‘Wheel of Fortune’ loser: I’m ‘publicly humiliated’ for reaching my ‘lifelong dream’

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“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. “A lot of people are sitting at home on the comfort of their own couch, yelling and screaming at the TV, when WE [the contestants] are the ones in the moment and in real time, trying to guess and figure out what this puzzle is.”“The sad part is that people are saying that we [the contestants] were not intelligent and were trying to belittle our college degrees,” he continued.Coleman then had a few words for the “trolls” that came for him on social media. “What I would say to the trolls is that, ‘You go up there.

Half of you don’t even have public speaking skills. You go on ‘Wheel of Fortune’ and go into the shoes of where we were standing.’ And then it will be a whole another conversation when they are trending and making donkeys of themselves,” he stated.He explained that the moment was “an isolated incident” and wanted people to “have more empathy and a little more grace and understanding.” “Just go easy on me and the other contestants because we are very educated people and we don’t want to be put in a situation where we are being cackled and publicly humiliated on a show that was a lifelong.