{"id":852620,"date":"2026-08-12T13:44:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T13:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/852620\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T13:44:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T13:44:12","slug":"tipping-point-australia-2026-todd-woodbridges-shock-as-mum-forced-on-show-by-kids-wins-life-changing-jackpot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/852620\/","title":{"rendered":"Tipping Point Australia 2026: Todd Woodbridge\u2019s shock as mum forced on show by kids wins life-changing jackpot"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bec, mum-of-five from Geelong, had no idea she would be competing on Tipping Point Australia<\/a>, let alone playing for a life-changing $20,000 jackpot win. <\/p>\n

And neither did host Todd Woodbridge<\/a> who was shocked to learn her middle daughter Ruby was the brains behind the brilliant idea. She even planned exactly how her mum would win.<\/p>\n

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The TV host was impressed. \u00a0Nine<\/p>\n

\u201cRuby, you put mum up to this?\u201d the Gold Logie nominee<\/a> asked in surprise. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe watch [Tipping Point] every night, so I knew she would smash it if she went on,\u201d smiled Ruby. \u201cSo I said, that\u2019s it, you\u2019re going on. She didn\u2019t really say anything, so I signed her up.\u201d <\/p>\n

The mum and nurse from Geelong, who has five kids ranging from 11 to 23 years old, confirmed daughter Ruby did sign her up for the hit game show. <\/p>\n

Making into the final round, Ruby had some advice: \u201cI think she should go for the jackpot, and definitely Drop Zone 4\u201d. <\/p>\n

Todd was impressed. But was mum Bec wise to follow her daughter\u2019s advice? <\/p>\n

Three silver counters stood in the way of the family and a whopping $20,000. If Bec were to win, she would take the whole family to the UK. <\/p>\n

Bec and \u201cnervous\u201d daughter Ruby held their breath as the jackpot counter peered over the edge.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is for 20k!\u201d Todd reminded them of the stakes. <\/p>\n

Catch the heart-racing moment here: <\/p>\n

And in an incredible moment, the jackpot counter tipped over the edge. <\/p>\n

\u201cThis is all your doing!\u201d Todd celebrated after inviting Ruby on stage. <\/p>\n

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Mum Bec had daughter Ruby to thank.\u00a0Nine<\/p>\n

The family were walking away with $20,000 and Todd agreed young Ruby deserved a little credit for her work. <\/p>\n

\u201cYou need to give her something a little special as well,\u201d he smiled at mum. <\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t the first time a contestant has taken Todd by surprise. Catch some of his best TV moments below: <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bec, mum-of-five from Geelong, had no idea she would be competing on Tipping Point Australia, let alone playing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":852621,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[64,63,134],"class_list":["post-852620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852620","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=852620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/852621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=852620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=852620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=852620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}