We lied our way onto Bargain Hunt with fake application - it backfired

Two women who appeared on Bargain Hunt dished some behind-the-scenes secrets from the show and even admitted to lying on their applications. 

Students Jodie Wood and Layla Milne starred on the hit BBC game show earlier this year and the pair made their mark as they went against expert Mark Stacey's, 60, advice and attempted to purchase an item they both fell in love with. 

They set their sights on a porcelain pig money box. However, the pair ran out of time while trying to negotiate and quickly settled on a porcelain tiger for £55.

Their appearance on the show, however, didn't go to plan as Jodie and Layla ultimately made a loss when their items went to auction. 

And Layla, who fell ill on the day of the auction, blamed the filming schedule for their losses. 

Jodie explained to the Express: 'It was a Wednesday in Grantham and there was no one there and there was no one in the building and hardly anyone online and stuff.

'From what the experts would say it was just like a potluck what you're gonna get at the auction days,' she added.

However, their lack of antiques knowledge - which they fibbed about during applications, also proved to be a problem.

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The pair admitted that they were selected to appear on the show after just one attempt - but only because they lied to show bosses. 

In fact, they originally applied for the show after a man who installed their alarm urged them to sign up after he also applied. 

He told them that BBC bosses 'wanted young people' to mix things up. 

However, they were stunned to discover that against all odds, the man ended up as their opposition

The women said: 'So we applied and we get to our shopping day and our opposition is the same man who told us to apply!' 

'We got there at eight in the morning and went, "It's you, you fixed our alarm, you told us to apply!" 

Ultimatelty the pair suffered a humilating defeat, making a loss at auction and walking away completely empty-handed. 

What''s more, they were left exhausted and bored, with Layla quipping: 'It was such a long day because we got there I think it was for 8am we didn't leave until about 5.30/6 ish. 

'It was such a long day but a lot of it was just waiting around, to be honest."

It comes after Bargain Hunt viewers slammed BBC bosses for an 'awful' change they made to the hit daytime show. 

During an instalment last week, viewers were taken to Nottinghamshire where host Christina Trevanion, 43, was joined by experts Thomas Forrester, 46, and Ochuko Ojiri, 52, who tried to help two teams make a profit at auction. 

Usually in each episode, an expert is assigned to either the red or blue team as they help them search for unique antiques.

And towards the end of the show, the BBC host will meet with the auctioneer to go over the items each team sourced. 

However, the daytime programme had done a format shakeup and the auctioneer's comments were stripped from the show. 

Fans took to X, formerly Twitter, to express their disappointment with the new format. 

One fan fumed: 'Bloody awful without the auctioneers comments.'; '@BBCBargainHunt Hi we enjoy watching #bargainhunt but why the change in format at the moment #BBC.' 

'Don't like these shortened shows miss auctioneers comments #bargainhunt.'