The ‘Price is Right’ model who gave away a $21,960 car for free because of dumb mistake has said it’s the ‘biggest mistake ever in game show history’ and the first of her six-year career.
Colombian-born Manuela Arbelaez’s mind was clearly somewhere else when she removed the wrong price tag during Thursday’s show – giving contestant Andrea the prize even though she guessed the wrong price.
The model and host Drew Carey both gasped after she revealed the true price of the Hyundai Sonata SE before Andrea had finished guessing.
Speaking to the New York Daily News, she described how after the blunder she broke down in tears and ‘wanted to go in a wormhole and disappear.’
She added: ‘I knew there was no way to fix it. I went to this dark place, and I thought I’d get fired or it would be taken out of my paycheck.’
Producers, however, decided not to punish her and said there was nothing to worry about during the commercial break.
She added that host Carey was ‘understanding and supportive’ and told her he thought it was the ‘funniest thing ever.’
”I’m not in trouble phew!’ she wrote on Twitter yesterday.
She noted that there have been many model mishaps over the show’s 43 seasons.
‘There was an occasion when a girl crashed a car into Door 3 and another gave away a trip to Disneyland,’ Arbelaez recalled. ‘There have been small things like that over the years, but I think my mistake was the most expensive in the history of the show.’
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