For some people, even when luck goes their way, it doesn’t really.
When recording an episode of The Price is Right on Friday, Larry Emdur told one of his contestants to “come on down.”
Emdur didn’t say “come on down, bang your noggin on the showcase wheel, bleed all over my set and then take an ambulance home.”
But that’s what happened.
Contestant Dean from Melbourne thought life couldn’t get any better after being plucked from the audience, picking up $2500 and making it to the heady heights of spinning the $100,000 super showcase wheel.
That was until the handle of the wheel swung back and knocked Dean fair and square on the mush.
“Larry said to give the wheel a big spin and as I did the handle cracked me on the head,” Dean recalled to Brisbane’s 4BC radio yesterday.
“The wheel was heavy. It had concrete in it, I reckon.”
Dean pressed on with the game until Emdur noticed there was blood running down his face.
“I was seeing stars for a while,” he said.
“They took me out the back and tried to control the bleeding until the ambulance came.
“My wife finished playing for me.”
Poor Dean’s nasty head gash required five stitches.
The episode, to air this Friday, was re-recorded from the point of the incident with his wife Lynette in his place. Emdur simply tells viewers there had been “an accident”.
