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The Price is Right guest models

tmanokc

tmanokc

At the start of the current season of "The Price is Right", the series broke from tradition in regards to the models that help present the prizes and some products on the show. Last season had five models: Rachel Reynolds, Amber Lancaster, Manuela Arbelaez, Gwendolyn Osborne (who BTW, is the wife of ex-NBA player turned TNT NBA analyst Kenny Smith) and Rob Wilson (the first male model in the show's history).

This season, only Reynolds returned and the show has been using only one other model - well really, a rotating array of guest models (primarily from other CBS Daytime shows, such as "The Young and the Restless"'s Joshua Morrow and Melissa Ordway, "The Bold and the Beautiful"'s Karla Moseley and Lawrence Saint-Victor, etc.) alongside Reynolds. This isn't meant as a thread to say "oh, the show hasn't been the same since Drew Carey became host", but rather just to ask what happened to the other three female models (Rob Wilson's absence is explainable since he landed a contract role on the now rumored-to-be-discontinued online reboot of All My Children)? Have they been released from the show? Is the guest model thing just a ratings stunt? Are they doing it until they find new models to join Reynolds? Also, what are people's reaction to the guest model thing?
 
All of the show's other regulars have been back to Studio 33 in the last few weeks. In fact, Mannie was back in the house just today. They should be turning up on the air in the next few weeks.

As to the reason why they've been kept off? Some dunce at TVC thought it would be a good idea to have a bunch of "amateurs" come in for cross-promotional reasons. That person should be ashamed. Reaction has been fairly negative among the hardcore audience. The ratings have been rising without this lingering stunt as it was.
 
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Joe_Capitano said:
All of the show's other regulars have been back to Studio 33 in the last few weeks. In fact, Mannie was back in the house just today. They should be turning up on the air in the next few weeks.

As to the reason why they've been kept off? Some dunce at TVC thought it would be a good idea to have a bunch of "amateurs" come in for cross-promotional reasons. That person should be ashamed. Reaction has been fairly negative among the hardcore audience. The ratings have been rising without this lingering stunt as it was.
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I'm aware that most of the guest models appearing are from other CBS shows (Danielle Demski, who has appeared last week and a few times at the very start of the season, was the only one I didn't recognize - other than having appeared in place of Tiffany Coyne on "Let's Make a Deal" a couple weeks back), but whomever the idea came from (whether it was someone at the network or Fremantle Media or exec pros Evelyn Warfel or Mike Richards) should have known that the fans might not take kindly to a shakeup (whether temporary as it seems or not) with this aspect of the show. If anything, there isn't really anyone less important among the show's cast, the models are equally as important as the host and to some extent, the announcer.

"The Price is Right", I guess, has a more diverse audience than other daytime shows (the models are just one part of what pulls in the male viewers). The show did this kind of guest model thing (in a scaled down form, introducing one or two prizes and presenting the Showcase prize(s)) in the recent past but kept all of the regular models, it might have worked if it was done that way without benching anybody (at least those in the model lineup for that episode) and restricted it to sweeps (which this seems like an idea where it would have been more suited, rather than stretching it out to a sizeable part of the season).
 
+2. Believe the girl after Holly was Kathleen, after that it was a blur of girls rotating in.
 
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