A birthday gift for her mother, turned into a payday for Delta College nursing student Analiese Delgado, who won prizes including a designer luggage set, a trip to Memphis, Tennessee and Rarotonga, an island in the Cook Island, on an episode of “Price is Right” that aired on Feb. 7.
“I watch this show all the time with my family and so we always talked about getting on the show, but I was too young and my family wanted to do it all together,” said Delgado.
So when Delgado turned 18 in September – and as a 50th birthday present for her mother – her family bought the tickets for the “Price is Right.”.
Although her mother didn’t want to be called up, Delgado, her father and two brothers were all trying to be put on the show.
“I looked up different articles and everything on how to get called up and one thing I found out was that people said ‘don’t be super crazy but also don’t be boring,’” said Delgado.
So Delgado decided to just be herself and talk to the producers the same way she would talk to anyone.
She said that she found out that if during the interviews if the cameraman stayed on you, then you had a good chance of being picked, so she did what she could to keep his attention, such as bantering with him and going back and forth.
“I was so shocked when I was one of the first four constants, and it was so loud in there that I didn’t hear anything but I saw my name on the cue card and that’s how I knew,” said Delgado..
After getting beat out five different times, Delgado didn’t think that there was any chance of her making it onto the stage.
Delgado won $26,000 worth of prizes but said, “it wasn’t really about the prizes, they’re cool but the experience was nothing like I’ve ever experienced before.”
