The Price is right for one Strathmore resident

Times Reporter

 

Getting a chance to attend the American game show ‘The Price is Right’ can be exciting in itself, but hearing your named called to come on down makes it even more so. When Devon Christie, who prefers to go by her married name Hall, heard the words, ‘Devon Christie come on down’ she was ecstatic. 

Strathmore residents Hall and her husband Brent were on a trip down south this summer, exploring the coast, and decided to attend the show. 

“We got tickets beforehand. I had everything completely planned and…decided we were going to go down,” said Devon Hall.

“It was pretty fun, it’s just a really long process because you are there for literally four hours before they start taping. They bring you from holding room, to holding room, to holding room, but they psych everybody up a lot so when you get on there you’re really excited.”

Hall said the producers of the show do interviews with everyone in small groups and that’s how they pick the contestants. She said no one knows they have been picked until their name is called. 

“Hence you jumping up and down looking like an idiot. It’s all real,” said Hall. 

She and her husband were sitting in the front row, and she said Drew Carey came and spoke to them. She said Carey was really nice and spent time talking to everybody in the crowd between tapings. 

“They called me up in the second half of the show and then to get up on the stage I bid on two watches,” said Hall.

“I bid $1,500 for the two watches and everybody booed because they thought that I had bid too high but they ended up being $1,995 or whatnot.”

Because she won the bid she was brought up onto the stage and asked how would she like to win camping equipment, or a new car, which was a Nissan Juke. 

“I ended up winning the camping equipment, and then I got to spin the big wheel. There was a guy ahead of me who spun, and I think he spun a 75. I spun a 65 so I had to spin again and I ended up going over, so I didn’t make it to the final showcase,” said Hall. 

“They process everybody after the show’s done and they gave me a piece of paper to forfeit your prizes. I was like, why would on earth would you forfeit your prizes, and the woman said to me, well actually a lot of people do because they can’t afford to pay all the taxes on them.”

In order for Hall to claim her prizes she needs to pay 37 per cent of the cost, which she said works out to $918.

Hall was happy to have a chance to go on the show and said she would definitely take part in another game show if she had the chance.