'Wheel of Fortune' Fans Left Shocked After Contestants Fail to Solve Common Phrase

Wilson Chapman editorUnited Talent Agency has hired WME alum Matthew Baskharoon as an agent in its unscripted television department, the agency announced Wednesday.“UTA has established themselves as a company willing to disrupt and go against the grain,” Baskharoon said in a statement. “Their culture promotes innovation and entrepreneurship and I look forward to leveraging everything the company has to offer to service my diverse roster of clients.”Prior to joining UTA, Baskharoon worked in the non-scripted television and documentary department of media agency WME for over a decade.

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In hot water. Wheel of Fortune fans came to a player’s defense after host Pat Sajak mocked his introduction story during a recent episode of the show.

#WheelOfFortune #patsajak pic.twitter.com/0wkEL2aRanTwitter immediately scolded Pat and demanded he apologize (he was also called many words not fit for print.)"Poor Scott just wanted to tell his story. Pat just throwing the shade," one fan tweeted.

social media watchdogs immediately sunk their teeth into him over his “a-hole” attitude. It all started when the beloved — but suddenly divisive — game show guru glanced down at his handy note card, noted Ingwersen’s survival story and couldn’t help but ask the contestant about it.

“Wheel of Fortune” viewers weren’t impressed with Pat Sajak during Wednesday’s episode.

On tonight’s episode of SNL, Weekend Update‘s anchors tackled topics ranging from criticisms of HBO’s Euphoria and Wheel of Fortune contestants, to Florida’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill and more.

“Wheel of Fortune” episode where he and fellow players, Thomas Lipscomb and Laura Machado, caused a ruckus when none guessed the correct answer to the puzzle: “Another feather in your cap.”Coleman spoke out on Thursday about feeling ridiculed, telling TMZ about the widespread animosity he felt following the episode’s airing.“This idiom [‘Another feather in your cap,’] is something I learned when I was six or seven years old. But I haven’t heard it in over 30 years and so it has been a while for me,” he began.“You are also under a lot of scrutiny and pressure when you’re in production,” Coleman said of being on the “Fortune” set.

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.

pic.twitter.com/8vlSIfHcWEThe correct answer was "Another Feather In Your Cap." However, guesses included "Another Feather In Your Hat," "Another Feather In Your Lap" and "Another Feather In Your Map." Twitter was dumbfounded at the missed answers. But, the "Wheel of Fortune" host sees it differently and urged 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," he began a lengthy Twitter string. "Last night's 'Feather in your cap' puzzle was a case in point.

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_.”

long series of controversial on air moments, Tuesday night’s “Wheel of Fortune” episode has social media watchdogs barking about the show’s “dumbest moment ever.”The frustrating episode featured three contestants taking a whopping eight turns and 10 attempts to solve the puzzle: “Another feather _n yo_r _a_” While the correct answer was simply “Another feather in your cap,” the players took several tries to get there — and it left viewers very frustrated.Possibly bad game player Laura Machado had three guesses to win as host Pat Sajak and legendary letter-tuner Vanna White looked on. However, Machado’s maddening wrong answers included: “Another feather in your hat,” “Another feather in your lap” and “Another feather in your map.”Meanwhile, fellow contestant Christopher Coleman didn’t guess any of the correct letters and landed on Bankrupt when he twirled TV’s most infamous wheel.Thomas Lipscomb also scored a Bankrupt and Lose a Turn for his first two times in the hot seat.

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