Cyber Lucy

Cyber Lucy was an animated CGI co-host (whose movements and voice were provided by Tanika Ray) on Wheel 2000, a short-lived kids version of Wheel of Fortune from 1997 to 1998.

History[]

A tough-as-nails, wide-eyed dancer and actress, Lucy was born into a family that dabbled in the arts (her mother Mable was a cartoon stuntwoman). Growing up in the shadows of the entertainment industry and the computer world as a child of the information age and despite being a top-notch student with a natural instinct for computer science, she was drawn to the glamour of show business.

In late June or early 1997, on a whim, she decided to "beam out" to Los Angeles and immediately won over the employees of Scott Sternberg who were developing Wheel 2000.

Hosting Style[]

Interestingly, Lucy appears to have based her style on that of Susan Stafford. Like Stafford, Lucy knew the puzzles and their letter frequencies, sometimes yelled out encouragement to the players and was very "physical" in her work (namely, moving around in some way when on-camera) unlike Stafford, However, she did not interact directly with the puzzles themselves (barring one known instance of sitting on top of a letter) due to the letters being revealed automatically.

Also like Stafford, Lucy was more of a "co-host" than Vanna White other than interacting with David Sidoni, she asked the day's contestants questions during their interviews, read off the category choices, announced the names of home viewers if the www.wheel2000.com wedge was landed on, informed the contestants if their letter choice was in the puzzle (and if so, how many), explained some puzzles after they were solved and read the fee plugs at the end of the show.