Two and a half hours before WABC aired Thursday's "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire", Tony Danza hosted his talk show with Meredith Vieira as a guest. She brought a clip of Jeff Gross' million dollar question, about the etymology of the term "tabby cat". After Meredith read the question, you could see Jeff pondering the question for about eight seconds.
This is a guy who earlier on Wednesday answered the $50,000 question without batting an eye. Ditto the switched question about the piano keys. And swallowed up the first ten of the stack like they were bagels.
You get to know a contestant pretty well when he's on "Millionaire" for three straight days. And you could see it in his eyes even from the brief time he was shown on the "Danza" clip that he wasn't going to go for the million. Moreover, there was no gleam of recognition when the question came up.
So Mr. Danza kinda sorta spoiled the show for me, at least, having actually seen the question before the show aired and the contestant's reaction to it. Danza seemed to think that it could've gone either way, but I knew from looking at it he was walking with $500,000.
Did anyone else also catch this Danza show yesterday? Hell, does anyone admit to watching it? I mean, he ripped off Plinko...what next???