{"id":842701,"date":"2026-08-04T02:08:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T02:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/842701\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T02:08:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T02:08:12","slug":"tipping-point-australia-2026-todd-woodbridge-stumped-by-contestants-awkward-ring-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/842701\/","title":{"rendered":"Tipping Point Australia 2026: Todd Woodbridge stumped by contestant\u2019s awkward ring proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Todd Woodbridge<\/a> has navigated many weird and wonderful moments<\/a> as host<\/a> of Tipping Point Australia<\/a>, but a wannabe bride awkwardly rejecting a designer ring<\/a> had him stumped.<\/p>\n

Todd had to take back a ring worth $10,000 after Elly, a radio host on the Sunshine Coast, decided not to play for it, declaring her partner could instead buy his own ring.<\/p>\n

\"Todd<\/p>\n

Todd clearly had big plans for the couple… but Elly wasn\u2019t onboard.\u00a0Nine<\/p>\n

She had made it through to the show\u2019s jackpot round, but after failing to get the jackpot counter over the machine\u2019s tipping point, Todd declared \u201cJackpot Temptation\u201d \u2013 offering her major money for further counters, but only if she gave up her current $3700 prize money.<\/p>\n

Todd offered her five counters to keep the jackpot at $20,000, which Elly wasn\u2019t impressed by, joking that thanks to his \u201cTennis<\/a> money\u201d, surely he could do better.<\/p>\n

But then the host said he had \u201csomething special\u201d for her \u2013 a custom-made engagement ring valued at $10,000.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat about something like this?\u201d he said, taking a ring box from his jacket pocket.<\/p>\n

Turning to Elly\u2019s boyfriend of four years, Dan, in the audience, the host joked it was \u201cto get [him] out of a little trouble.\u201d<\/p>\n

Earlier in the episode, Elly had told him she couldn\u2019t call Dan\u2019s sister, Kaylee, her sister-in-law yet because Dan still hadn\u2019t \u201cpopped the question.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBoo,\u201d Kaylee reacted from next to her brother, who quipped: \u201cNo pressure.\u201d<\/p>\n

It was understandable that after that, Elly was suspicious that this was an elaborate plan Dan and the host had colluded on, but Dan denied he had prepped any of this.<\/p>\n

After contemplating the offer, Elly chose to instead take the money she had earned.<\/p>\n

\"Tipping<\/p>\n

Well, that didn\u2019t go how the host had hoped!\u00a0Nine<\/p>\n

\u201c$3700 is enough to get me to Japan, and maybe then he\u2019ll pop the question,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Todd was stunned by the decision.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re waiting for him to pop the question, but he needs a ring to do it with,\u201d Todd said. <\/p>\n

\u201cHe can buy that,\u201d she replied, to gasps from the crowd.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is absolutely beautiful, though. One like this would be good, babe, just for reference,\u201d she told Dan in the crowd.<\/p>\n

\"Tipping<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Dan and his sister watched on from the audience!\u00a0Nine<\/p>\n

Todd was stumped, asking if there was anything he could do to twist her arm, and cheers from the audience were clearly supporting her giving it a go \u2013 but Elly didn\u2019t want to budge.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think there are too many gaps on that top shelf,\u201d she said, looking at the machine. \u201cI\u2019ll take the money and run.\u201d<\/p>\n

While Elly walked away with $3700, the host had to swoop in and awkwardly place the ring back in his suit pocket \u2013 hopefully to be won by another more willing contestant in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Todd Woodbridge has navigated many weird and wonderful moments as host of Tipping Point Australia, but a wannabe…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":842702,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-842701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=842701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/842702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=842701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=842701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=842701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}