For Bernice Valentine-Watts, it was the words she longed to hear.
“I saw my name up there and ‘Bernice Valentine-Watts come on down,’” she said.
That phrase meant that the Fishers resident had been selected to be on “The Price is Right.”
“I screamed. I was high-fiving everyone,” Valentine-Watts said. “I got on stage, and I’m actually talking to Drew (Carey), the host of ‘The Price is Right.’ It was a very surreal experience.”
Valentine-Watts’ episode was filmed in late July and will be aired Oct. 19. She has watched the show for years.
“I’d see when I was doing my housework or holidays I would tune in back in the days when (host) Bob Barker was there,” she said. “It was just exciting to be there. I couldn’t believe I was there.”
Valentine-Watts was on the vacation with her husband, with two of her sisters, two of her brothers, a sister’s husband and a brother’s fiancée.
“We had planned a family vacation to California and had the hopes of getting on the ‘The Price is Right,’” Valentine-Watts said. “We were able to get tickets to get in there. All the family members there were trying to get on to the show.”
Valentine-Watts won her first pricing game she played, Side by Side.
“I made the right choice, and I won three Samsung televisions and some Xbox games, which my husband is very excited about it,” she said. “One of the televisions is 78 inches, and the other two are 65 inches.”
She then got a chance to spin the wheel and say hello.
“I just shouted out to all my siblings who weren’t with me because I have nine,” Valentine-Watts said. “I shouted out to people where I grew up in home state of South Carolina.”
