The Value Is Proper’s George Grey at all times appears so clean and excellent at his job. He has been the announcer on the present since 2011, calling out contestants’ names and urging them to “Come on down!”
Now, in an unique interview with TV Insider, Grey admits he has an enormous secret: He’s at all times messing up contestants’ names, however most viewers at house would by no means understand it.
“In case your title’s Andrea, [Ann dreea] I’ll name you Andrea [Awn drea]. If it’s Tara [Tare-a] I’ll name you Tara [Tar-a]. In case your final title was Wojaho, I’ll name you Smith. It’s a prepare wreck,” he confessed.
“I’m going out in entrance of the viewers and do some what we name warm-up for a pair moments earlier than we begin the present. And I at all times say, ‘I simply need you to be ready. I’m going to mess up your title. So I’ll attempt to do my best possible, however I’m going to butcher it, and I’m sorry,’” he admitted.
Nonetheless, the sport present has a secret manner to assist Grey keep away from gaffes. “Every time I say a reputation, irrespective of how unsuitable I say it, there’s someone on stage that holds up a cue card, and in enormous, ginormous letters, is that individual’s title, so first and final title. It doesn’t matter what I do to their title, it’s nonetheless there. In order that’s, that’s how foolproof we’ve gotten,” The Value Is Proper announcer mentioned.
“Yeah, that occurs on a regular basis the place, you recognize, is it Caribbean or Caribbean, proper? And I’ll ask the producers, and typically they’ll simply say ‘tomato tomato. It’s your alternative.’ However I do know someone’s gonna go, ‘He’s doing it unsuitable.’”
grey additionally revealed a little bit about how TPIR is filmed. The present airs 195 new episodes a 12 months.
“Again in Bob [Barker]’s day, I consider they shot, I feel it was one a day after which two on Thursdays. So we’d have off Friday and be capable to golf and have a protracted weekend. Once I got here on 15 years in the past, we have been usually doing two a day, and each uncommon every so often, we do three. And now it’s the opposite manner round. We usually do three each every so often, like if we’re doing a prime-time episode day, or one thing like that, then we’ll do two. So it type of depends upon how they construct the schedule. In idea, we may do it, it may take 195 days. Or we, in the event you may determine learn how to shoot 12 a day, they’d have us out of there in a few weeks.”
Once they have completed filming for the day Grey, host Drew Carey, the fashions, and the crew typically exit to a bar down the road from the studio and hang around as “one huge household.”
Season 53 is winding down because it ends on the finish of June, however followers can count on Grey again for 54, in addition to some new issues. “We begin each season with a bang. We at all times have a brand new sport, so there’ll be a brand new sport. There’ll at all times be a brand new enjoyable piece on the set to take a look at or a distinct shade. We at all times, combine it up. We really return and begin our subsequent season on the finish of July,” he ended.