Seacrest, out!
“Wheel of Fortune” host Ryan Seacrest was thrown to the bottom when an overzealous contestant received the favored sport present’s $40,000 grand prize on Tuesday.
Pittsburgh native Daniel Thomas wanted to unravel a one-word, seven-letter puzzle within the “Living Things” class within the present’s daunting bonus spherical.
Seacrest gave the anxious-looking contestant the letters “R, S, T, L, N, E” to start out with the “S” and the “E” showing on the board.
Thomas then selected “H, G, D, O,” however the one letter to seem was a “G.”
With solely 10 seconds to unravel the puzzle, Thomas blurted out, “Guppies” simply earlier than time expired.
“Yes!” Seacrest informed him. “You did it!”
The elated contestant couldn’t management the enjoyment of fixing the puzzle and went in to embrace Seacrest with a hug however as a substitute knocked him to the bottom.
“Oh my gosh!” Thomas yelled as he went to assist the host up.
“I’m good, I’m good,” Seacrest mentioned with a smile.
The previous “American Idol” host jumped again to his ft and instantly revealed that Thomas received $40,000.
“Daniel, easy on our host, but celebrate with $40,000,” present announcer Jim Thornton informed Thomas as he embraced his household.
Seacrest revealed to Thomas that he was leaving the present with a complete of $71,950 and slid over to the excited contestant to hug him — this time staying on his ft.
“How did you do that in the last second,” Seacrest requested.
“Push you over or solve the puzzle,” Thomas joked.
Thomas shared that when he “saw the letter P, the word just popped” into his head.
The clip, posted on the sport present’s YouTube web page, garnered some fascinating reactions from followers — who all largely appeared excited for Thomas and obtained a kick out of him knocking the host down.
“That was an amazing solve & the funniest thing I’ve seen all day after the solve,” one consumer commented.
“That tackle is worth a lot of money!” one other chimed in.
“Whoa! I can’t believe Daniel won the bonus round, but he also knocked Ryan down! Ooh, I hope he’s all right,” wrote one other.
Seacrest started internet hosting “Wheel of Fortune” alongside co-host Vanna White on Sept. 9 after Pat Sajak, the present’s longtime host, introduced he would go away in June 2023.
“I love giving away the money,” he informed Fox Information in December. “I get so excited when people win the money, and they win a lot of money. I’m hoping to give away a million dollars in 2025.”
