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Ryan Seacrest Reveals If He Had First Day Jitters connected ‘Wheel of Fortune’ (Exclusive)
Time to officially rename it the Wheel of Misfortune.
That's what three contestants learned the hard mode connected the Sept. 18 occurrence of Wheel of Fortune. The trio of Melissa Brickey, Brent Lau and Tanijah Johnson experienced specified a drawstring of bad luck that even caller host Ryan Seacrest and the show's longtime star Vanna White were astonished.
On the episode, the 3 contestants were spinning during the Crossword Round, when each of them landed connected "bankrupt" successful 3 consecutive spins.
"Should we person a speech with this wheel?" Ryan joked, earlier asking the wheel, "What are you doing to us?"
And it lone got worse erstwhile Brent's adjacent rotation landed connected "lose a turn," prompting Ryan to inquire the group, "Who did thing atrocious earlier they got here?"
Tanijah's adjacent rotation did let her to conjecture a letter, but she was instantly deed with different "bankrupt," arsenic was Melissa.
All of which prompted Ryan—who precocious took implicit for erstwhile host Pat Sajak—to quip, "So, I'm caller here. I've ne'er seen thing similar this before."
The 49-year-old past urged Brent to rotation again and "break this curse," nevertheless Brent landed connected "lose a turn" yet again.
The American Idol host couldn't clasp backmost however stunned helium was, turning his cohost and pleading, "Vanna? What is going on?"
The radical past landed connected "bankrupt" erstwhile again, prompting some Ryan and Tanijah to remainder their heads connected the instrumentality successful exasperation.
Luckily, things finally turned astir for the 3 with Melissa's adjacent spin, which landed connected $600 and eventually enabled them to lick the "Facial Features" puzzle: Eyelashes, pupils, cheeks, lips. Melissa yet went connected to triumph the episode, taking a expansive full of $60,050.
And contempt having conscionable started his Wheel of Fortune run, this is not the archetypal clip Ryan has recovered himself successful uncharted Wheel territory.
During the Sept. 16 episode, contestant Vivian Tran landed connected the "one million" instrumentality wedge and successfully landed connected the million-dollar envelope during the bonus round.
"My bosom is racing," Ryan said. "This is simply a archetypal for me. You're playing for $1 million."
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Unfortunately, Vivian was incapable to lick the puzzle and missed retired connected the million—but inactive went location with $27,300 and a travel to Europe.
Although Ryan is inactive caller astatine hosting the iconic crippled show, he's already near rather an content connected Vanna.
"He's doing an unthinkable job," she precocious told E! News. "It's not easy. He makes it look easy."
She knew he would beryllium fantastic from the get-go, adding, "He's so talented, he's truthful professional, he's truthful bully astatine what helium does. I'm truthful thankful."
As Ryan joked to E!, "If Wheel of Fortune is offered to you, you conscionable don't accidental no. You'll person atrocious karma for the remainder of your TV life."
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