One of the strangest stories this week involved The History Channel’s hit series “Pawn Stars” about the Gold and Silver Pawn Shop in Las Vegas, Nevada. One of this week’s new episodes, “First Lady of Pawn,” was advertised for last night with this description by Zap2It and anyone using their channel guide services:
WWE Hall of Famer, Tammy ‘Sunny’ Sytch, brings in her Hall of Fame ring; Corey checks out a 1927 Essex Sedan rat rod; an 1891 $1 silver certificate.
You can still see that description in the listing on LocateTV. Other guide providers, like TV Guide, just referred to it generically as just a WWE Hall of Fame ring being brought into the shop. Sytch, when asked on Twitter, angrily denied she’d be on the show, including after a fan showed a picture of the on-screen guide from his cable/satellite box:
No. No idea where they got that from. It's false advertising https://t.co/5AOqNjQLwO
— Tamara Sytch (@WWEHOFerSunny) February 22, 2016
@GoldSilverPawn are u sure @WWEHOFerSunny is on this episode? pic.twitter.com/ShViOjPY6n
— THEOfficialCDT (@TheRealCDT1) February 22, 2016
No, I'm not. I've never even been to that shit hole. False advertising https://t.co/rGsKaVRaRG
— Tamara Sytch (@WWEHOFerSunny) February 22, 2016
Omg people! I'm not gonna be on pawn stars! I've never even been to that shit hole !! @pawnstars
— Tamara Sytch (@WWEHOFerSunny) February 22, 2016
Well I guess I have more intelligence than they do because I'm not on their show but they are advertising that I am https://t.co/pi9ASbNDt0
— Tamara Sytch (@WWEHOFerSunny) February 22, 2016
She even went off on wrestling website writers who cited the guide listing (perhaps unfairly, since it being so wrong is pretty unusual):
I'm not gonna be on the show!!! Never was! Why are you carrying a straight out lie!?? https://t.co/FpYhrxRTaP
— Tamara Sytch (@WWEHOFerSunny) February 22, 2016
Given her history as of late (including the storyline where her trying to sell the ring turned into her doing porn when she shot the video close to a year before she “put the ring up for sale”), not everyone believed her, to say the least. Well, the segment aired last night, and it turns out she was telling the truth:
It was some third party selling Paul Bearer’s ring. What exactly the miscommunication was, nobody knows as of yet. Being that it was only on one guide data provider’s listing, it makes you wonder if someone at Zap2It just guessed for some reason stemming from the publicity stunt Sytch pulled about selling the ring to promote her pornographic videos.