Former professional ball participant Rashad Jennings spins gameshow gaffe into comedy gold on ‘Jimmy Kimmel Stay’

After committing an embarrassing blunder on final week’s Celebrity Wheel of Fortune, former NFL star Rashad Jennings wasn’t simply being a very good sport about it on Jimmy Kimmel Stay! Monday, he revealed that he has parlayed the second into a brand new media enterprise.

The 38-year-old Jennings, who was a operating again within the NFL for eight seasons earlier than happening to win Season 24 of Dancing With the Stars again in 2017, officially went viral for his lack of information about director Quentin Tarantino on Wheel of Fortune. However he has taken that sudden consideration and really ran with it. Right here’s a take a look at the way it all unfolded.

The way it began

On Superstar Wheel of Fortune final week, Jennings was enjoying alongside retired NFL gamers Marcellus Wiley and Jared Allen when a puzzle got here up within the “Rhyme Time” class. The ultimate puzzle was “Driving to Reno with Quentin Tarantino,” and Jennings was spinning the wheel and had your entire puzzle exhibiting on the board apart from the letter “Q.”

When Jennings didn’t seem to know what the lacking letter was, host Pat Sajak provided him one other spin within the hopes that it could come to him. However when Jennings needed to guess a letter the subsequent time round, he tried out “P,” which is, after all, incorrect and would make the title Puentin Tarantino.

Whereas his enjoying opponents didn’t make an excessive amount of of it, the second has definitely made headlines and garnered plenty of reaction from social media because it occurred.

Jennings would go on to win a complete of $6,000 for the sport, which Sajak bumped as much as a cool $30,000 for the beneficiary of these winnings: the Rashad Jennings Basis.

How its going

On Monday, Kimmel stated he couldn’t cease interested by Jennings and his misstep over the weekend, so to get the entire story he determined to convey “essentially the most unlucky Wheel of Fortune contestant from 2023” on the present to ask him “what occurred?” in particular person.

“Properly, what occurred was, I used to be flawed,” Jennings stated to a lot laughter. “I had one among them belongings you wish to name a mind fart, and it occurred on the most inopportune time.”

As Kimmel dug just a little deeper he discovered that Jennings is definitely “not oblivious” to Tarantino’s motion pictures, and actually he really loves them.

“However when that occurred and never having the primary letter I used to be identical to, ‘uhhhh’ mind fart,” Jennings stated, making an attempt to additional clarify his gaffe. “As quickly because it popped up I knew.”

So, with Kimmel’s sidekick Guillermo Rodriguez dressed up in his finest Vanna White gown, Kimmel provided Jennings the possibility to redeem himself with some WoF-style puzzles that had been all lacking only one letter:

_HOSTBUSTERS

_ILK AND COOKIES

_EEPING UP WITH THE _ARDASHIANS

Jennings dealt with the puzzles with no drawback — clearly — and was given a prize pack for redeeming himself that included a field set of each Tarantino film, the Wheel of Fortune board sport and a crossword puzzle e-book with nearly all of the letters already crammed in.

Earlier than he left the stage, Jennings stated he was “humbled to fulfill” Kimmel as a result of apparently the host predicted Jennings’s DWTS victory manner again when, and Jennings remembered and needed to say thanks.

The previous gridiron star then revealed that he’s beginning a brand new podcast primarily based on this expertise with WoF, “as a result of we make errors however I at all times land on my toes.”

Jennings stated he’s leaning into the name Puentin Tarantino for the podcast and that he and his friends will “have enjoyable and speak about errors that individuals have in life and the way they landed on their toes.”

Kimmel was pleasantly stunned on the information that he “really parlayed” this into one thing and wished him effectively. When the section was over, Guillermo was in a position to change out of his Vanna gown.

Jimmy Kimmel Stay airs weeknights at 11:35 p.m. on ABC.