They have a psychologist on the set to talk with contestants and families afterward. When ‘The Moment of Truth’ has perhaps busted up a marriage, is the show responsible? When a contestant answers falsely on a seemingly simple question, Schultz said sometimes ‘they don’t even hear what they’re saying.’ However, various studies say the accuracy of polygraphs can’t be pinpointed, with some tests estimating they’re less than 70% accurate. Schultz said that from what he’s read, the polygraph is 94% to 97% accurate. ‘And somewhere your truth is that you don’t think you’re a good person at all.’ (An attempt to contact Cleri through her MySpace page went unanswered as of press time.) ‘Yet it came up as a lie, which means that somewhere in you, you haven’t forgiven yourself,’ Walberg said. Cleri said she didn’t know, that she does think she’s a good person. Walberg asked why that might have happened. Her family, including her husband, surrounded her. Suddenly, Cleri was shocked and penniless. Then ‘The Moment of Truth’ turned into a modern ‘Scarlet Letter.’ Does Cleri think she’s a good person? She had two more questions to go before winning $200,000. Has she cheated on her husband? Yes, she has. The host, Mark Walberg (not that Mark Wahlberg), resumed asking the questions. Although Cleri’s sister hit the buzzer, to much booing from the audience, when ex-boyfriend Frank asked whether she would leave husband Frank for him, his replacement question was no better: ‘Do you believe I’m the man you should be married to?’Ĭleri answered yes, which was apparently the truth, and got to the $100,000 marker. A segment producer told Schultz that Cleri had been texting Frank all week to find out whether he might be on the show as one of her interrogators.Īs well she should have. He continued: ‘If we’re doing a show called ‘The Moment of Truth,’ we have to be scrupulously honest with people.’Īccording to Schultz, the producers asked ex-boyfriend Frank to keep his appearance a surprise. ‘We let every contestant know that we’re going to reach as deep and as far into their lives as we can. Howard Schultz, the show’s executive producer, said on the telephone Wednesday that they investigate every contestant thoroughly, ‘to create a composite photograph, a mosaic, if you will.’Īnd they know what they’re in for, Schultz said. If they answer a question falsely - as determined by their pre-interview replies - they are bounced from the game with nothing. Along the way, contestants can win $10,000, $25,000 and so on, and once they reach those milestones, they can quit and keep the money. The contestant’s loved ones also get one, and only one, preemptory challenge in which they can hit a buzzer to skip a question they may not want to hear the answer to. The questions are selected from a pre-interview they did while strapped to a polygraph. Contestants must answer 21 questions truthfully in order to win $500,000. ‘The Moment of Truth’ premiered on Fox in January and has performed very well in the ratings. After she answered that question truthfully, her ex-boyfriend, Frank, not to be confused with her husband, Frank, took the stage to ask, ‘If I wanted to get back together with you, would you leave your husband?’ Yes, said Cleri - whose husband, parents and siblings were sitting before her, along with a studio audience and 8.9 million television viewers - she has taken off her wedding ring when out with friends, and, yes, she was still in love with a former boyfriend on her wedding day.
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