Wheel of Fortune fans in the US were left screaming at their television sets on Thursday after a contestant twice blew the opportunity to bank $1 million.
The popular gameshow saw guest Tara Brown defy the odds and land her wheelspin on the top prize on two occasions. But sadly that’s where her luck ended on the Pat Sajak and Vanna White hosted show.
Contestants on the American version of show are able to win the prize in a bonus round if they land on the wedge and then guess a letter correctly and solve the final puzzle. Tara’s first opportunity arose in a ‘Let There Be Light’ category that was just two letters short of completion.
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It read:” BULB, BEA__N, SUN, STARS”. Presenter Pat duly asked her for one of the missing characters, prompting her to hesitate, before plumping for “H”.
After the audience gasped in horror, one of Tara’s competitors stepped in to correctly fill the voids to spell out the word, ‘BEACON’. Tara, from South Carolina was soon given the chance to redeem herself – only to put her foot in it again.
This time -albeit in more difficult circumstances – she wrongly answered again and left the show with nothing, whilst competitor Zoe Tsongalis won the episode and took home a much more modest sum of $28,000.
Responding to Tara’s disastrous performance on X (formerly Twitter), meanwhile, one user rued: “Who screens these people?” Another exclaimed: “She just blew the chance at $1M with that H guess!!!”
A third simply asked in shock: “H?” And a fourth said: “Oh she redeemed herself! Landed on a million again and crushed it!”
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Last month the show was hit with controversy after a contestant was “robbed” of $40,000 – despite appearing to give the correct answer. California resident Megan stepped up to the plate this week and was faced with guessing the two word answer for the category of ‘living thing’. Host Pat showed the puzzle board which read ‘__N_’’_R____’. A few correct letter guesses later and Megan had ‘P_N_’ ‘_RC__D’ to work with.
With only a few seconds left to guess the answer, Megan started blurting things out, before giving her final guess of “pink orchid”, that sounded like “something orchid”. The timer went off revealing the answer to be pink orchid – which left fans fuming.
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