There are many injuries you'd expect Noel Edmonds to pick up on the set of Deal Or No Deal. Retina meltdown from his horrible shirts, perhaps, or random punches in the mouth from contestants who remember the Mr Blobby single.
But that's not what's wrong with Noel Edmonds. Thanks to Deal Or No Deal, Noel Edmonds now has RSI. RSI of the mouth from saying that "22 boxes…" line every day? RSI of the eyebrows from having to look sad when an idiot contestant only wins 10p? No. Noel Edmonds has RSI of the elbow. From picking up the Deal Or No Deal telephone every now and then. Honestly.
Deal Or No Deal is literally the show that everyone is talking about, so long as they're elderly, unemployed or ironic students. For those of you who haven't seen Deal Or No Deal – you haven't seen Deal Or No Deal? It's on a billion times a week – this is how it works…
Noel Edmonds stands in a room and tries his hardest to convince 22 simple people that they have a sort of supernatural power over some numbers on a piece of paper in a box by talking endlessly about energy and focus and how incredible every single game is, even though he's conducting an even more random game of Battleships. And every now and then a man with a computer – possibly someone who used to be in Coronation Street – says a number down a telephone into the ear of Noel Edmonds.
And therein lies the problem. Constantly having to lift up the telephone to talk to the Deal Or No Deal banker has knackered Noel Edmonds' elbow. Because it's quite a heavy phone, you see. Ironic really, since we've got RSI from turning Deal Or No Deal off whenever it comes on the telly. Noel Edmonds told The Telegraph:
"It's a bit ridiculous, but I am in agony. After 40 years in entertainment, I can at last boast that I have suffered an industrial injury. The phone is pretty heavy and I have to pick it up a dozen times a show. We shoot three shows a day and it got so painful that I could hardly pick the bleeding thing up. I didn't know what was wrong so I went to a consultant in Bristol last week and she diagnosed it as repetitive strain injury, rather like tennis elbow. She said she was a huge fan of the show and was sure that it must be from picking up the phone."
Poor Noel Edmonds. Surely somewhere there must be a charity to help this terrible affliction – just £10 a month could help Noel's predicament. Give a man a TV show and he'll annoy you for a day, remember, but buy him a bluetooth headset so that he doesn't have to lift a receiver and he'll annoy you forever.
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Elbow Strain A Big Deal For TV Noel – Guardian
[story by Stuart Heritage]
Mr J Arthur says
RSI my arse. Noel Edmonds has” Bankers Wrist” which is usually suffered by youngsters
up to the age of 11. Noel has probably caught it from practicing too much self abuse
since his wife left