A 99 To Beat contestant has admitted that he sabotaged his competitors and would have thrown anyone under the bus for cash - and does understand why the show has been likened to Squid Games. 

The brand new programme, which is hosted by soap brothers Adam and Ryan Thomas, hit our screens late last month and has seen 100 players battle it out in a number of tasks in a bid to win £25,000. 

Many of those who have watched it have likened to a more PG version of Netflix's Squid Games, set in South Korea, which sees 546 people try and get their hands on 45.6 billion won. 

However they are soon left lost for words when they realise that the last one standing will be the only person left alive. 

In an exclusive chat with MailOnline, player Will Miles, 19, from Bury, Greater Manchester, opened up about his time on the programme and said that people were making comparisons during filming.  

Will said: 'There was, it was funny. I think Squid Games is very much, is a big challenge. 

'You've got people quite physically fit. 99 To Beat there are things that anyone could do.'

He added: 'I get the it's the same concept and result of Squid Games, it's like the Hunger Games - last man standing kind of thing. 

'There was people my age, 19, to people in the late 70s. There was so many different characters.'

Filming for 99 To Beat took place in July last year and lasted two weeks. 

The 100 contestants all stayed in a hotel in Reading, had breakfast early in the morning and then hopped onto a coach at 7:30am to head to the studio.

According to laborer Will - who dreams of being on ITV's Big Brother one day - some days would last around 10 hours.

They were also given a few days off from filming and he explored the town of Reading. 

The competition is currently in full swing and the first few episodes saw the players helping each other out to get to the next round.

However Will thinks that was a massive error and they shouldn't have done that.  

He told us: 'I think the mistake people made, everyone's got their own plan going into it. Like I said, I was completely trying to sabotage everyone.

'There's no one I wouldn't have thrown under the bus. It was funny.

'I remember looking at them, looking around at some of them, and they're saying things like "we're friends forever now."

'And I'm thinking, you've known them for days, but when it comes down to it, you're gonna be crying because your new best friend completely shafted you.

'When you get to the last 90, you think it's alright, then you get to the last 80, then once you're in the last quarter of the show, you're thinking you know what I could do this.

'It's like, you know, on movies where there's just a group of friends, and then they get landed with a check, or one of them finds a load of money, and then they always said they'd split it.

'And then the kind of thinking, and then people change over money.

'Money changes everyone, everyone's got a prize, that's what I found out on that show.'

Without giving too much away, the teen teased that there is a lot more of his cheeky shenanigans to come.  

He added: 'So there's a certain challenge where I really, really did go out my way to sabotage some people. 

'So I hope they show that. And then I was very boastful of it in the interviews to create even more chaos. 

'So I'm hoping that they can portray that kind of I'm not being funny.

'I think there's a chance I'm going to become the most hated man on TV. But it is what it is.'

Last month viewers had two big complaints as Ryan and Adam Thomas' new ITV game show kicked off.  

During the first instalment, some rushed to X, formerly known as Twitter, to share their thoughts on what they were watching.

While some said they were going to turn it off, others thought that Corrie' Ryan and Emmerdale's Adam should have been interacting with the players much more than they did.

Meanwhile others compared it to the Netflix hit Squid Games. 

Watch 99 To Beat on ITV1 or stream on ITVX.