed pounds from your wallet.
Episode: 4x03 | Airdate: Aug 13, 2007
In Ibiza the gang use distraction steals to lift passports, and a couple of bargain hunters are taken for a ride.
Episode: 4x04 | Airdate: Aug 20, 2007
The gang shift hundreds of pounds' worth of counterfeit cash and people queue up to buy something that doesn't exist.
Episode: 4x05 | Airdate: Aug 27, 2007
The gang reveal how a hustler can turn a second hand car into the gift that keeps on giving.
Episode: 4x06 | Airdate: Sep 3, 2007
The boys show how dishonest gamblers can scam the casino by turning the odds in their favour at the blackjack tables.
Episode: 4x07 | Airdate: Sep 10, 2007
A team of hustlers try out notorious scams on the public. In Ibiza, they organise an exclusive gig and steal all the instruments, leaving the headline act with just the air guitar.
Episode: 4x08 | Airdate: Sep 17, 2007
Holidaymakers in Ibiza lose more than they think at 3 Card Monte, and there's an easy way to win a round of drinks.
Episode: 4x09 | Airdate: Sep 24, 2007
A team of hustlers try out devious scams on the public. In Ibiza, they pass off counterfeit cash, sell pretty but worthless gems and get punters to pay for non-existent debts.
Episode: 4x10 | Airdate: Oct 1, 2007
A team of hustlers try out devious scams on the public. In this programme they fleece the customers in a bar by running a fake cloakroom.
Episode: 4x11 | Airdate: Oct 8, 2007
The gang hit the beach to pull off a classic distraction steal, and Jess uncovers the tricks of fairground stall holders.
Episode: 4x12 | Airdate: Oct 15, 2007
The gang set an elaborate speed trap for a couple hiring a car on holiday and show how expensive diamonds can disappear.
Episode: 5x01 | Airdate: Feb 12, 2008
A team of hustlers try out notorious scams on members of the public in Las Vegas. They steal $80,000 worth of gems from under a jeweller's nose, with help from a wealthy disguise.
Episode: 5x02 | Airdate: Feb 12, 2008
A team of hustlers try out notorious scams on members of the public in Las Vegas. The team hit a casino for thousands of dollars without anyone suspecting a thing.
Episode: 5x03 | Airdate: Feb 18, 2008
A team of hustlers try out notorious scams on members of the public in Las Vegas. Jess poses as the hotel inspector from hell so she can steal guests' belongings.
Episode: 5x04 | Airdate: Feb 25, 2008
A team of hustlers try out notorious scams on members of the public in Las Vegas, including employing a cunning technique to steal the pot in a blackjack game.
Episode: 5x05 | Airdate: Mar 3, 2008
A team of hustlers try out scams on the Las Vegas public. A group of tourists are taken for a ride as their luggage is stolen and Jess makes off with a slot player's coin bucket.
Episode: 5x06 | Airdate: Mar 10, 2008
A team of hustlers try out scams on members of the public in Las Vegas. They leave two people stranded in the desert minus their luggage, while Jess turns $10 into $20 in no time.
Episode: 5x07 | Airdate: Mar 17, 2008
A team of hustlers try out notorious scams on members of the public in Las Vegas, and offer advice to businesses on how to avoid being scammed.
Episode: 5x08 | Airdate: Mar 24, 2008
A team of hustlers try out notorious scams on members of the public in Las Vegas. They leave two unsuspecting members of the public stranded in the desert, minus their luggage.
Episode: 5x09 | Airdate: Mar 31, 2008
A team of hustlers try out notorious scams on members of the public in Las Vegas. They leave two unsuspecting people stranded in the desert, minus their luggage.
Episode: 5x10 | Airdate: Apr 7, 2008
A team of hustlers try out notorious scams on members of the public in Las Vegas. They leave two unsuspecting members of the public stranded in the desert, minus their luggage.
Episode: 6x01 | Airdate: Oct 9, 2008
Jess takes a man for 2,000 pounds in the sweetheart scam and a celebrity is challenged to a round of golf in Celebrity Con Games.
