Did ya hear the one about the Regis cake?

As often noted around here, game show contestant stories abound in the Google news cache. But this one about a Millionaire contestant from Las Vegas named Shae Wilhite stands out. In fact, the story looks like it might have occupied more than fifteen minutes of a bored reporter's time.

Shae managed to wheedle sixty-four grand away from Michael Davies and company back in 2001, when Regis was still a decade from retirement. She was working for a law firm at the time, and her lawyer phone-a-friend had to interrupt a deposition for her question about the Iliad. The phone-a-friend got it right and Shae lived happily ever after, or at least until the question about the Guerilla Girls (who?) induced her to walk away.

Taxes reduced the winnings to thirty-eight thousand, which Shae spent on a car, lasik eye surgery and, of course, a trip to Disneyland. She always had ambitions as a stand-up comic - the article is punctuated with some of her groaners - so she tried her jokes on the Vegas club scene for a while.

Comedy didn't work out so well. Laughs have apparently grown short in recession-wracked Sin City. But the sunny and plus-sized Shae wasn't crushed and has now started her own bakery. She's thinking about selling a Regis cake with lots of cream cheese. He's a little cheesy, doncha know.