O’Tremba makes a deal on Hollywood game show

A young woman from Lovell learned that being boisterous, smiling a lot and putting on a funny costume will get you places in Hollywood when she attended a taping of the “Let’s Make a Deal” game show in southern California recently.Tiana O’Tremba said she was in Los Angeles on an internship this summer when her mother encouraged her to audition for the popular game show. After doing a little investigation, she found that there were tickets available for the show on one of her days off, so she decided to follow up on her mom’s suggestion.[caption id="attachment_10465" align="alignright" width="225"] Tiana O’Tremba of Lovell is appearing as a contestant on the “Let’s Make a Deal” game show on Thursday, Oct. 29, at 10 a.m. on CBS channel KTVQ-2.[/caption] According to O’Tremba being present in the audience during the taping of the show is, in essence, an audition to be on the show. Makers of the show encourage audience members to dress in funny costumes and to put on somewhat of an animated performance of their own to be considered as contestants on the show.O’Tremba said she followed the tips she learned from a blog she found online and spent about seven hours in line and in the audience vying for a spot on the show.For her audition she dressed as a Greek goddess and incorporated her skills as a cheerleader and dancer to win over the producers of the show who selected her to appear on the show airing today (Thursday) at 10 a.m. on the CBS channel KTVQ-2.O’Tremba said, though she had seen the show before, it had been a while.“My mom is a huge fan, in fact, my whole family loves game shows,” she said.O’Tremba is a senior at Rocky Mountain College in Billings, where she is attending on a four-year cheerleading scholarship. She said her cheerleading experience helped, but the whole ordeal was pretty exhausting.“I learned from reading the blog that the producers are watching you all of the time, even when you’re standing in line, so I had to play to that for several hours,” she said. “It was fun, but I was pretty tired by the end of it all.”O’Tremba is studying business and economics and hopes to be a wedding planner after she graduates from Rocky, hoping to start her own wedding planning business someday.O’Tremba said she did win a prize on the show, but she isn’t allowed to reveal what the prize is until after the show airs. Tiana is the daughter of Scott and Stacy O’Tremba.

By Patti Carpenter