--- title: Woman in wheelchair who won treadmill on price is right on Kimmel description: Danielle Perez continues to be a great sport canonical: https://time.com/3850241/jimmy-kimmel-price-is-right-contestant-wheelchair-treadmill/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-05-07T15:19:00.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:19:32.556Z og:title: Jimmy Kimmel Had a Nice Surprise for the 'Price Is Right' Contestant in a Wheelchair og:description: Danielle Perez continues to be a great sport og:url: https://time.com/3850241/jimmy-kimmel-price-is-right-contestant-wheelchair-treadmill/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Jimmy Kimmel Had a Nice Surprise for the 'Price Is Right' Contestant in a Wheelchair twitter:description: Danielle Perez continues to be a great sport twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Jimmy Kimmel Had a Nice Surprise for the _Price Is Right_ Contestant in a Wheelchair by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker May 7, 2015 3:19 PM UTC by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker May 7, 2015 3:19 PM UTC _The Price is Right_ has had a few notable gaffes lately, like when a model accidentally [helped a contestant win a car](http://time.com/3770193/price-is-right-contestant-mistake-car/) or when the [announcer wiped out](http://time.com/3670215/price-is-right-announcer-trips-on-treadmill/) while running backwards. But those blunders pale in comparison to the moment earlier this week when a woman who lost both her legs in an accident [won a treadmill.](http://time.com/3848332/price-is-right-wheelchair-treadmill/) The winner, Danielle Perez, is good spirited about it all. “This is literally the best day of my life,” Perez, who works as a comedian, tweeted. “I’ve been popping wheelies all day.” She also tried to start her own meme about the awkwardness of it all: > [](https://twitter.com/DivaDelux/status/595667205641089025) Wednesday night, Perez stopped by _Jimmy Kimmel Live!_ to talk about the mismatched prize with the comedian. She continued to show off how good-natured she is about it all, laughing, “Well, at least we know it’s not rigged.” Kimmel then tested her price-guessing skills and rewarded her with a much more appropriate prize. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3850241/jimmy-kimmel-price-is-right-contestant-wheelchair-treadmill/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3850241/jimmy-kimmel-price-is-right-contestant-wheelchair-treadmill/"},"headline":"Jimmy Kimmel Had a Nice Surprise for the Price Is Right Contestant in a Wheelchair","datePublished":"2015-05-07T15:19:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:19:32.556Z","description":"Danielle Perez continues to be a great sport","url":"https://time.com/3850241/jimmy-kimmel-price-is-right-contestant-wheelchair-treadmill/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","Jimmy Kimmel","jimmy kimmel live"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3850241/jimmy-kimmel-price-is-right-contestant-wheelchair-treadmill/","name":"Jimmy Kimmel Had a Nice Surprise for the Price Is Right Contestant in a Wheelchair"}}]}] ```