The Prize Is Wrong: Wheelchair-bound contestant wins treadmill on TV show

A wheelchair-bound woman with no legs has won a treadmill on US game show The Price Is Right.

In an episode this week Danielle Perez was called down to the stage with host Drew Carey, and seemed thrilled.

“I’m so excited right now!” she said.

Danielle had to correctly guess the higher cost out of a luxury sauna – and a treadmill.

“Oh my god, these are really nice!” she said.

Host Drew Carey seemed to take her cue and remained oblivious to the potential insensitivity of the second prize.

“So we’ve got this nice treadmill, and we’ve got this beautiful sauna,” he said.

Danielle correctly guessed the sauna was worth $3,965, and won both.

As the show went to air in the US social media lit up with criticism.

“The Price is Right just gave a treadmill to a girl in a wheelchair… I know it’s random prizes, but c’mon,” one tweet read.

But Danielle herself has taken it in stride, updating her Twitter profile to read: “camera ready, ambiguously ethnic, woman in a wheelchair who just won a TREADMILL on The Price Is Right.”

She has re-tweeted several articles and comments about the prize, and even posted a screenshot of her face after the prize was revealed.