She may have won on Kelly Ripa’s cable TV show, “Homemade Millionaire,” but Karen McCombs is not a millionaire… yet, reports lohud.com.
What Ripa’s show — in which regular folks presented their inventions to a panel of experts and competed for a pitch spot on HSN — gave to McCombs was not a million dollars, but one-time access to the HSN audience. When she appeared on HSN on Dec. 27, 2010, the nation saw McCombs, a self-described “New City mom,†showing how her melamine plates come with interchangeable rings that can be swapped for different occasions.
“A year of ups and downs†later, McCombs is still explaining and still working to expand the Switch-a-Dish brand.
“It was a once-in-a-lifetime experience of filming a TV show in my house,†she says. “It was the most stressful thing I probably ever did. It was worse than giving birth to twins! But the good spin is that it was a fascinating journey, to have my idea validated by experts in this business.â€