Sheboygan, WI (WHBL) – The trip was about a year in the making, but was well worth the 20 years of marriage that it took Sheboygan District 5 Alderman Billy Thiel and his wife Brenda to come up with the idea to visit “The Price is Right” game show.
The Thiels booked a trip to Hawaii to celebrate their 10 year anniversary and decided a decade later to again either go big, or stay home. They opted to go big, and sent off for tickets to a taping of The Price is Right.
“We were going out to California for our 20th anniversary to meet some of our relatives out there, and I was sitting there one morning on my day off watching TV - watching the Price is Right. They said go online and look for tickets. So I was like, hey we’re going to be out there, let’s give it a check. So I went on there, put my name in there, and got two tickets for the day that happened to be the day of our anniversary, so it worked out well,” Thiel says.
The hit CBS daytime television show has been airing in living rooms across the country since the Fall of 1972. Since then, millions of fans have dreamt of hearing hosts of the show yell to them “Come On Down! You’re the next contestant on the Price is Right!”
The Thiels were hoping to be among the guests chosen to play PLINKO, the Shell game, 3 Strikes, win a vacation, or a “NEW CA-A-R-R-R!”
Sadly, the couple did not make it onstage, but were treated to front row seats for their anniversary, which allowed them to be smack dab in the center of all of the show activity.
“Once we got into the studio itself, it was just so neat to see how everything comes together that you see on TV.”
The Thiels are visible at least three times throughout the recent episode, which aired in late October.
Theil says though the event was quite thrilling, he is not about to quit his day job for Hollywood.