GREENFIELD — A 10-year Greenfield resident and nurse at Riley Hospital for Children will compete Friday on CBS’s “Let’s Make a Deal” game show.
Miriam Davis traveled to Los Angeles in July to attend a meeting for cystic fibrosis research, part of her job as a research nurse at Riley Hospital. Davis, part of an outgoing family with eight brothers and sisters all together, had tried out for “Deal or No Deal” a few years ago and decided to see what kind of game shows she could get tickets to while she was in the area.
Game shows are something of a tradition in her family.
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“My mom was on Art Linkletter’s ‘House Party,’ and my older sister was on ‘Wheel of Fortune’ 10 years ago,” she said. “We are a pretty outgoing family. You have to have a big personality and engage a crowd in a way, and that’s kind of in our nature.”
The latest version of “Let’s Make a Deal” premiered in 2009 on CBS and is in its 10th season. The show will air on the Indianapolis CBS affiliate, WTTV (Channel 4) starting at 10 a.m. Friday, according to cbs4indy.com.
Davis moved to North Carolina last month, but had lived in the Greenfield area for 10 years before that, she said.
Davis looked around and found free tickets to a taping of the show, in which audience members dress up in outlandish costumes to get host Wayne Brady’s attention in an attempt to make deals for trips, prizes, cars or cash. She decided to go watch a taping. When she arrived at the address she’d been given, she was a little nervous: It was a large, industrial-looking building that didn’t seem like a recording studio at all, she said.
As soon as she entered the building, she had to sign forms and meet with production assistants, who asked her and the other people attending to share how and why they came to see the show, she said.
Some people came in their own costumes, a part of the show, but there was a place where people could rent costumes as well. Davis thought about choosing a nurse costume, since she is a nurse, but at the last second decided to rent a goddess costume instead.
After that, she had to surrender her phone, and then she and other potential contestants took a bus to the actual studio, she said.
“It was surreal as soon as I walked into the studio,” she said. “It’s a lot of energy, a lot of excitement; it’s a long day.”
One of the most exciting parts of the day was getting her name tag, she said.
She wasn’t able to share many details about the experience with friends and family, only telling them they would have to watch, she said.
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Miriam Davis, who lived in Greenfield for 10 years before moving to North Carolina last month, will appear on the CBS game show "Let’s Make a Deal" at 10 a.m. Friday on WTTV (Channel 4).
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