NEED TO KNOW
- Wheel of Fortune celebrated its newest milestone in the course of the Tuesday, Sept. 30 episode
- Contestant Christina Derevjanik earned a money prize $1,035,155
- After profitable, she advised the manufacturing that she “was attempting to manifest this”
A Wheel of Fortune winner has taken dwelling the largest prize within the present’s historical past.
On the Tuesday, Sept. 30 episode of the forty third season, Christina Derevjanik from Stamford, Conn. gained a money prize of $1,035,155.
Derevjanik is the fourth Wheel of Fortune contestant who has earned the million-dollar grand prize — and the primary since Ryan Seacrest grew to become host.
The Connecticut girl scored the prize after profitable journeys to Montana and Tokyo and accumulating $35,155 in money and prizes. She then made it to the bonus spherical and chosen the “Dwelling Issues” class.
She efficiently solved the puzzle that learn: “PACK OF COYOTES.”
Seacrest, 50, opened the prize envelope and shared that Derevjanik gained the million-dollar prize. Vanna White headed over to Derevjanik after her win was revealed and exclaimed, “I’m so completely happy for you!”
Seacrest additionally remarked on the record-breaking victory, saying, “Congratulations, you’re my first million-dollar winner. I’ve a tear in my eye.”
After the episode, Seacrest advised Derevjanik that she was now the largest winner within the present’s historical past. Derevjanik confessed that she was actually desirous to win, telling the manufacturing, “I used to be attempting to manifest this. I hoped for confetti, however I by no means thought it might truly occur.”
The present’s one-million-dollar grand prize wedge was added for the twenty sixth season in 2008. To win, the contestant should land on the wedge, remedy the puzzle and make it to the Bonus Spherical with out going bankrupt.
Over the course of Wheel of Fortune‘s historical past, solely 4 gamers, together with Derevjanik, have been capable of win the $1 million prize.
The primary got here the identical 12 months the wedge was launched, with Michelle Loewenstein profitable in 2008, then Autumn Erhard in 2013 and Sarah Manchester the next 12 months. Sabrina the Teenage Witch alum Melissa Joan Hart was the primary million-dollar winner on Movie star Wheel of Fortune in 2021.
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