Shandi Finnessey To Appear On Wanna Bet
The first season of Wanna Bet is coming to an end. The season finale will feature more ordinary people attempting stunts, tricks, and mental challenges and more celebrities betting on the outcome.This week, viewers can look forward to a contestant using yo-yos to try to light one hundred matches in two minutes; a contestant blowing a ping pong ball to try to hit a target fifty times in a row; a contestant attempting to identify identifying four out of five crushed cars; and a contestant attempting to climb a 200-foot rope in under three minutes.The celebrity contestants/judges for the season finale are Mo’nique, George Wendt, Tom Green and Shandi Finnessey.They will be attempting to win money for charity.
Shandi Finnessey is an American beauty queen, model and television hostess. She is best known for winning the Miss USA title,as Miss Missouri USA. She had previously held the title of Miss Missouri 2002 and competed in Miss America where she won a preliminary award.In 2002, Finnessey authored a children’s book, The Furrtails, which helps children appreciate individuality and understand their peers who have disabilities. She became Chuck Woolery's co-host on the game show Lingo in August 2005 at the start of the show's fourth season. Lingo airs regularly on GSN. In 2008 Lingo was put on hiatus from making any new shows, so now only reruns air. In April 2006, she began appearing on the interactive series PlayMania, another GSN original. On February 23, 2007, PlayMania broke into two shows, 100 Winners and quiznation; Finnessey became the co-host of quiznation, a revised but similar version of the original PlayMania. She remained a co-host until October 21, 2007, several days before the show's finale.
