Viewers Choose First “Price Is Right” Male Model Winner
After a series of webisodes and a week of voting between three finalists, users of PriceIsRight.com have chosen who they would like to see win The Price Is Right‘s first Male Model Search. The winner, who defeated other finalists Clint Brink and Nick Denbeigh, is Rob Wilson. Rob currently lives in Los Angeles but is originally from Boston, Massachusetts. As the winner of the contest, he has earned the chance to model just like the rest of the ladies for an entire week of programs. He will record his episodes this Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday and the week will begin airing the following Monday, October 15th. And who knows? Permanent roles have come for models from these model searches, so he or another finalist could end up being a fixture on the show after this. Congratulations to Rob and congratulations to those looking forward to seeing Price‘s first non-soap-star man modeling prizes.
We’ll be seein a lot of Rob while Gwendolyn and Rachel(early stages) be out on maternity leave so that way Amber and Maneula don’t have to be the only female models working a lot.
The webisodes were very fun to watch. Mike Richards and the four models were the judges who narrowed it down to the final three. Rob was clearly the most comfortable and had the best sense of interacting with the prizes and the camera. He clearly deserves to be the winner. It will be fun to see him on the actual show.
I was really pulling for Clint, but you’re absolutely right Alohadave. Rob deserved to win and clearly was the most comfortable on camera. I think he’d be a welcome permanent addition.
I did not want Clint to win. He was too tan and looked like he could have been Barbie’s boyfriend in a previous life. I am so glad that Rob won. He was my favourite pretty much the entire way through. Rob has more of that boy-next-door charm to him much like the current Price models.
A little off-topic, but still TPiR related, a write-up from the Price is Right Live show that was in Sioux City, IA last night from Journal writer Bruce Miller
Sunday night, it was amazing to see the way “The Price is Right” cuts across all generations.
At the “Price is Right Live” show at the Orpheum Theatre, there were folks of all ages — great grandmas sitting next to college frat boys — enjoying those games we’ve seen for years.
Apparently, a good chunk of folks started showing up after 4 p.m. to be able to register to get on stage. That meant a lot of “getting excited” time before the show started at 7:30.
The bar was open, too, and I came to the conclusion an open bar could make any show a little better. (Imagine what might happen if the symphony started serving shots at 4 p.m. and encouraging patrons to wear T-shirts with their favorite composers on them!)
By the time ticketholders got into the theater there was a buzz I haven’t seen at ANY show in Sioux City (and this includes some KISS concerts from the 1980s). The crowd was pumped.
Even better? Folks came in matching T-shirts that mentioned just about every game played on “Price” over 40 years. Plinko was a big fave and when host Todd Newton brought out the Plinko board, you could have sworn a rock star had entered the building.
The interest level was so high, Freemantle (the company behind the live show) should consider putting a game or two in the lobby so folks can pose for pictures, try their hand at them and feel the thrill. Letting others spin the big wheel? That, too, could have stoked a few more fires.
Although the prizes weren’t much (frankly, none of them had that “ahhhh” factor) and the “big” winners were few and far between, the idea that folks were interested in every aspect of the hit-and-miss stage production was a testament to the game show’s drawing power.
If Drew Carey and company knew what was good for them, they’d bring the real deal on the road and discover just how excitable fans are.
In California, audiences never get as pumped as the one in Sioux City was.
But maybe that was just the beer talking.
Sunday, they were more than ready to come on down.