Or at least one contestant. Her name is Jamie Kleinsorge. I first came across her when an item about roller derby, of all things, turned up in a Google News search on Wheel of Fortune. Seems that Jamie is a roller derby girl in Missouri, and she uses the name Vanna Wipeout (really). That's because she supposedly won $114,700 on Wheel of Fortune in 2008.
I put up a faux tweet about the odd story, along with a picture of some of Jamie's roller derby buddies. But the big win on Wheel bothered me, because I couldn't find any record on the Internet of Jamie Kleinsorge winning on the show. Didn't want my faux tweet to be wrong.
Sure enough, the old maiden name switcheroo had gotten me. After a long hunt through Google, I finally figured out that Jamie Christianson really had won big money on Wheel, then married Dan Kleinsorge in 2011. Jamie's current day job is community organizing, and her mild, bespectacled appearance doesn't exactly suggest the rock 'em, sock 'em world of roller derby. But you never know about people's hobbies.
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