Episode: 6x02 | Airdate: Oct 16, 2008
A team of hustlers try out scams on the public. They show how luck is always on their side in a Harley Street poker game, while Joanna Page is the victim in Celebrity Con Games.
Episode: 6x03 | Airdate: Oct 23, 2008
A team of hustlers try out scams on the public. They carry out the classic 419 Scam and make a quick 5,000 pounds from a totally unsuspecting couple in the process.
Episode: 6x04 | Airdate: Oct 30, 2008
A team of hustlers try out scams on the public. They run a blackjack scam with a twist, while Tara Palmer Tomkinson is challenged by Alex in Celebrity Con Games.
Episode: 6x05 | Airdate: Nov 6, 2008
A team of hustlers try out scams on the public. They carry out The Wire, taking 750 pounds a time in their racing scam, while Dick and Dom are duped in Celebrity Con Games.
Episode: 6x06 | Airdate: Nov 13, 2008
The gang carry out the art scam, Alex and Paul show how thieves can prey on a handbag, and it's Chico time in Celebrity Con Games.
Episode: 6x07 | Airdate: Nov 20, 2008
A team of hustlers try to scam the public, including a money laundering scheme and a holiday money exchange scam. A celebrity is challenged with a walnut in Celebrity Con Games.
Episode: 6x08 | Airdate: Nov 27, 2008
In the Psychic Scam, Paul sees into a woman's future and rips her off. Scott Mills battles with the hustlers in Celebrity Con Games.
Episode: 6x09 | Airdate: Dec 4, 2008
The hustlers make a killing in the Double Antique Scam. In Celebrity Con Games, Paul cooks up a surprise for Aldo Zilli.
Episode: 6x10 | Airdate: Dec 11, 2008
A Greek translator earns the hustlers a tidy profit in the Go-Between Scam and the Celebrity Con Games dupe is Steve Bucknall.
Episode: 7x01 | Airdate: May 21, 2009
Jess persuades a man to take a gift through international customs, a good deed that could land him in jail.
Episode: 7x02 | Airdate: May 28, 2009
The gang sabotage a tourist's car and they rip off airport passengers by selling cheap foreign currency.
Episode: 7x03 | Airdate: Jun 4, 2009
The gang show how trusting a foreign policeman could leave you stranded abroad without a passport.
Episode: 7x04 | Airdate: Jun 11, 2009
Alex poses as a footballer with Jess as his WAG to pull a fast one on an exclusive yacht hire company.
Episode: 7x05 | Airdate: Jun 18, 2009
Alex and Jess pose as stall holders selling carpets in a Spanish street market, but the buyers are in for a nasty surprise.
Episode: 7x06 | Airdate: Jun 25, 2009
The team of hustlers demonstrates how a scooter can separate tourists from their valuables, while athlete Iwan Thomas is tripped up in a Celebrity Con Game.
Episode: 7x07 | Airdate: Jul 2, 2009
Jess reveals the sinister side to friendly strangers selling lucky heather, while TV presenter Michael Underwood is snookered in the latest Celebrity Con Game.
Episode: 7x08 | Airdate: Jul 9, 2009
Paul sets up a kiosk in a Spanish holiday resort, planning to ruin tourists' holidays by selling phonecards that will cost customers an absolute fortune.
Episode: 7x09 | Airdate: Jul 16, 2009
Paul pulls a fast one by switching real money for fake notes. Jess has a flat tyre so she just steals another one from a helpful stranger.
Episode: 7x10 | Airdate: Jul 23, 2009
Paul demonstrates the Razzle, the most crooked fairground game in history. Ex-EastEnder Joel Beckett chalks up a loss in a pool hustle.
Episode: 8x01 | Airdate: Jan 14, 2010
Alex, Paul and Jess go shopping for expensive sports cars and drive away with a big pay day, and pull off a miracle smoking cure scam.
Episode: 8x02 | Airdate: Jan 21, 2010
Alex, Paul and Jess go deep undercover to scam a charity banquet. Celebrity hustler Emilia Fox talks a helpful passer-by out of his cash.
Episode: 8x03 | Airdate: Jan 28, 2010
A lady's bag theft starts a shocking chain of events. Celebrity hustler Caprice has to be rescued after she runs out of beginner's luck.
