Real life

Happened to see a Deal or No Deal rerun on GSN yesterday when Hayley Marie Norman was opening all the suitcases. She was the girl usually on case #25. I didn't see the start of this particular game, so I guess the contestant really liked her and wanted her to open all the cases.

As I watched, I couldn't help thinking about the unpleasantness (delicate term) Ms. Norman was involved in last year. Don't want to overplay the story, because it sounds like pretty small stuff. I couldn't find any follow-up stories, so things must have been settled out of court.

But game show fans like me, perched on a chair in front of the tube, sometimes forget that the folks in these games have lives of their own. And stuff happens in those lives.

Another example is Stuart Somerstein, who I blogged about a while back. He was the loud, off-key singer in that memorable episode of I've Got a Secret, when a bunch of civvies with appropriate names collaborated on In the Good Old Summertime. Turns out that Stuart took his lumps in later life, including some jail time for an embezzlement case. (At least I assume it's the same Stuart Somerstein. There's only one in New York, if Google is to be believed.) It's not all fun and games.