Muhammad received an email saying the show would be holding auditions in New York and for him to send in a headshot and video of himself with a fun fact or two. He got there by first applying on the show’s website several months ago to be a contestant. “I’ve been playing that game all my life so I was really excited to be there.” Muhammad said of the audition process at a hotel in Brooklyn, N.Y., this summer. ![]() The entire experience, from tryout to competition, was quite a thrill for the 28-year-old graduate of Martin Luther King High. ![]() And good grandson that he is, he took grandmother Florence Johnson, in addition to his wife, Trina, with him. Muhammad got his “Wheel of Fortune” fix in a big way when he flew out to Los Angeles to compete on the show. Muhammad would often walk around the corner to the East Germantown home of his grandmother, who was also a big fan. Yaasiyn Muhammad, a social-studies teacher in his second year at Central, has been quite a “Wheel of Fortune” fan since he was a kid.īut with nine brothers and sisters, it was often difficult to get control of the television to watch the game show.
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