Episode: 8x04 | Airdate: Feb 4, 2010
An antique shop owner receives an unwanted package and ends up losing a fortune. Celebrity hustler Danielle Lloyd is once bitten twice shy.
Episode: 8x05 | Airdate: Feb 4, 2010
Jess fights the law to fleece some film fans. Iain Lee uses his gift for the gab to become a celebrity hustler.
Episode: 8x06 | Airdate: Feb 11, 2010
Two student flathunters get stung by some hustling estate agents and a doctor, and Greg Rusedski stings jewellers in the celebrity hustle.
Episode: 8x07 | Airdate: Feb 11, 2010
A text leads to the hustlers driving away in a man's pride and joy. Lucy Pinder pulls a stunt under someone's nose in the celebrity hustle.
Episode: 8x08 | Airdate: Feb 18, 2010
Jess promises some clubbers their dream evening but it ends up as a nightmare. Emma Willis gets food for thought in a restaurant scam.
Episode: 8x09 | Airdate: Feb 25, 2010
Alex and Paul play the heroes at a cash machine, but then pull a card trick. Huey Morgan wins big in a card game in the celebrity hustle.
Episode: 8x10 | Airdate: Feb 25, 2010
Alex and Jess enjoy a slap-up lunch while restaurant staff do the hustling for them. Rick Edwards gets a bank job in the celebrity hustle.
Episode: 9x01 | Airdate: Jul 29, 2010
Ex-Busted frontman Matt Willis goes undercover as a security engineer in the most audacious scam to date, under the nose of a jewellery shop's manager.
Episode: 9x02 | Airdate: Jul 29, 2010
Strictly Come Dancing Star Brendan Cole swaps the dancefloor for the boxing ring as he goes undercover as Woody, a boxing trainer who says the match is rigged.
Episode: 9x03 | Airdate: Aug 5, 2010
Zoe Salmon goes undercover as a Dept for Transport officer. Can she convince the marks they've just bought a dodgy motor and drive it away from under their noses?
Episode: 9x04 | Airdate: Aug 12, 2010
Model and radio host Lisa Snowdon goes undercover at an art auction. She helps the hustlers rope in some marks, persuading them to buy a worthless painting.
Episode: 9x05 | Airdate: Aug 19, 2010
Antony Costa goes undercover selling watered-down alcohol. The hustlers persuade some marks to take part in a Trading Standards sting operation to catch him.
Episode: 9x06 | Airdate: Aug 26, 2010
Liberty X singer Kelli Young goes undercover as a cleaner. Her job is to ruin a painting that's been hired for a photoshoot and make a mark think it is their fault.
Episode: 9x07 | Airdate: Sep 3, 2010
Hollyoaks actor Ben Hull plays a fake investor in a car buying scheme, which turns out to be a devious ruse to separate a couple of marks from their money.
Episode: 9x08 | Airdate: Sep 10, 2010
Jonathan Ansell, former member of pop-opera boyband G4, goes undercover to persuade hopefuls attending a fake TV advert audition that the whole set-up is legit.
Episode: 9x09 | Airdate: Sep 17, 2010
Abi Titmuss goes undercover to persuade some marks that they are the long lost relatives of an eccentric millionaire. Plus, the hustlers pull off the Scareware Scam.
Episode: 9x10 | Airdate: Sep 17, 2010
EastEnders star Rob Kazinsky goes undercover as a cab driver, ferrying some marks across London to return a cash deposit in return for some hired jewels.
Episode: 10x01 | Airdate: Sep 5, 2011
Actress Roxanne Pallett goes undercover to help the hustlers rob a watch store, while new recruits Polly and Jazz scam a passer-by using a faulty removal box.
Episode: 10x02 | Airdate: Sep 12, 2011
Pop Idol's Gareth Gates plays the role of a stock market trader in a bogus business scam, while new recruits Polly and Jazz join up to con a businessman out of his possessions.
Episode: 10x03 | Airdate: Sep 19, 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.
Episode: 10x04 | Airdate: Sep 26, 2011
Dance act Diversity's front man Ashley Banjo goes undercover in an art scam. Paul and Polly show why you should never leave expensive camera equipment hanging around your neck.
