Pat Sajak defends 'Wheel' contestants after 'dumbest' clip goes viral

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Pat Sajak wants viewers to show some compassion. The 75-year-old longtime host of the popular game show took to Twitter on Wednesday after a moment in Tuesday's show went viral. Three contestants on Tuesday's show — Laura, Christopher, and Thomas — all tried to solve a nearly complete puzzle, the answer to which was the popular idiom, «Another feather in your cap.» After Laura guessed, «Another feather in your hat,» all three hopefuls struggled to complete the puzzle properly, trying «map» and «lap» until Thomas finally got the right answer. The moment garnered lots of criticism and online ridicule with many calling it a «fail» and @TodayInSports calling it the «worst 2 minutes in the history of .»Worst 2 minutes in the history of Wheel of Fortune pic.twitter.com/vGUnldCzVwSajak quickly came to the contestants' defense, tweeting, «It always pains me when nice people come on our show to play a game and win some money and maybe fulfill a lifelong dream, and are then subject to online ridicule when they make a mistake or something goes awry.»Specifically calling out the «feather in your cap» puzzle, Sajak added, «Sitting at home, it seems incredible that they couldn’t solve it, but I knew in real time what was happening.»He noted that a lot of people incorrectly use the phrase, «feather in your hat» and said the contestants were «stunned» when the guess was wrong. «Now imagine you’re on national TV, and you’re suddenly thrown a curve and you begin getting worried about looking stupid, and if the feather isn’t in your hat, where the heck can it be? You start flailing away looking for alternatives rather than synonyms for 'hat,'» he explained.

Wheel Of Fortune host Pat Sajak has asked viewers to 'have a little heart' after contestants were mocked for struggling to answer an extremely common phrase on the game show.Twitter sounded off after participants failed to immediately recognize the answer - 'Another Feather In Your Cap' - with just four letters missing.But in a lengthy defense, Sajak, 75, insisted they had originally guessed a common offshoot of the expression and were thrown off learning that was incorrect. 'Cut them some slack':Wheel Of Fortune host Pat Sajak has asked viewers to 'have a little heart' after contestants were heavily mocked for struggling to answer an extremely common phrase on the game showHe also blamed the mishap on the pressure of answering questions on TV.'It always pains me when nice people come on our show to play a game and win some money and maybe fulfill a lifelong dream, and are then subject to online ridicule when they make a mistake or something goes awry,' Sajak tweeted on Wednesday.

Pat Sajak is stepping up for the contestants on Wheel of Fortune.

It could happen to anyone? Pat Sajak spoke out after Wheel of Fortune viewers criticized contestants who repeatedly failed to solve a recent puzzle.

took to Twitter on Wednesday to share a lengthy thread in which he called on viewers to “have a little heart.”“It always pains me when nice people come on our show to play a game and win some money and maybe fulfill a lifelong dream, and are then subject to online ridicule when they make a mistake or something goes awry,” Sajak stated. “Last night’s ‘Feather in your cap’ puzzle was a case in point. Sitting at home, it seems incredible that they couldn’t solve it, but I knew in real time what was happening,” the veteran host explained, claiming the contestants were “flailing” due to the pressures of being on TV.

Three Wheel of Fortune contestants last night took a staggering 10 attempts to solve a puzzle that was missing only four letters: “Another feather _n yo_r _a_.”

pic.twitter.com/XNqe3R1UAjChristopher spun the wheel and asked for the letter «D.» There was no «D.» Thomas spun next but landed on «Lose a turn,» prompting host Pat Sajak to exclaim «Laura!» before giving Laura the options to either guess the puzzle or spin the wheel. She spun the wheel and asked for the letter «P» before attempting to solve the puzzle yet again, but got it wrong with «Another feather in your map.»After Christopher bankrupted, Thomas finally got a spin and asked for the letter «C» and finally solved the puzzle.It always pains me when nice people come on our show to play a game and win some money and maybe fulfill a lifelong dream, and are then subject to online ridicule when they make a mistake or something goes awry.The two-minute moment went viral on Tuesday, with fans going off on the three contestants.

“Wheel of Fortune” contestants sparked yet another online frenzy on Tuesday.