Pat Sajak calls out ‘Wheel of Fortune’ contestant for being a ‘downer’: ‘I don’t wanna go on’
nypost.comPat Sajak sunk an aquarium owner’s morale Wednesday after he jokingly called her a “downer” when she revealed that two of her fish had killed her other aquatic pets.
The revelation came at the top of the show when contestant Mariah Feliciano told Sajak, 77, that she recently “started partaking in aquarium life.”“What do you have in there?” Sajak asked.All too thrilled to talk about her fishy friends, Feliciano told the game show host that she had “some shrimp, snails and guppies.” “And then I got two other fish I wasn’t familiar with and I named Piranha and Predator because they killed my other fish,” Feliciano continued, eliciting a slight chuckle from the audience but causing Sajak to look startled.“Really a downer,” Sajak mumbled. “I don’t wanna go on.” Feliciano insisted that the other fish were “still alive.” Sajak then interjected: “Let’s go on.” Sajak, who is leaving the show at the end of this current season, is no stranger to controversy when it comes to being blunt to competitors.
Last month, he gave one contestant a stern warning after he began to feel upstaged. “He came up to me and just told me, ‘Hey, Michael, you know, this is my show, right,'” contestant Michael Colen recalled to Fox News Digital. “And I politely said, ‘Yes, sir, it is your show for 41 years.’” “But it was stern,” Colen, 48, claimed. “There was a stern drop of sternness to it.”“It was two alphas going at it,” he went on. “I’m an acquired taste.
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