Retired police officer from Burleson to be on game show ‘Password’ Wednesday night
Lisa Chick has always loved the game show “Password.” So when in April the retired Fort Worth police officer stepped foot on the newest iteration of the classic show, she was thrilled to find it looked the same as she remembered.
And it just got better from there, Chick said.
“The amperage of the celebrities and some of the silliness, it’s contagious but I held back a little because I didn’t want to be too silly on national television,” Chick told the Star-Telegram on Monday, a day before she would show up on TVs across the nation, playing for her chance to win money with a celebrity partner.
Password is a word association game show where contestants are paired up with celebrity partners trying to guess the “password” to win the round. It’s been airing off and on since 1961, with this newest incarnation hosted by Keke Palmer — one of the stars in Jordan Peele’s latest flick, “Nope” — with Jimmy Fallon on NBC.
Chick wasn’t able to talk about how things went, but said she had the time of her life.
Chick applied for the show in February and was doing interviews. In April, she was being flown out to Los Angeles and put up in a hotel with other contestants from all across the U.S.
They had a boot camp of sorts, dinners and a trip to Universal Studios, all leading up to Chick’s turn on the show. When she got to the set, Chick said everything looked almost just like she remembered it. The retro sign and decorations were there. The only differences, she said, were the technology was newer and the audience was a little farther away from the stage.
Chick said she felt like a real celebrity while they were getting ready — one person doing her makeup, another doing her hair and yet another going over her outfit with a lint roller.
She got to meet Jimmy Fallon (“I think I got to hug him like five times. It was spectacular,” she said), and being paired up with Heidi Klum, who she watches on “America’s Got Talent,” just increased the excitement.
The hardest part of being on the show, once she got past the magnitude of it all, was trying to pull the right words.
“You’ve got like a hundred words floating in your head and once it’s done, you figure you should have given that other word,” Chick said.
The episode airs Wednesday at 9 p.m. on NBC.
