Sonja Angelevska joins ITV’s Nobodys Fool debut series
Sonja Angelevska, a 32-year-old from Ipswich, will appear in nobodys fool when ITV launches the new reality quiz show at 9pm on Saturday, May 23. The debut series puts strategy, deception and intelligence on the same board, with contestants allowed to lie about their performances and achievements.
Ipswich and the casting advert
Angelevska has lived in Ipswich for the past nine years, and she says she applied after spotting a casting advert asking whether viewers considered themselves “the smartest person in the room.” Her partner pushed her to go for it after she hesitated, turning a casual advert into a television credit that now lands her in ITV’s newest quiz format.
That matters because the show is built around daily quiz rounds and players trying to convince the others they are more intelligent than they really are. For a contestant, that makes every answer part performance, part calculation, and the prize pot part of the pressure.
11 days last summer
The programme was filmed over 11 days last summer, then kept secret from contestants’ friends and family for almost a year. That long gap between filming and launch means viewers finally get the finished product after a stretch where the people taking part could not talk about it openly.
Angelevska described the atmosphere as intense because contestants were constantly questioning whether they could trust one another. She also said players who contributed the least to the prize pot risked causing the day’s winnings to be halved if they stayed in the competition.
Danny Dyer and Emily Atack
Danny Dyer and Emily Atack host the series, giving ITV a familiar presenting pair for a format that depends on bluffing as much as quick answers. Angelevska said Atack was “down to earth,” a useful detail for a show that leans on social pressure as heavily as trivia.
The launch on ITV1 and ITVX at 9pm on Saturday, May 23 gives the network a new reality quiz slot to test with an audience that will see whether the deception angle can hold across a full series. Angelevska’s first appearance becomes the local hook inside that wider launch, and her own framing of it as “the first day of school” fits a format where everyone starts with the same cover story and very little trust.
