Posted: Friday, April 13, 2012 10:00 am | Updated: 1:23 pm, Thu Apr 12, 2012.
By now many have heard the rumor mill rumbling about Astorian CARRIE THORESON (pictured) appearing on the game show WHEEL OF FORTUNE. Yes, it’s true.
Carrie first auditioned when the Wheelmobile was at Chinook Winds Casino in Lincoln City, then aced her second audition, and was finally selected to be a contestant when the show was going to be taped in Portland.
In late March/early April, four weeks of shows were taped in four days at the Oregon Convention Center. Co-hosts PAT SAJAK and VANNA WHITE were on hand to keep things rolling, and the entire Los Angeles-area based crew was there, too – a long way from the show’s home at a Sony Pictures Entertainment studio in Culver City.
Do you have any idea what it takes to tape a show away from its original location? LESLIE JACOBE of Wheel of Fortune Publicity and Promotions filled the Ear in with the details of what they had to bring to Portland.
Just a few of the items they lugged were: 14 tractor trailer rigs for set, lighting and rigging; approximately 1 million pounds of equipment; a 65-foot mobile production truck; 12 miles of power cables; 20 miles of other types of cabling; and 140 color monitors.
By the way, did you know that more than 10,000 people try out each year for Wheel of Fortune, and fewer than 600 are selected? And you can only be on the show once.
So get ready: Carrie’s once-in-a-lifetime appearance will air on ABC at 7 p.m. THURSDAY, MAY 10.
— Elleda Wilson
Reprinted with the permission of The Daily Astorian in Astoria, Oregon
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