Producers do multiple game shows, Hershey says. “As long as I do the work, they’re good with it.”įor about nine months, Hershey applied for shows, and she had Skype interviews for seven of them, including “The Match Game” and “Beat Shazam.” She joined a Facebook group for game show contestant wannabes. Nobody believed her when she said she was going to get the family on “Family Feud,” she says, but this time they didn’t doubt her. When that time elapsed, she told her family she was going to start applying for other game shows. The family always watched a lot of game shows - “Wheel of Fortune,” “Price is Right” and - of course - “Family Feud,” Hershey says.Īccording to an agreement Hershey signed after “Family Feud,” she couldn’t be on another game show for two years. “We’re kind of a game show family,” Hershey said by phone on Monday afternoon. The Hershey family on “Family Feud” in 2017: Darlene Munson (aunt), Steven Munson (cousin), Diane Hershey (mom), Brandon Hershey (brother) and Bri Hershey. In 2017, Hershey and her cousin, aunt, brother and mom were on “Family Feud.” And that same cousin, Steve Munson, won $33,000 on “The Price is Right” in 2006. Part of the reason is that she’s no stranger to being a contestant on a game show. Contestants don’t know until five minutes before the game starts which of them will have to hustle.īut the 28-year-old teacher can talk about how she got to the show. She can’t reveal who “The Hustler” is on her episode - because it might even be her.
Hershey, a Bethel University graduate, can’t say how she did on the show, which was taped in December 2019. The other contestants not only have to answer trivia, they have to figure out which of them is “The Hustler.” One of the five contestants collaborating to answer trivia questions worth $10,000 each already knows the answers. Hosted by Craig Ferguson (“The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson”), it’s a show with a twist. Hershey appears in the first episode of “The Hustler,” a new evening game show that premieres after “The Bachelor” on Monday, Jan. Not good news for Hershey’s students, but the folks at ABC must have liked that answer. Not the lying part, of course, but Hershey says she can tell when one when of her business students at Robbinsdale Cooper High School is being less than truthful. When the producers of a new game show asked Bri Hershey if she was good at lying or spotting a liar, the North Oaks native had a certain reply: “I’m a high school teacher.