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Life as Wheel of Fortune\u2019s first million-dollar winner is not as glamorous as fans of the game show might think, according to Michelle Moore<\/a>, who spun her way to a $1,026,800 payday in 2008. \u201cHonestly, because I mean, let\u2019s be honest, you don\u2019t get the full amount of money,\u201d Moore told Fox News Digital<\/a> in a new interview, referring to the taxes applied to such a windfall. \u201cSo, a million dollars, it doesn\u2019t really go that far.\u201d Moore, who competed on the show under the name Michelle Loewenstein<\/a>, recalled paying off student loans and bills, buying a car, and investing for a future home with her earnings. However,…<\/div>\n

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Life as Wheel of Fortune\u2019s first million-dollar winner is not as glamorous as fans of the game show might think, according to Michelle Moore, who spun her way to a $1,026,800 payday in 2008. \u201cHonestly, because I mean, let\u2019s be honest, you don\u2019t get the full amount of money,\u201d Moore told Fox News Digital in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2249047,"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-2249046","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\/First-\u2018Wheel-of-Fortune-1-Million-Winner-Says-Money-\u2018Doesnt.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2249046","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=2249046"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2249046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2249048,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2249046\/revisions\/2249048"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2249047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2249046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2249046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2249046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}