Heather Foster bridged the hole between being a stay-at-home mother and dealing as a information anchor. She give up her job to care for her kids and now she gained massive on the Thursday, February 20 episode of Wheel of Fortune.
Foster took a while away from her busy life in Wausau, Wisconsin, to play the sport present. She usually goes to museums and the library together with her kids. With the small quantity of free time that she has after working errands, Foster sits in her automotive in full silence. Earlier than spending most of her time together with her youngsters, Foster was an anchor for NewsChannel 7, the place she labored from 2015 to 2021.
Though the previous information anchor frolicked away from her kids, she didn’t have a lot luck in the beginning of the sport. Her opponents, Babatunde Oyelowo, a online game and anime lover who grew up in Japan, and Eric Dotterer, from New York, New York, who’s a frequent traveler and a world marathon runner, shortly and accurately answered the primary two puzzles.
Nevertheless, by the third puzzle, her luck circled. When each Oyelowo and Dotterer guessed letters that weren’t within the puzzle after which landed on the “Lose a Flip” wedge, Foster was capable of guess the letters within the puzzle and finally remedy it, bringing her complete to $3,700. The puzzle was “Life-Altering Expertise.”
By the fourth puzzle “Earlier than & After,” Foster was on a roll. She landed on the $3,500 wedge, the $10,000 wedge to avoid wasting for later and the boys she performed in opposition to each landed on “Bankrupt.” This introduced her complete to $19,550 after fixing “Wedding ceremony ring toss.”
“I really like this place,” she stated with a giggle. Host Ryan Seacrest stated that he did too.
Dotterer caught as much as Foster within the subsequent spherical, fixing the puzzle and profitable a visit. His complete was $19,324. Oyelowo stayed at $1,000. Through the Triple Toss Up, Dotterer gained $4,000 by guessing two of the puzzles and Foster earned $2,000 after guessing one, making Dotterer at the moment within the lead.
Through the closing puzzle, Foster guessed a lot of the letters and solved the puzzle, incomes $8,500 in that spherical. This introduced her complete to $30,050, bringing her to the Bonus Spherical. Dotterer ended with $23,324. Oyelowo resulted in third place with $1,000.
Foster chosen “What are you doing?” for the class. After being given, “R,S,T,L,N, and E,” she picked “M,D,G and O” as her letters. After her letters popped up, her puzzle regarded like “_R_DG_NG T_E G_ _.” Earlier than Seacrest might inform her she had 10 seconds to unravel, Foster shouted out, “Bridging the hole,” which was appropriate. The stay-at-home mother added $40,000 to her complete, leaving with $89,942 and a cruise to Iceland.
She tightly squeezed Seacrest after her win, who chuckled and advised her “Congratulations!”
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