The Game Show Legend Who Was Once A Contestant On The Price Is Right

Vanna White made her television debut as a contestant in the Miss Georgia USA 1978 pageant when she was 19 years old, placing fourth-runner up, per TV Guide. Two years later, she made her appearance on "The Price Is Right." 

In a video of White's appearance on the episode uploaded to YouTube, White can be seen in a light blue t-shirt with the phrase "Get Serious" across the chest and a price tag sticker with her name on it. When called to famously "come on down," she bounds from the crowd to Contestant Row. Barker teases White about her shirt, noting that one of the crew had read its slogan and responded, "I am, I am!" Continued Barker, "I thought you would like to know that."

White and the other competitors are then asked to guess the price of a brand-new set of exercise equipment to determine who goes on to the next round. Guessing last, White asks Barker to state her competitors' bids again. Barker decides to tease White again, saying, "You know, you're so busy looking at yourself on the monitor, you don't know what's going on!" Decades later, White swore to Yahoo! she was looking to her friend for advice.

White's time on the show was brief. Though the closest of all the contestants to the equipment's actual price, she over-bid and was thus disqualified from going further. As she told Yahoo!, she didn't go home with a "doggone thing."