Price Is Right star passed out on live radio
Price Is Right star Rod Roddy passed out on live radio after Miss America incident
The Price Is Right announcer Rod Roddy found himself getting into a sticky situation when he bit off more than he could could handle with a former Miss America
Former The Price Is Right announcer Rod Roddy had quite the eventful career prior to finding his iconic TV role.
During the 1970s he worked on Hotline, a Dallas based radio show on KLIF that saw him earn a reputation for being a shock jock. However, he came unstuck when he met one beauty pageant guest who didn’t take to his salacious line of questioning too kindly.
The situation was exacerbated further when he soaked her with ice water, which allegedly prompted the guest to throw a cup of hot coffee into his face, causing him to pass out live on air. This comes as The Price Is Right was recently pulled off the air due to a scheduling shake-up with CBS.
She appeared on the show to promote her new cosmetics line with Amway, but Roddy believed she was the reigning Miss America.
Randy explained, “So he booked her on the show… and she’s only there to hype Amway because they’re having some convention in Dallas. And he’s asking questions about women’s lib and ‘Did you feel objectification running around in a bathing suit for a beauty pageant?’ And all she wants to talk about is a new line of cosmetics from Amway.”
Randy said that Rod began to raise his voice to the guest, as sparks began to fly between the pair.
He continued, “Eventually, it escalated to where he poured a portion of a pitcher of ice water onto her head, but instead of her just being aghast and upset and whatever, she took her hot coffee and threw it in his face.”
He then described how Rod was left so startled by the impact of the roasting hot liquid that he began hyperventilating.
He said, “He kind of passed out and hit the counter where the microphone is, so the audience heard a big clunk, and it fell on the floor. The engineer was, like, ‘I don’t know what to do.’ And it took like 10 long seconds of silence until he got some music on. During that 10 seconds of dead air, it’s untold how many people called the equivalent of 911, I don’t even think that was a number in those days, but call the local authorities.”
An ambulance was dispatched after the emergency call was placed and paramedics arriving at the studio discovered that Roddy was “out cold.” Randy said, “They revive him, and he’s fine. I mean, he just passed out, which can happen.”
After the former Miss America left the studio and he was revived, Rod got back on air where Randy said he “starts lacing into her.”
He then announced on air where his listeners could go to find the female guest, “He said, ‘This Miss America is at the Amway convention, which is being held at the hotel XYZ, and I have here in the notes to contact her. Here’s the phone number of the hotel, and she’s in room blank blank blank. And I suggest you call and say that she was outrageous on the show, and she should be embarrassed.’”
Rod ultimately had his radio show canceled.
