Andy was the sole Fugitive who made it to the extraction point, after his wife Deb was captured at the last minute during the Hunted 2024 grand finale.

Throughout the season, Andy and Deb were clear front runners as they managed to avoid the Hunters at every turn.

Looking back at their time on the popular reality show, the married couple told Chattr that there was one thing that they credit their win too; their helpers.

“Our number one strategy was to rely on strangers and not have people we know help us. So without their help, we wouldn’t have had food, accommodation, or transport,” Deb said in a post-winning interview.

“We couldn’t have done it without the people we met,” Andy added. “Obviously we had some good strategies, but if people weren’t kind and hospitable and generous with their time and resources, then we didn’t have a game at all, because we were relying on people we don’t know.”

Why Deb and Andy’s helpers were so successful

Throughout the 2024 season of Hunted, many of the Fugitives have been betrayed by their helpers, like Akec and Joe, whose helper Malaan revealed their location to the Hunters, which led to their capture.

Deb and Andy explained that they had a strategy that encouraged their helpers to stick by their sides and not betray them.

“When they agreed to help us, our first thing was asking them ‘what would you guys do in this situation?’. We genuinely asked them for their help, and we said ‘it’s not just us, we’re a team now, we all want to win,'” Deb said.

She explained that she and Andy worked with their helpers and reminded them that they were all in the game together.

“Our helpers were the best helpers out there.” she said. “We spent a lot of time letting them know that throwing the Hunters off track was their role in our game.”

“[We said] if the Hunters come to their house you’re part of our team now, we’re a team that’s up against them.

“As soon as they [the helpers] had that realisation of, ‘Yeah, we want to be part of the winning team’ they just threw the Hunters completely off track. And there’s no way we could have done that without their help

“They felt like they were part of our gameplay, and they were giving us ideas and suggestions. So once they’re that invested, they don’t want to lose either, and they don’t want to see us lose.”

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