“Come on down!”
Anybody who has watched The Worth Is Proper has heard these well-known three phrases from their tv screens, however few have heard them uttered after their identify – and a Toronto girl is certainly one of them.
To have a good time their tenth marriage ceremony anniversary, Cherry Ann and Brooks Gorst determined to make a journey out to the west coast of the US in August. They rented a automobile from Salt Lake Metropolis and travelled to Las Vegas and San Francisco earlier than making their technique to Los Angeles for a seven night time keep.
The Toronto couple have each been long-time followers of The Worth Is Proper – Brooks has been a fan since he was a baby, when the late host Bob Barker was a daily Saturday morning fixture, whereas Cherry Ann has been looking forward to the final decade.
“I’ve been watching day-after-day The Worth Is Proper. So in my thoughts, ‘Oh, I want I can go on the present and even simply (be) within the viewers,’” Cherry Ann stated. “I by no means imagined that my husband (was) planning to have a ticket with this (journey), and he informed me that. ‘Okay, we’re going there.’”
All Brooks did was seize a few out there tickets – he stated they didn’t price a penny – and so they confirmed as much as the brand new studio in Glendale, a neighbourhood in northeast Los Angeles.
Brooks, who had been within the viewers earlier than again in 2015, defined once they arrived, they needed to line up, signal some types, and sit in a ready room stuffed with screens airing previous episodes of the present.
“Then they’ll take every row into an interviewing space. And once you go in there, they’re encouraging you to love actually clap your palms and be actually excited, and fake virtually as for those who gained,” Brooks stated.
After one other hour of ready within the ready room, they stated they had been introduced all the way down to the brand new studio.
“Then George, who does the entire asserting, comes out and talks us by way of, and he principally says, ‘Look, it’s gonna get so loud in right here, once I say blah, blah, blah, come on down, you look over there to the correct,’ and there’s a man holding up your identify on a Bristol board,” Brooks stated.
Cherry Ann stated she didn’t hear her identify get referred to as when it was her time to return on all the way down to the stage.
“I’m confused as a result of I’m not targeted on it, as a result of it’s too loud contained in the viewers,” Cherry Ann defined. “Then my husband subsequent to me is saying, ‘Honey, they referred to as your identify.’”
As quickly because it sunk in it that she was chosen as a contestant, Cherry Ann stated she began leaping with everybody attempting to high-five her as she practically ran to the stage.
“Then I come again, I give a kiss to my husband. I by no means anticipated this,” she stated.
Whereas Cherry Ann didn’t win the prize throughout the One Incorrect Worth recreation she participated in, the place contestants need to appropriately establish an incorrectly priced prize, she was a lot luckier when it got here to spinning the wheel.
Although the wheel isn’t actually heavy, Cherry Ann stated, she wished to not spin it too laborious so it wouldn’t whirl round shortly.
“She received in with simply 70 cents, which is troublesome, proper? If you realize The Worth Is Proper, there’s a very good likelihood somebody’s going to spin over you,” Brooks stated.
Now, all there was left was the Showcase Showdown. The Gorsts stated they befriended Cherry Ann’s competitors: Lily Dang, who they stated actually wished to win a brand new automobile.
“I stated to her, ‘You bought this,’” Cherry Ann recalled.
When it got here time to play, Cherry Ann’s opponent handed on the primary showcase to her – which included a ship, a visit for 2 to Palm Springs and designer garments. Dang ended up bidding on a prize that included a model new automobile.
Dang overbid on her prize, making Cherry Ann the winner of a showcase prize totalling US$28,000, in line with the Gorsts.
“I gave Lily a giant hug on the time,” Cherry Ann stated. “I stated, ‘You probably did a fantastic job.’ I stated, ‘You already know, you’re a fantastic particular person.’”
Then, Cherry Ann ran towards her husband and jumped up and down collectively.
“I really couldn’t consider it when she gained,” Brooks stated. “I nonetheless couldn’t consider it as a result of, you realize, we had no plan … only for a day’s leisure to return, take pleasure in a present as Canadians, didn’t need to pay for the present, no parking, simply be on the TV is great. After which to have her win this, I used to be simply on cloud 9, questioning how we’re going to get the boat dwelling.”
Brooks stated they really couldn’t deliver the boat dwelling, and opted for a money deal as an alternative. As for the remainder of the winnings, they’ve to select it up from the closest port of entry in Buffalo – which they’ll do now that the episode aired.
Whereas they taped the episode again in August, simply days earlier than Barker handed away on Aug. 26, the Gorsts stated they needed to hold their main win a secret from everybody till after the episode aired Friday.
“Throughout lunchtime, my cellphone is like busy, ding, ding, ding, on my Fb as a result of my associates (are) sending messages to me,” Cherry Ann stated. “One in all my associates (stated), ‘Hey, I simply recorded it. Can I’ve an autograph?’”
As for all the expertise, the couple stated they really feel very blessed.
“We didn’t go in there anticipating something. So the truth that we walked out [as winners], that’s fairly a pleasant shock,” Brooks stated.
CTV Information Toronto reached out to The Worth Is Proper for remark however didn’t obtain a response.
