It’s been days since the controversy of the “Million Dollar Money Drop” hit the news. Two contestants bet eight hundred thousand dollars ($800,000) to one question and eighty thousand dollars on another ($80,000) question.
The couple faced a question about items being sold first. The items were a Macintosh computer, Post it notes and finally a Sony Walkman. The couple bet their $800,000 on the question and answered Post it notes. They lost the money when the host said the answer was incorrect.
Minutes later, the video of the couple was posted online and went viral. That is after some people reported that the correct answer was indeed post its. A lot of people rallied to the side of the couple.
The host of Money Drop, Kevin Pollak, spoke recently and said that even if the couple won the question they would have lost the game anyway. He expressed that the story of the couple that went viral on the internet is a moot point as the couple lost everything on the next question. Apparently the video only showed the couple answering the Post it question and not the final question that made the couple lose.
Pollak however says that regardless of the situation the couple is being invited back again on the show. The Million Dollar Money drop couple however was very hesitant to return stating that the pressure is too much a second time around.
The Million Dollar Money Drop is a game where contestants start off with one million dollars ($1,000,000) and start betting the money on questions. They lose the money they bet on questions they answered incorrectly.
Andriel, Netherlands