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    ‘Wheel of Fortune’ Contestant Makes Obscene Gesture by Mistake and Tries to Cover it Up

    By linds | The Set – Wed, Nov 30, 2011 9:20 AM PST

    Poor Lorimar demonstrates "karaoke elbow."Michelle Collins of Best Week Ever admits to watching "Wheel of Fortune" every night for relaxation, which is a perfectly reasonable thing to do. (I relax with "Friends" reruns, myself.) Today, she posts a moment from earlier this week when a young woman named Lorimar illustrated her love of karaoke with a recognizable hand gesture that doesn't mean "karaoke" to most people. And then, poor thing, she blushes and has to try to pretend she didn't do it when Pat Sajak "innocently" asks her about it and mimes it himself. The best moment is probably this exchange, after Lorimar tries to sell Sajak on the idea that the move was a simulation of "karaoke elbow":

    Sajak: "You know medicine is making great advances in the solution to that problem."

    Lorimar, red-faced and clearly dying of embarrassment: "Okay, great."

    This is cringe-inducing television at its best:

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    179 comments

    • Archangel
      Archangel  •  5 months ago
      Calm down, you idiots. This is in the "TV blog" section of Yahoo. When you're here, EXPECT trivial, vapid stories. If you wanna read something serious, then you're looking in the wrong place.
    • SCHMECKIE
      SCHMECKIE  •  5 months ago
      this was just stupid......
    • the truth
      the truth  •  5 months ago
      talk about nothing. I didn't think about that once.. desperate for ratings so they release a stupid story like this
    • oakley_ca_63
      oakley_ca_63  •  5 months ago
      Without this article people may not have known, or cared, what she did
      • Fawbots
        Fawbots 5 months ago
        What matters is that Antioch and Brentwood viewers were not offended by this lewd gesture on national TV.
      • oakley_ca_63
        oakley_ca_63 5 months ago
        didn't even notice it....
      • oakley_ca_63
        oakley_ca_63 5 months ago
        Antioch and Brentwood may not have been offended but I would say Oakley probably didn't even know.
    • Dunnski
      Dunnski  •  5 months ago
      if people are offended by this they need to cut their tv off and read a book written in the 20's otherwise soder off......as if this nation needs another bizthc fit thrown over a gesture... we need complaints on higher levels....
      • Chicken Wing
        Chicken Wing 5 months ago
        I don't see anyone complaining. It's a light-hearted story about an embarrassing moment for the girl. #$%$ people take things so seriously.
    • Yolonda
      Yolonda  •  5 months ago
      THEIR just trying to make something out of nothing, people must have their minds in the gutter!
      • Tubagal
        Tubagal 5 months ago
        and you need to put your mind on grammar...
    • ringobob
      ringobob  •  5 months ago
      who cares? god, no news that day?
    • D M
      D M  •  5 months ago
      SO WHAT!
    • Amanda
      Amanda  •  5 months ago
      There's really no reason for anyone to be worked up about this... If I had been watching this episode of Wheel of Fortune, I never would have given it a second thought.
    • sharbear
      sharbear  •  5 months ago
      big deal,,,get over it people !!!!!@
    • Charles
      Charles  •  5 months ago
      Where is this "writer's" head at?
      • KelleyGaither2000
        KelleyGaither2000 5 months ago
        *snickers* You said 'head'!
      • Charles
        Charles 5 months ago
        Alright, quit it. You'll get my mind in wrong place.
    • Sue P
      Sue P  •  5 months ago
      LMAO...so what, most people wouldnt even have caught that ...oh well...its still funny as hell:-)
    • Betty Jo
      Betty Jo  •  5 months ago
      Had I have been watching I doubt I would've given it a second thought. Some people must just live for watching shows to find something to go on about. geez...
    • A Yahoo! User  •  5 months ago
      That Wheel of Fortune contestant has the same name as the production company.
    • GrindFreakMike
      GrindFreakMike  •  5 months ago
      i agree with george !!!!!!
    • james d
      james d  •  5 months ago
      BORING
    • Russell M
      Russell M  •  5 months ago
      HA LMAO
    • Leliu
      Leliu  •  5 months ago
      she got the moves like jagger, she got the moves like jagger, she got the moooooves like jaggerrrr......lol
    • All gone
      All gone  •  5 months ago
      Beef Strokenoff
    • Daozzy
      Daozzy  •  5 months ago
      You can say curse words on tv anymore but people get bent out of shape over that, come on grow up!!!!!!!!!!
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