A Wheel of Fortune contestant, who lately turned 80, celebrated in type as she received greater than $92,000 on Friday’s (September 26) episode after immediately fixing the Bonus Spherical puzzle.
The contestant in query was Meredith Holt from Hobe Sound, Florida, who advised Ryan Seacrest that she and her 5 buddies sing at weddings and birthday events because the “5 Merediths,” all sporting blonde wigs to match Holt’s personal hair.
Along with singing, Holt additionally revealed she is a eager golfer, taking part in 4 days per week. She even managed to persuade Vanna White to participate in an upcoming member-guest event.
Holt went up towards Will Dennis, a Mumford & Sons superfan from Newton, Pennsylvania, and Tara Yarbrough, a married mom of three teenage boys, from Zephyrhills, Florida.
It was a robust begin for Holt, who rapidly solved the $2K Toss-Up puzzle. Her success continued within the Thriller Spherical and the Specific Spherical, growing her winnings to $15,849 money and a visit to Eire.
Dennis tried a comeback within the Triple Toss-Up and Pace-Up rounds, but it surely wasn’t sufficient to topple Holt, who received the episode with $17,849. Dennis completed second with $10,100, whereas Yarbrough ended final with $1,950.
Heading into the Bonus Spherical, Holt chosen the “What Are You Doing” class and launched Seacrest to her husband, David, who was cheering her on from the sidelines.
Confronted with a three-word puzzle, Holt picked the extra letters “G, P, C, and A” to go together with the already given “R, S, T, L, N, and E.” This gave her a puzzle board that learn: “E _ P T _ _ N G / _ _ / P _ C _ E T S.”
Holt wasted no time in answering. As quickly because the ten-second timer began, she nailed it with “Emptying My Pockets.”
Seacrest then opened the prize envelope to disclose that Holt received an additional $75,000, giving her a grand complete of $92,849, plus the journey to Eire. She additionally broke a curse after the $75,000 wasn’t chosen all final season.
Followers jumped onto social media to react to Holt’s huge win, with one YouTube commenter writing, “That is unbelievable. Nice job Meredith.”
“We lastly acquired our first $75,000 winner within the Ryan Seacrest period!!!” mentioned one other.
“WOW… EXCELLENT SOLVE,” one other added.
One other wrote, “She certainly shall be emptying her pockets with loads of cash on that one. And at 80 too. Been a very long time since I can keep in mind a sport present with any person that age successful. However anyhow excellent, and one of many higher really feel good tales we’ve seen on TV all 12 months.”
“Approach to go, Meredith! You probably did an important job on this one!” mentioned one fan.
“, it truly is wonderful how the present manages to search out contestants who’ve one thing in frequent with Vanna….{golfing}! And Meredith was undoubtedly a extremely good instance tonight,” one other added.
“Congratulations to Meredith successful 75k and a giant 92k to finish the week,” one commenter acknowledged.
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