Fired for Being Pregnant
It’s illegal for employers to discriminate against employees for things like being pregnant. Unfortunately, it’s all-too-common when it comes to working in show business. After model Brandi Cochran became pregnant with twins, she reported that producers started hurling insults at her, things like, “wide load coming through.”
The model, who’d worked with the show for six years, between 2002 and 2008, was ultimately terminated after taking maternity leave that year. She filed a lawsuit against the show in 2010, in which she won over $8 million. Cochran isn’t the only woman to report lousy behavior from behind the scenes on Price.
Home Viewer Showcases
During the show’s original air days in the 1950s, home viewers were able to submit their bids for showcases using postcards. Surprisingly enough, viewers at home often came much closer to the actual prices than on-stage contestants. In the event of a tiebreaker, both parties were informed via telegram and went into a tie-breaker round in which they had to guess the price of a new, specific item.
The last time a Home Viewer Showcase was featured on the show was back in 2011. In 2011, rather than using postcards to chime in, home viewers simply put in their bids on the show’s website.
Oh, No They Didn’t
During a taping in 2015, comedian Danielle Perez found herself the winner of a shiny new treadmill. Perez had been in a tragic accident in the past that caused her to lose both of her feet. Luckily, she was a great sport about the whole deal. The audience seemed to tense up quite a bit when the prizes came up, and it became clear that’s what was happening.
In an interview after the show, Perez laughed it off, saying, “you can’t write this. You can’t make this up.” She even started her own meme, featuring a still of her face from the moment it happened, with a caption that read, “when you win a treadmill on national TV, but you have no feet.”
Attempting to Cheat at 3 Strikes
When playing 3 Strikes, the contestant must draw red and white balls to reveal either a number or a strike. In this case, this woman thought she could get away with slipping the strikes back in the bag without anyone noticing – she was wrong.
She starts strong, pulling a white ball with number one, and placing it on the board correctly. She gets one more number – and one more strike – before she starts to get a bit nervous about missing out on the prize truck that’s up for grabs. Drew Carey watches as she grabs not one, but two red balls and tries to drop them back into the baseball-shaped bag. The host catches her, calling her out on the shenanigans both times.
Gets Ten Chances: Doesn’t Need Any of Them
When a show is on the air for so many decades, there’s bound to be a mistake made here and there. And, when you’re dealing with a game show that gives away millions of dollars in cash and prizes, it’s usually a pretty expensive mistake. Just take the time Bob Barker was unpleasantly surprised by an “oops” in the game Ten Chances.
During a standard version of the game, the host would lift a giant card to reveal a jumble of numbers that the contestant must unscramble to guess the final prize cost. Only, someone forgot to add the jumbled cards, and instead, Bob flipped right to the final price. Amazingly, he was still able to stretch out the game and make it both exciting and dramatic – even though he’d already given away the ending.