Teacher who won big on game show vows to buy new shoes for every student at her school

An Australian teacher who won $20,000 on a game show vowed to buy every student at her school a new pair of shoes.

But she almost didn’t get the win.

When Bri Dredge locked in the wrong answer on the Australian show ‘Hot Seat,’ host Eddie McGuire probes her to “have another think,” reports the Herald Sun.

After hearing about her plans to buy shoes for all 200 students at Yuille Park Community College, an inspired McGuire really wanted to see her win.

Bri’s $20,000 question was: “First published in 1929, is T.S. Eliot’s famous work ‘Old Possums Book of Practical’ what?”

The teacher could choose between: birds, cats, advice and poetry.

Dredge locks in the incorrect ‘poetry,’ but McGuire doesn’t want to see things end like that.

“Have another think,” he tells her.

And, after taking his cues, Dredge grins, and changes her answer to ‘cats.’

McGuire later told Confidential that he did not “technically” give the answer away.

“Put it this way, she wasn’t going to get the wrong answers.”

But Dredge said that she “didn’t take too much of what Eddie said as a hint.”

“You know how he always says: ‘Are you sure?’ [The show’s producer] told us not to listen to Eddie.”

“I knew T.S. Eliot wrote poetry, and Old Possums Book of Cats, is in poetry form. It was rattling my brain.”

The next day at school, Dredge — who said that giving shoes to her students “is a way to give back to a community that gives so much to us” — was met with a wave of love.

“I walked into school and every student in the whole school has given me a hug and said thank you,” Dredge told the Australian Associated Press.

“The look on their faces was worth all the money that I won.”