‘Wheel of Fortune’ contestant told to hide after ’embarrassing’ flop

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Another Wheel of Fortune contestant found themselves a trending item on Twitter this week after she whiffed on a seemingly easy answer.

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Florida’s Angie Gautney told host Pat Sajak that the game show was a life-long obsession with her family and shared an anecdote that her father would watch broadcasts of the long-running program earlier in the day on satellite TV to make the rest of his clan think he knew all the answers.

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But Gautney went from having a light-hearted laugh with Sajak to becoming the butt of jokes on social media when it came time for her to solve a puzzle in the “Food & Drink” category.

Gautney was trying to finish the phrase, with the answer being, “WARM TOASTED BAGELS WITH LOX AND CREAM CHEESE.”

With the puzzle almost solved, Gautney guessed “Warm toasted bagels with low and cream cheese?”

“No,” Sajak quickly responded, letting contestant Nina Lance solve the puzzle with the correct answer, “Warm toasted bagels with lox and cream cheese.”

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“That’s a much better recipe,” Sajak jokingly replied.

On Twitter, Gautney’s response was met with derision.

“Someone saw this puzzle and said ‘Warm Toasted Bagels with Low and Cream Cheese,’” one person tweeted with someone else replying, “It literally killed me.”

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Another viewer told Gautney she should hide her face.

“Someone just guessed warm toasted bagels with LOW and cream cheese instead of lox that is so embarrassing I would never show my face again.”

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“The absolute verbal abuse my mom and I screamed at this lady on Wheel of Fortune who didn’t know what lox was,” wrote another critic, adding, “SHE GUESSED ‘LOW AND BAGELS.’ WHAT THE HELL IS ‘LOW’.”

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Several viewers joked that the fail likely had many Wheel watchers Googling to find out what lox was.

“Learned what lox is today!” one person admitted.

Gautney’s flop comes after 10th grader Khushi was trying to finish a phrase in the “Food & Drink” category, with the answer being “FRESH TROPICAL FRUIT” during last month’s Teen Week.

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With the puzzle almost solved, Khushi just needed the “S” and “H” to complete the answer. After guessing “H”, the teen was stumped with the final missing letter.

“Solve it or spin it or… but do something quickly,” Sajak urged as the clock ran down, which led Khushi to take another spin.

Clearly stumped and confused, when it came time for Khushi to give her answer she said, “I’ll go with a … ‘G’,” which would have spelt “FREGH.”

“What?” someone in the audience could be heard yelling in response after the buzzer squawked.

“You know when that happens and you’re sitting at home, you’re saying, ‘How in the world can that (not be solved)?’” Sajak said as he tried to defend Khushi. “But, you know, sometimes it’s a word that just doesn’t want to come into focus for you.”

But on social media, Khushi’s fumble had followers scratching their heads.

“I don’t think I’ve ever heard a single audience member audibly have such a violent reaction on Wheel of Fortune, as this lady did when a poor contestant called a G in ‘Fresh,’” one person wrote on Twitter.

“This may have been the biggest choke in all of Wheel of Fortune history,” another observed.

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