MovieChat Forums > Deal or No Deal (2005) Discussion > Contestant Update - Remember the pig far...

Contestant Update - Remember the pig farmer with one penny...


...and the piggy bank the Banker broke?

Turns out that was fixed. A fake piggy bank was broken.

She got her piggy bank back following the episode. The footage of that was reportedly shown on the official website, though supposedly only US viewers can see that.

Contestant Heather McKee, a pig farmer from Oklahoma, is all about pigs. She brought along her personal piggy bank with the anticipation of filling it with a million dollars. When the Banker asked to see her piggy bank, he cruelly smashed it to pieces. Feeling down about what just happened, the show wanted to cheer Heather up and make her feel as if she was back on the farm. So they empty out the audience sitting in one of the pit areas, and transformed it into a pig stable. In keeping with the theme, the models had their hair in pigtails. And as a joke, Howie also had some fake pigtails that he put on for a second before giving them to one of Heather’s supporters. After her game, and on the official Deal or No Deal website, Heather’s piggy bank, which was thought to be broken by the Banker, was not broken after all, and was returned to Heather at the very end.

Source: Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deal_or_No_Deal_(U.S._game_show)





Please let me know if there's some other way we can screw up tonight.
William Shatner, Star Trek 6

reply