Drew Carey Says ‘Value Is Proper’ Contestants Get Drunk or Excessive on Gummies

Drew Carey reveals The Value Is Proper gamers typically take a little bit of liquid braveness earlier than approaching down!

Although the contestants — who’re picked from the dwell studio viewers — are the host’s “favourite a part of the present,” Carey, 66, revealed that he can inform that some drink alcohol or use different leisure substances earlier than taking the stage.

“They’ll have a [marijuana] gummy or I’ll odor alcohol on their breath. Commonplace,” he advised TV Insider. “There was a man right here that was tripping on mushrooms. He got here with a bunch of associates.”

Carey revealed that he did not notice that the contestant was beneath the affect till later. The participant was a “sketch [comedy] man” he later bumped into on the United Residents Brigade comedy theater.

“They had been like, ‘Did you see that man who claimed to be a skateboarding rabbi?'” he recalled. “I requested him what he did for a residing. And he goes, ‘I’m a skateboarding rabbi.’ He didn’t suppose he was going to get picked, and he completely tripped.”

Whereas Carey might expertise his fair proportion of zany characters, he mentioned that he has essentially the most enjoyable with the contestants on the present.

“They’re regular folks that dwell regular lives,” he defined. “There are not any CEOs, ultra-rich higher administration. They don’t come to The Value Is Proper. These are center class, working class. Each faith. It’s a cross-section of America.”

He continued: “Common individuals are extra attention-grabbing than celebrities. Truthfully. They’ve all had their very own issues to beat and their very own demons, to get their very own particular lives. I be taught extra from them than I do from anyone.”

In 2007, Carey took over internet hosting the beloved present from Bob Barker. Since then, he is made the present his personal with a brand new set, brand and theme music whereas cementing his place in recreation present historical past.

Whereas talking solely with PEOPLE at CBS’ fall schedule celebration on Could 2, the longstanding recreation present host revealed he had no plans of retiring from his submit — in truth, Carey mentioned he is planning on performing his position to his grave.

“Ideas of dying on stage with a microphone in my hand have gone by means of my thoughts,” he mentioned with amusing. “I by no means wish to go away. I am having such an excellent time there. All people treats me nice and the forged is nice and the manufacturing workplace is nice.”

“I actually really feel supported and cherished there and needed,” Carey continues. “While you’re 65 and within the leisure enterprise, you do not actually get that that always. I am in a reasonably uncommon state of affairs so I wanna maintain that going so long as I can.”

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The Value Is Proper airs weekdays at 11 a.m. ET on CBS.