Australia - 07/21/2003 (Celebrity) recap

Airdate: July 21, 2003

Australia's favourite game, Wheel of Fortune! Welcome to Stars & Cars Celebrity Week!

Today, three celebrities will play to win prizes for their own home viewer. Even better? Every night, somebody will win a brand new Renault Clio!

This game's celebrities are:
From The Great Outdoors, Shelley Craft! (As a bonus, she's done a lot with your hostess Sophie!)
From Surprise Chef, Aristos Papandroulakis!
From Ground Force, Fiona Bruyn!

Note: Home partners were required to solve a puzzle to be eligible.

The top-dollar value on the Wheel is 750, and we begin Round 1:


As it's a celebrity week, expect a few mishaps from the contestants.

Fiona solves A RITE OF PASSAGE to win her home partner $500.


The top-dollar value on the Wheel is upgraded to 1,500.


Fiona solves THE VILLAGE PEOPLE IN THE NAVY for another $1,000 to her partner.


We begin another round.

RRRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNGGGG!

Those two rounds alone took a while, so Rob will give the Wheel a spin. Consonants are worth 530. Fiona will kick things off.

Fiona: T (x4)
Shelley: S (DUD!)
Aristos: P (Lucky P!)
Fiona: R (x2)
Shelley: N
Aristos: S (DUD!)
Fiona: D
Shelley: J (DUD!)
Aristos: K (DUD!)
Fiona: H (x2)
Shelley: G (DUD!)
Aristos: C (x2)
Fiona: F (DUD!)
Shelley: I (DUD!)
Aristos: E (x4)

Aristos just barely solves TO PREACH TO THE CONVERTED for the first $1,500 for his home partner.


The top-dollar is now 2,500!

Rob will give the Wheel a spin. Consonants are worth 265. Shelley starts:

Shelley: T (x2)
Aristos: D
Fiona: S
Shelley: H
Aristos: P (DUD!)
Fiona: M (DUD!)
Shelley: E (x3)
Aristos: A
Fiona: G

Fiona solves EXCHANGE STUDENT for the last $2,000 of the main game.


Home partners of celebrity runners-up will receive a Tasco astronomical reflector telescope.

Celebrities receive a Telefunken by Prima colour TV.

(At this rate, I'd expect two Speed-Ups in each celebrity game.)





BONUS ROUND:

Fiona, your home partner could win the 1.4L Renault Clio worth $22,500!

Celebrities will get five consonants and a vowel (not that it would have mattered to Fiona) for their bonus puzzles:

Fiona quickly picks STRND, and E:

The middle word stumps her, and she does not solve A GOOD START. After time runs out, Rob rubs it in by telling her that her home partner is angry about what they just saw.

But somebody is going to win a car no matter what. A fourth home viewer has just won a new Renault Clio!

And Fiona's partner still wins $3,500 in cash!