The Inheritance: Matt is cut from the will

In the penultimate episode of The Inheritance, two players were cut from The Deceased’s will and eliminated from the game. Matt and Ferg are the players missing out on a place in the final. 

A shock decision from Hafsah saw Matt disinherited at the final hurdle, taking home £4,800. 

Interview with Matt:

What were your first impressions of the house and The Executor?
The house was absolutely stunning. It's a beautiful location. It's incredible and the general feel of the place is lovely. The weather's been amazing, so how can we not have a nice time here? Rob was made for it, and I think he's made it an iconic role. 

What about your fellow players. What did you think when you first met then?
What an incredible mix of people. It's weird when you meet 12 individuals without any knowledge of them. You can’t have a free-flowing conversation, so you have to work out little bits about them as you go. Overall, I wouldn’t have wished to change a single person in it, whether it be for good or bad reasons, because you live and learn. What an amazing group of people I've had the privilege to share this experience with. I feel truly blessed that I've got to meet them. 

Did you have a strategy, and did you stick to it?
I had a strategy to just be myself. That was it. There was no gameplay, no skullduggery. I just believed in myself and my own capabilities. I want to leave here with my head held high, and I think I've done that with my integrity intact as well. I don't think I've left anything behind. I'm proud of how I handled myself in certain circumstances, and it will be something I look back on and think I did really well, I'm super proud of myself. I wouldn't have changed single thing; how I did it, everything I did, I would do it again. 

What about the requests, did you have a particular favourite?
My favourite, without a doubt, was climbing the tree. We went to the woods to collect honey, but we didn’t know what was going to be there when we arrived. Then we saw beehives, up the tree. Ferg and I decided that he was going to winch me up. It seemed straightforward, Ferg's down there with a bucket all he's got to do is catch the honey as it falls out. There was a bit of a breeze and he couldn’t see anything, the sun was blinding him. Honey went everywhere but the bucket. He was literally showering in honey; he resembled a melted candle! I had the best view in the house because I was directly above it. It was an incredible experience, and the funniest thing I've done in forever!

How does it feel to be leaving at this stage? 
Going into this I thought it would be great to get to the end and get a good chunk of money but leaving now, feels so right. More so because what I've got from this whole experience was something I wasn't expecting. I thought it was going to be just a bit of fun. But I've had a bit of an epiphany in here. About how I am as a person, how I am around people, how I listen to people, how I speak to people. I feel like I've stripped back the layers of who I was, and I've kind of rediscovered myself a little bit in here. It's made me really evaluate how I live my life going forward. When my name was called out last night, I felt like I was walking on a cloud. Although I didn't really come away with an awful lot of money, what I have come away with, money couldn't buy. Even if I won the entire pot, I wouldn't swap that for what I've gained from this experience for me, at my age, to rediscover, what is 'me'. If I go on holiday for two weeks, I'm still on my phone, I'm doing emails, I'm not switching off. It's made me realise that although we do have those little breaks in life, when do you have the opportunity to switch off from the entire outside world? 

Who do you think will win, and who would you like to win?
Each of them deserves it on their own merit. Whoever gets it, I've got no malice. Even Hafsah, she played a fantastic game. If she wins it, great. If Cam wins it, great. I literally don't mind, they're all great. 

What's your highlight of the entire experience?
I've just found it such an incredible experience. The joy I found, to find myself again, and I never thought in a billion years that I would find it on a game show! I think I came away with about four grand, so, it's not going to change much, but it's nice. The money is secondary, and it always was. 

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