Kristen Shaw Wheel Of Fortune
When an all-expenses-paid trip to Music City USA was denied Wheel of Fortune contender Kristen Shaw, Nashville-based adventure company Adventureworks and hospitality leaders came together, determined to have the contestant in Music City.
A slip of the tongue cost a contestant on Wheel of Fortune a small fortune. On Thursday night’s show, contestant Kristen Shaw solved a crossword puzzle challenge. But because she inserted the word “and” in her answer, she violated the rules of the game. Her answer was “Right, football, left and Sally.”. A slip of the tongue cost a contestant on Wheel of Fortune a small fortune. On Thursday night’s show, contestant Kristen Shaw solved a crossword puzzle challenge. But because she inserted the.
Early Friday morning, while Twitter and national media outlets argued over the rules governing one of America’s most beloved prime-time game shows, Adventureworks’ L.J. Whalen wondered how a city known for its community and Southern hospitality couldn’t let Ms. Shaw visit the country music capital of the world.
Kristen Shaw lost out on close to $10,000 in prizes on Thursday night’s show after a technical rule violation. During the “crossword puzzle” challenge on the show, Ms. Shaw answered the puzzle in the form of a sentence, adding the conjunction “and” between her final two words, prompting longtime host Pat Sajak to deny her the win. The prize package at stake included a trip to Nashville, TN. After hearing about the upset and seeing the outpouring of support to amend the show’s long-standing rules, Mr. Whalen knew that it was the “Nashville thing to do” to bring Ms. Shaw to the music-making capital for a visit.
Mr. Whalen, one of the directors of Nashville-based adventure company Adventureworks, described the city’s support for Ms. Shaw in a video posted Saturday afternoon on the company’s YouTube page.
“Nashville has long been a city dedicated to making dreams come true,” Whalen says in the video, reaching out directly to Ms. Shaw. “We were built on the idea that—even when the odds are stacked against you—anyone can make it here. Nashville likes to ‘bend the rules’ sometimes too. Adventureworks has been serving Nashville as a leader in offering new and exciting experiences, stepping out of your comfort zone, and taking big risks—much like Ms. Shaw and her appearance on the Emmy-award winning program. We thought that if Nashville can make dreams come true for stars like Dolly Parton and Taylor Swift, we should be able to help her too.”
In short order, Whalen and Adventureworks did what they do best: assembled a team of local businesses that came up with a tour package to rival the $8,000 loss. “With the help of a lot of our friends around town, we’re proud to have Ms. Shaw come to Nashville and see all that the Southern capital has to offer. We’ve gotten her tickets to every attraction in town AND museums AND honky-tonks AND 4-star hotel accommodations AND even prime seats to the Grand Ole Opry—backstage passes and all,” Whalen said, clearly poking fun at the use of the conjunction. All of Ms. Shaw’s “to-do’s” can be found below.
“Our hospitality community is genuinely close-knit,” Whalen when on to explain. “We’d love to show Ms. Shaw and the nation that we’re a lot more than boot-stomping and beer drinking. We’re a city rich in love and unbounded hopefulness to see people’s dreams come true.” Adventureworks committed to fly Ms. Shaw and a guest out to the city, put them up in one of the most talked-about hotels, and gain them admission to every award-winning attraction and restaurant in town.
“AND we won’t even make her solve a puzzle to claim it,” Whalen slyly concludes.
Kristen Shaw Wheel Of Fortune Contestant
Kristen Shaw is being gifted with a trip after a technicality cost her the win.
When the 26-year-old Wheel of Fortune contestant made a guess on a nearly solved board during an episode back in October, she made a critical error costing her a free trip to Nashville, Tenn.
'Right, football, left and Sally,' she said as the buzzer indicated that she was wrong. Her response was considered incorrect because she said 'and' while listing off the four correct words, and the mistake cost her $1,950 and a trip to Nashville. (In the game, you can only say exactly the words while answering.)
“It was probably one of the most embarrassing experiences of my life. And I knew that in about a month, almost everyone in America would see it,' she revealed of the episode which went on to go viral.
However, she received a message of support from L.J. Whalen, one of the directors of Adventureworks, a Nashville-based tourism company, who presented her with the gift of plane tickets, hotel accommodations and tickets to the Grand Ole Opry.
“Our hospitality community is so close-knit, and we’d love to show Ms. Shaw and the nation that we’re a lot more than boot stomping and beer drinking. This is what we do here in Nashville. We give second chances, AND we are not going to make you solve a puzzle to claim it,' they said in a statement.
Wheel Of Fortune Kristen Shaw
'I was honestly so shocked I was almost speechless. There is a lot of negativity in this world, but this shows me we are all human, we make mistakes, and for someone to want to give me a second chance, it just blew me away,' Kristen said.