Florida Wheel of Fortune contestant sparks hilarity after getting answer wrong to food puzzle
Florida Wheel of Fortune contestant sparks hilarity after getting answer wrong to food puzzle with letters: ‘WARM TOASTED BA_ELS WITH LO_ AND CREAM CHEESE’
- A teacher went viral after she fluffed a simple answer on Wheel of Fortune
- As result of her gaffe, Angie Gautney was roundly mocked on Twitter
- In 2022, host Pat Sajak told social media to back off in making fun of contestants
A Wheel of Fortune candidate went viral for the wrong reasons after she failed at solving a simple puzzle in the Food & Drink category on the long-running game show.
Florida resident Angie Gautney appeared on the March 1 episode and had already earned over $6,000 when she attempted to solve the puzzle: ‘WARM TOASTED BA_ELS WITH LO_ AND CREAM CHEESE.’
‘I’m going to try and solve,’ Gautney said with little confidence after successfully guess there was a ‘B’ in the puzzle. She offered: ‘WARM TOASTED BAGELS WITH LOW AND CREAM CHEESE.’ ‘No, not right,’ host Pat Sajak, 76, said as the incorrect buzzer rang out.
The next contestant correctly asked for an ‘X’ to be displayed. That person guessed correctly: ‘WARM TOASTED BAGELS WITH LOX AND CREAM CHEESE.’
‘Yeah, that’s a much better recipe,’ Sajak said as co-host Vanna White revealed the correct answer.
In a Facebook post prior to the airing of her episode, Angie Gautney warned that it might be embarrassing
The puzzle that Gautney simply couldn’t solve
Bagels with cream cheese and lox, a cut of brined salmon, were brought to the US from Eastern Europe by Jewish immigrants more than 100 years ago and is one of the most popular breakfast foods on the East Coast.
Gautney, who works as a teacher at the Stetson Baptist Christian School in North Deland, Florida, still walked away from the show with $7,300 in prize money.
She announced her appearance on the show in a Facebook post on March 1.
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