The marketing executive caused a stir among viewers as she clashed with Nick
Saskia wasn’t pleased with Nick’s tactics on Destination X(Image: BBC)
Destination X viewers have called out a Birmingham contestant for ‘hypocritical’ behaviour on the show after a clash with another player.
The BBC show, presented by comedian Rob Brydon, sees contestants travel across Europe on a bus, with the windows blacked out and no knowledge of their location.
The goal is to identify their current location by exploring locations, gathering clues, and overcoming challenges, with the person furthest from the correct location eliminated each episode.
While only one can take home the £100,000 prize money, Saskia, 25, a marketing executive from Birmingham, caused a stir when she accused endurance athelete Nick of game-playing.
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Only seven players were left standing at the start of the last episode, with one set to be axed tonight after a cliffhanger ending.
Saskia, 25, a marketing executive from Birmingham, said before the show that she wanted to be a ‘team player’, adding: “I believe in playing fair, in equality, that there’s strength and power in numbers.
“But we’ll have to see. I just want to make sure I play a fair game.”
After Saskia and Nick teamed up during a challenge on the last episode to win an extra clue, she was left shocked when Nick said he wanted to point the other players away from Venice, and not tell his so-called confidant Darren about the clue.
He told Darren that the square they had seen ‘without any doubt wasn’t in Venice’.
Nick on the Destination X bus(Image: BBC)
But Saskia later whispered to Darren that they were ‘going to Venice’. She said: “There was a stall with a gondola, Nick didn’t want to tell you…he’s got no loyalties to anyone.”
The doublecross didn’t go down well with some viewers. One wrote on X: “Why has Saskia got it in for Nick so much for playing a game when 1 it’s literally a game and 2 she’s also playing a game #DestinationX.”
A second said: “I really dislike ppl like Saskia, why are you getting so mad at Nick playing the f****** game. YOU ARE ALL GAME PLAYERS IN A REALITY COMPETITION SHOW. Only ONE person wins the money, of course ppl are gonna start hiding clues from you.”
“Saskia acting like nick is such a villain for not telling people all the clues as if she didn’t do the exact same thing before,” a third agreed.
A fourth chimed in: “Bad hypocrite Saskia”, while a fifth commented: “Saskia is such a snake.”
And a sixth added: “Saskia giving dirty looks at nick for trying to divert the others like it’s not what she’s convinced everyone to do every week.”
But others have applauded Saskia for her game play. One wrote: “Also surely me and Paul can’t be the only ones enjoying how Saskia is playing the game?
“She’s actually making it entertaining rather than it being a borefest with Nick basically auto winning.”