Former DCC a Big Winner on The Price is Right
From Omaha.com
Dancer-actress Micaela Johnson of Omaha was called from the audience to “come on down” in Thursday’s airing of “The Price is Right.”
The show was taped in Los Angeles in October, and Micaela won a dishwasher, a stove, a refrigerator and other items worth about $6,300.
The 2003 Marian High graduate, who will graduate this spring from the University of Nebraska at Omaha, has been auditioning and working in L.A. Her mother, X-ray technician Anna Johnson of Omaha, suggested they try to get on a show.
They waited in line for hours and were interviewed by the show’s producers, who started to move on to the next person. Then Anna added to what Micaela modestly hadn’t mentioned: “She’s also a former Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader and a Miss Nebraska USA!”
When taping began, the audience was so loud that Micaela didn’t hear her name called — her mom excitedly pointed it out on a cue card.
The game was fun, especially with singer Chris Daughtry taking part, but “game show contestant” isn’t the line on her résumé she’s been hoping to add.
She has a team of agents and recently taped an episode of the popular TV comedy “Modern Family,” in which she plays a bride. Micaela, who turned 27 on Jan. 1, is single — and she chuckled at the irony of playing a bride in front of millions of viewers. This year in Omaha she will serve as a bridesmaid for, believe it or not, the 27th time.
She also has written a children’s book about a girl cooking with her parents, and has been hired to dance in a show on Oprah Winfrey’s OWN network.
Watch the episode (Micaela is the first contestant called) here.
