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September 4, 2007Catching up with potential millionaires at lunchI went home this past weekend to visit my parents. On Sunday, we met up with family friends for lunch in Cheshire. I saw a number of friends I grew up with, hung out with babies, met fiancees.One friend's fiancee let spill that she had done a taping of Who Wants to be a Millionaire. She was prevented from talking about the show until after it airs, but it didn't stop us from trying to ascertain how much she had won. I noticed that she wasn't flashing any new jewelry, but she said that she wouldn't get any money (if she had won) until a few months after the air date. She also said that her episode wouldn't necessarily air. She also said that in the past six years only one person had made a million dollars, and only one woman who has aired has won. One of our friends took that to mean that she had won a million dollars. She said she couldn't say. Her fiancee had been her phone a friend, and he said that it was nerve-wracking. He sat by the phone all day waiting for the call (the tapings run all day and there's no schedule indicating when contestants will be taping). He said he had practiced. He had a world map taped to the wall; he had two computer screens in front of him, one of them tuned to Google and one to wikipedia. He said that when his fiancee phoned him he had no idea as to what the answer would be. My friend said that they now knew that the phone friend would have Google at his or her disposal and they've started phrasing questions to make them harder to search. There's a time limit of 30 seconds on the phone; her fiancee said that the time goes by really quickly. He said that now that he realizes you can end up on a game show, he's been applying to all sorts. He had taken the test along with my friend, but he said he didn't pass the meet and greet round. He's sent in applications to Are you smarter than a fifth grader? among other shows I hadn't heard of. My friend said that her air date would be sometime in December or January. I told her she had to email us to let us know. She reiterated that her episode might not air. I asked her if she'd call them to ask. She said she'd be on the phone immediately if she didn't see herself on the schedule. Posted by eku at September 4, 2007 10:47 AM Comments
That is so interesting to hear things from the contestant point of view. You'll have to let us know how she did. Posted by: teresa at September 7, 2007 2:53 AMyeah. i hope she remembers to let us know. i just found out that a friend of a friend of mine is also going to be taped for the show. it seems like appearing on this show is the new new thing to do! Posted by: e.ku at September 8, 2007 12:24 AMI've read that people do this for a living. That there's a subgroup of people who just try out for show after show, especially the reality ones. Posted by: teresa at September 8, 2007 12:51 AMi wonder if they can actually make a living doing that. and i wonder what they put on their tax forms as their profession . . . Posted by: e.ku at September 9, 2007 9:36 AMWow, how totally cool!! Definitely let us know how your friend's fiancee did, if you find out! The closest thing I have to knowing someone on a game show is a friend's letter got selected for This Old House. So the TV show crew went to her house and fixed the problem she wrote in about! I think her episode is supposed to air sometime this fall - I asked her to let me know when, so I could watch it! Posted by: irene at September 13, 2007 10:06 AMPost a comment
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