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“I was on Wheel of Fortune in 2015. For the audition, there were about 80 of us in a hotel conference place in downtown Brooklyn. We performed a number of rounds of the video game, and the casting directors would convey to us to job our voices and how to solution appropriately. Then, there was a composed check with puzzles like you’d see in the reward spherical. We took a swift break, and when we arrived back again, they narrowed the team down to 18. About a few months later, I got a letter in the mail stating I experienced been picked to be on the exhibit! I flew out on a Thursday, taped Friday, and returned dwelling Saturday. They tape 6 reveals a working day, 40 times a calendar year. Vanna White was SO awesome. She came out in her jogging pants and a T-shirt to say hi to everyone and reminded us to obtain vowels.”
“The day of taping, we ended up bussed from the lodge to Sony Photos Studios at 6 a.m. There have been 18 contestants as well as two LA-centered alternates in situation anybody necessary to fall out final minute. The total early morning was used touring the studio, going about principles, training with the buzzer and the wheel, and likely above our intros. All the things was spelled out — each individual classification and each video game show legislation. Then, they break up us into teams of a few, and we went to set to start out taping. The woman I lost to was FREAKING Remarkable at the sport.
Though enjoying, I gained a excursion to London and Paris, and spun a ‘bankrupt,’ so I knowledgeable a total vary of emotions from the wheel. They were tremendous accommodating when it came to my vacation and built confident I could perform all-around my schedule to go. You do have to pay taxes on the prizes, so I refer to it as my ‘85%-off trip.’ My then-boyfriend and I resolved to increase Ireland to our itinerary, and they even paid out for our flights to London and property from Ireland, even while the vacation I received was just to go to London and Paris. Total, it was a truly constructive experience!”
—Anonymous
