{"id":2225003,"date":"2026-01-06T23:37:31","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T23:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2225003"},"modified":"2026-01-06T23:37:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T23:37:31","slug":"wheel-of-fortune-how-did-1-million-winners-spend-their-earnings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wheel-of-fortune-how-did-1-million-winners-spend-their-earnings\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Wheel of Fortune\u2019: How Did $1 Million Winners Spend Their Earnings?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Only five people have won the $1 million grand prize on Wheel of Fortune<\/a> \u2014 four on the syndicated version and one on the celebrity edition. How did those five winners spend their earnings? Read on to find out. Although Wheel of Fortune<\/a> premiered in January 1975, the $1 million prize wasn\u2019t introduced until 2008. Typically, the highest prize in the Bonus Round is $100,000. But if a contestant lands on the $1 million wedge during the game, solves that puzzle, doesn\u2019t land on any Bankrupts, and wins the game, the $100,000 envelope is replaced with the $1 million envelope. It is not a guarantee, as contestants have to not only correctly solve the puzzle, but also…<\/div>\n

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Only five people have won the $1 million grand prize on Wheel of Fortune \u2014 four on the syndicated version and one on the celebrity edition. How did those five winners spend their earnings? Read on to find out. Although Wheel of Fortune premiered in January 1975, the $1 million prize wasn\u2019t introduced until 2008. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2225004,"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":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2225003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/\u2018Wheel-of-Fortune-How-Did-1-Million-Winners-Spend-Their.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2225003","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=2225003"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2225003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2225005,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2225003\/revisions\/2225005"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2225004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2225003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2225003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2225003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}