Loneliness - Deal or No Deal?

My dad has been single for ages and he said he isn't lonely, he claims he potters along quite merrily on his own thank you very much. Still, it doesn't stop me worrying about him or wondering if his protestations of non-loneliness are entirely true. I just got married last year and so am still in the sickeningly in love stage but I still have quite a few friends who live a solitary life.

One of my friends is single at the moment and he claims that life is terrible without human contact and he is desperately looking for someone to share his life. He's tried some dating sites and so forth but with little luck. He said that it's just difficult to know where to go to meet people.

This got me thinking. Place to meet people, human contact...Perhaps the answer is to apply to go on Deal or No Deal!

Now bear with me, that may seem like a mad statement but lets face it - you get to meet at least 21 other people on the first day alone and you may have already seen them on the tv (I'm not sure if you get to watch the programme just before going on it?).

It sounds as if they all get to spend time in the hotel so you would be with all the other people and you could go out for a drink - you all have the same reason for being there so you have at least one thing in common and each time you open your box in the game you may get a hug or a kiss from the player - so there's the human contact right there!

Plus, as one player leaves another enters so there will always be a supply of at least one new person per game. Out of all the contestants there, surely not all of them are married and even if they are they may have friends who are single and lonely and want to meet someone.

Also, to add to all this good stuff you may win a nice amount of money to go for meals etc with your new friend - if they are a contestant too they may have won a large amount of money too and so you may be able to rule out the whole golddigging worries. Even if you can't find anyone on the show, your face is being beamed out to millions of people in the UK, surely the TV time alone is enough to give you enough publicity to get your message out there.

All this and you get to meet the lovely Noel Edmonds! Really, what more could anyone ask?