{"id":2094089,"date":"2025-10-15T23:12:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T23:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2094089"},"modified":"2025-10-15T23:12:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T23:12:07","slug":"wheel-of-fortune-crowns-its-biggest-winner-ever-contestant-had-to-keep-prize-a-secret-for-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wheel-of-fortune-crowns-its-biggest-winner-ever-contestant-had-to-keep-prize-a-secret-for-months\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Wheel of Fortune\u2019 Crowns Its Biggest Winner Ever, Contestant Had to Keep Prize a Secret For Months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>Christina Derevanjik<\/strong> became the biggest winner ever on <em>Wheel of Fortune<\/em> when she won a whopping $1,035,155 on Sept. 30 \u2014 and for four long months, she couldn\u2019t spill her life-changing news to her boyfriend, per <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/10\/01\/lifestyle\/wheel-of-fortune-winner-kept-1m-prize-secret-from-new-boyfriend-for-months-he-had-no-idea\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:New York Post;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"><em>celebrity.land<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Christina nabbed the \u201cMillion Dollar\u201d wedge and advanced to the bonus round. Then she solved the \u201cLiving Things\u201d final puzzle \u201cPACK OF COYOTES.\u201d She collapsed as host <strong>Ryan Seacrest<\/strong> revealed she had indeed landed on the million-dollar envelope! Teary-eyed Ryan and longtime letter-turner <strong>Vanna White<\/strong> congratulated her as confetti rained down.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"relative mb-4\">\n<div class=\"relative\"><button aria-label=\"View larger image\" class=\"group absolute bottom-3 right-3 size-10 md:size-[50px] lg:inset-0 lg:size-full lg:bg-transparent\" data-ylk=\"elm:expand;itc:1;sec:image-lightbox;slk:lightbox-open;\"><span class=\"absolute bottom-0 right-0 rounded-full bg-white p-3 opacity-100 shadow-elevation-3 transition-opacity duration-300 group-hover:block group-hover:opacity-100 md:p-[17px] lg:bottom-6 lg:right-6 lg:bg-white\/90 lg:p-5 lg:opacity-0 lg:shadow-none\"><svg viewbox=\"0 0 22 22\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"size-4 lg:size-6\" width=\"22\" height=\"22\"><path d=\"M12.372.92c0-.506.41-.916.915-.916L21 0l-.004 7.712a.917.917 0 0 1-1.832 0V3.183l-6.827 6.828-1.349-1.348 6.828-6.828h-4.529a.915.915 0 0 1-.915-.915M1.835 17.816l6.828-6.828 1.349 1.349-6.829 6.827h4.529a.915.915 0 0 1 0 1.831L0 21l.004-7.713a.916.916 0 0 1 1.831 0z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/button><dialog aria-label=\"Modal Dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\" class=\"fixed inset-0 z-4 size-full max-h-none max-w-none bg-white hidden\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"relative text-sm mt-1 pr-2.5\">\n<p> <span class=\"wp-caption-text\">ABC<\/span><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">However, that episode was taped in May, and Christina was sworn to secrecy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">While she was holding a viewing party in Stamford, Conn., her unnamed beau, whom she had started dating just weeks before her taping, was watching in Boston, and he learned about her windfall with the rest of us.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cHe had no idea,\u201d says Christina, a marketing manager who will bank about $660,000 after taxes. \u201cHe called me and was just so excited. He is absolutely thrilled for me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This story <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nationalexaminer.com\/wheel-of-fortune-crowns-its-biggest-winner-ever-contestant-had-to-keep-prize-a-secret-for-months\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:\u2018Wheel of Fortune\u2019 Crowns Its Biggest Winner Ever, Contestant Had to Keep Prize a Secret For Months;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">\u2018Wheel of Fortune\u2019 Crowns Its Biggest Winner Ever, Contestant Had to Keep Prize a Secret For Months<\/a> first appeared on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nationalexaminer.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:National Examiner;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"><i>National Examiner<\/i><\/a>. Add <i>National Examiner<\/i> as a <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/google.com\/preferences\/source?q=nationalexaminer.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Preferred Source by clicking here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Preferred Source by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christina Derevanjik became the biggest winner ever on Wheel of Fortune when she won a whopping $1,035,155 on Sept. 30 \u2014 and for four long months, she couldn\u2019t spill her life-changing news to her boyfriend, per celebrity.land. Christina nabbed the \u201cMillion Dollar\u201d wedge and advanced to the bonus round. Then she solved the \u201cLiving Things\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2094090,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[378237,395223,395222,21872,395221,346633,39864],"class_list":["post-2094089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-christina","tag-christina-derevanjik","tag-national-examiner","tag-ryan-seacrest","tag-teary-eyed-ryan","tag-vanna-white","tag-wheel-of-fortune"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/\u2018Wheel-of-Fortune-Crowns-Its-Biggest-Winner-Ever-Contestant-Had.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2094089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2094089"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2094089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2094091,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2094089\/revisions\/2094091"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2094090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2094089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2094089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2094089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}