The Wheel of Fortune, Gerry Scotti ready to transform into “ghost for Samira”. Flop episode, social criticism

It is Saturday 27 December 2025, but even in this period which for many is one of celebration and rest, “The Wheel of Fortune” continues to keep viewers company, certain of giving a precious gift to those who have become fond of the quiz over the months. Gerry Scotti enters welcomed by the music of Fortuna Five, this is the name given to the band, who “start the dancing”, which is why upon entering the studio he immediately says: “And now I’ll dance”, and then invites the audience to do the same.

“Here the party never ends gentlemen, we kept you company on Christmas Eve, on Christmas, now I’ll accompany you towards New Year’s Eve, every evening it will be a party with The Wheel of Fortune. We will always be together”.

Gerry Scotti between the band and Samira

Gerry Scotti then turns to Marco from the band, asking if he and his bandmates liked the name they were given: “The pronunciation is wonderful”, he says. The host, however, underlines how Diego Fornaciari, Zucchero’s nephew and another member of the group, was disappointed by the choice, given that to make fun of him he had promised to call the group ‘Los Fornaciaros’.

Samira Lui then enters the studio wearing a short, tight gold dress, a color suitable for the holidays, welcomed by Gerry who makes fun of her for the gesture she made with her hands to accompany the song “All I Want for Christmas is You”. “A 1950s move, as that friend of mine said: ‘Darling, do you want a grappa?’ I’ll tell the story later, otherwise we’ll be here for an hour and a half.”

The Wheel of Fortune, episode 27 December 2025 – What happened

Defending the title is Jimmy, who comes from Pesaro, a software developer, who became champion yesterday, winning 12 thousand euros. As he himself revealed, he has been part of the Ugly Club for some time, which has aroused quite a bit of curiosity: the initiative was born in 1970 in the municipality of Piobbico, where he lives, where he realized the presence of several women who were no longer very young and ugly, with the risk that they might not get married, exactly like other men with the same characteristics, from there it was decided to found this club, hoping to help them to have a partner, which then turned into an organization against discrimination. At this point Gerry underlines: “It’s enough to divide the world into beautiful and ugly, one is beautiful or ugly only on the inside”, and then turns to the champion’s girlfriend: “If word gets around that an ugly guy gets married to someone like her then the buses leave for the country”.

Challenging him are Alessia from Bologna, employed in the beverage sector, and Davide from Turin, where he is a content specialist.

Starting off strongly by guessing the phrase in the heat dedicated to time is Jimmy himself, in reference to what happened in Strasbourg in the 16th century, with the so-called “dancing plague”, when people went down to the beach to dance even without music. There had thus been hundreds of deaths in parties that had never been organized and never been able to explain.

At the moment in which the champion turns the wheel Scotti does not fail to make a joke in reference to the screams of the audience in the background: “You shouted Olè half an hour before. During the World Cup there were those who watched the match with digital terrestrial and those with satellite, if you watched it with satellite you heard ‘Goal’ shouting from the windows even if they hadn’t taken the shot yet, the same thing happens here”. The champion manages to take the lead, also facilitated by opponents who do not seem to be as incisive as had happened in other episodes, but he too sometimes seems to lack the winning edge. Despite this, it is still the man from the Marche who confirms himself as champion with 13,600 euros, the attempts of the two challengers prove to be ineffective. There is also the usual joke from Gerry a Samirain reference to one of the sentences to guess: “I would like to be a little ghost too to stay at home with you”, not entirely appreciated by those at home, to tell the truth.

However, Jimmy has the chance to further increase his haul with “Wonder Wheel”, something he failed to do yesterday, when he didn’t get a single sentence right. Indeed, the young man also has the share of the 500 Hybrid, which is why he could win it if he guessed all three sentences.

This time the champion guesses the first and third sentences, therefore a better result than the previous day, despite losing the chance of winning the car. Scotti was tempted to show the red envelope, then he changes his mind, even if the public would have liked something else, which is why he jokes: “You come and present”. However, the first green envelope contains only 100 euros, inevitably he refuses, knowing that he can take home the contents of envelope 3, where there are 15 thousand euros. Unfortunately in the only red one there were even 200 thousand euros!

The public’s dismay

However, the episode did not convince some of the viewers, who followed “The Wheel of Fortune” and have commented on the incident on social media. The value of the competitors, in fact, did not seem to be up to those who stood out in the past months, something that many have pointed out.

“The wheel of the poor”, “Not being able to understand that you have written ‘Men and women’ on the front, is there really anything to worry about”, “Are we sure the boy had the right audition?”, “I have to think that taking part in the quiz in person will cloud your mind because you can’t believe that they are so poor”, “But where do they find these geniuses?”, “Samira is clearly full of these people who don’t know how to play and Gerry even more so”, “Never seen such a poor champion”.“, are just some of the comments that appeared on X.

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