'WHEEL OF FORTUNE' HOST PAT SAJAK OFFERS POWERFUL DEFENSE OF CONTESTANTS WHO WERE MERCILESSLY MOCKED FOR MISSING EASY PHRASE
"Mocking them online and calling them names? These are good people in a bad situation under a kind of stress that you can't begin to appreciate from the comfort of your couch ... cut them some slack. Unless you're there, you have no idea how different it is in the studio." -Host Pat Sajak
As the New York Post noted, three contestants took eight turns and 10 total attempts to finally solve the missing letters in the following riddle: "Another feather _n yo_r _a_" (the answer was "Another feather in your cap").
Social media lit up with people incessantly teasing the contestants. But Sajak took to Twitter to come to their defense, reminding them things aren't always what they seem.
"It always pains me when nice people come on our show to play a game and win some money and maybe fulfill a lifelong dream and are then subject to online ridicule when they make a mistake or something goes awry," he wrote.
Sajak was emphatic to stress that the difficulty faced by the contestants is impossible to perceive from the comfort of home.
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