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Local woman ready 'to make a deal'

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Jay Meisel | Highlands Today
Published: February 12, 2013

SEBRING - A Sebring woman who grew up watching "Let's Make a Deal," achieved her desire to appear on the show, she said Friday.

But friends and family of Dalal Zaban will have to wait until Feb. 14 when the show airs at 3 p.m. on WTSP (Channel 10) to find out whether she got her sweetheart of a deal.

The show offers contestants picked from the audience opportunities to make deals that may turn out to be good or bad.

Zaban, who owns Euphoria Mini Spa in Sebring, said she signed up to be on the show because she was attending a skin care conference in California.

She said the episode in which she appears was taped on Oct. 19. Since the show airs on Feb. 14, she was expected to wear a costume with a Valentine's Day theme. Zaban chose to appear with a never-expiring love coupon costume.

"I made it out of cardboard," she said.

When she arrived at the studio, she said, "I had a good feeling."

But regardless of whether the good feeling about being picked and getting a good deal proved true, she said, she got to meet a lot of people and the experience "was really cool."

Zaban, 34, the mother of two daughters, said she and her children watch the show frequently and they discuss whether they would make the deal being offered on that particular episode.

As a contestant, she said, "You want to listen to your gut instinct. I thought, 'What would my daughters do,'" she added.

Zaban said most contestants hope to win money or a car. She decided that if she won a car she would give it to a family she knows that really needs one.

This was the second time she attempted to be a contestant on a game show. She said that several years ago she was in the audience at "The Price is Right," but didn't get picked.

"Let's Make A Deal" made its debut on NBC Television Network on Dec. 30, 1963. Broadcasters in Europe and Asia have produced their own versions.

Now, CBS network has an "all-new version" of the show, which made its debut October 2009, the show's web site states. Produced by Fremantle Media, the hour-long daytime series is hosted by Wayne Brady.

Jmeisel@highlandstoday.com (863) 386-5834