Episode: 10x05 | Airdate: Oct 3, 2011
Crimewatch presenter Rav Wilding experiences the wrong side of the law as he becomes a guest hustler, persuading a student to invest in gold chains that are being sold off.
Episode: 10x06 | Airdate: Oct 10, 2011
Hollyoaks actress Jennifer Metcalfe goes undercover in a lottery syndicate scam, while Jess goes cold calling as a salesperson offering great deals for a satellite TV company.
Episode: 10x07 | Airdate: Oct 24, 2011
Hollyoaks actress Sarah Jayne Dunn goes undercover with Alex in a scam involving luxury watches, and Paul poses as a security guard for a local shopping precinct.
Episode: 10x08 | Airdate: Oct 31, 2011
Colin Murray goes undercover as a poker magazine journalist, helping the hustlers persuade a mark to cheat in a private poker game. But the tables are turned on the cheater.
Episode: 10x09 | Airdate: Nov 7, 2011
TV presenters Colin and Justin go undercover as wealthy landowners, while Jess and Polly persuade residents in a suburban neighbourhood to cough up the cash for their taxi fare.
Episode: 10x10 | Airdate: Jan 20, 2012
Actress Adele Silva joins the hustlers in a scam which involves offering a mark the chance to invest in sections of the Forth Railway Bridge and earn an annual toll fee.
Episode: 11x01 | Airdate: Jan 27, 2012
Ex-Boyzone member Shane Lynch goes undercover as a tramp to help the Hustlers pull off a devious heist, and the team join forces to con a couple of young guys with a card trick.
Episode: 11x02 | Airdate: Feb 3, 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.
Episode: 11x03 | Airdate: Feb 10, 2012
Radio 1 DJ Nihal joins the Hustlers to help con two unsuspecting marks into buying a beautiful bronze sculpture, the catch being that it doesn't belong to them in the first place.
Episode: 11x04 | Airdate: Feb 17, 2012
TV presenter Laura Hamilton helps the Hustlers pull off a scam in which a mark is accused of stealing cash from Jess. Alex turns text pest to con another poor mark.
Episode: 11x05 | Airdate: Feb 24, 2012
Shameless and EastEnders star Jody Latham helps the Hustlers pull off a gambling scam and Paul plays a tramp who cons a mark after finding an envelope full of cash in the street.
Episode: 11x06 | Airdate: Mar 2, 2012
Gemma Atkinson joins the Hustlers to help them attempt their biggest-ever money heist, a real-life game of Grand Theft Auto with over 500,000 pounds' worth of supercars at stake.
Episode: 11x07 | Airdate: Mar 9, 2012
Actor Marcus Patrick joins the team in a con involving some buried treasure. Jess and Alex have two poor marks wishing they'd never been tempted to buy bargain goods in a pub.
Episode: 11x08 | Airdate: Mar 16, 2012
Ex-Coronation Street star Lucien Laviscount takes on a new role as guest Hustler when he joins the team for a devious con based in the antiques world.
Episode: 11x09 | Airdate: Mar 23, 2012
Blue Peter star Konnie Huq joins the Hustlers in a get-rich-quick scam involving time-share deals on a Scottish castle, while Jess and Alex attempt to pull off a devious car scam.
Episode: 11x10 | Airdate: Mar 30, 2012
Joe Calzaghe and, EastEnders star, Sid Owen join the Hustlers in a crazy con involving stamps that turns out to be the strangest scam in the history of the Real Hustle.
Episode: S02 Special | Airdate: Dec 17, 2006 (60 min)
Alex, Paul and Jess demonstrate how easy it can be to fleece shoppers out of their Christmas spending money.
Episode: S03 Special | Airdate: Feb 17, 2007
A team of hustlers try out notorious scams on members of the public, including stealing thousands of pounds in an elaborate con trick in a pub, and a dangerous pickpocketing scam.
Episode: S06 Special | Airdate: Dec 19, 2008 (60 min)
The top 10 scams from the first five series of The Real Hustle, as voted for by visitors to the Real Hustle website and performed by Alex Conran, Paul Wilson and Jessica Clement.