 On January 9, 2012, host Jim McKrell was interviewed on the Shokus Radio program "Stu's Show" and seemed to contradict this, saying that the entire run of "Celebrity Sweepstakes" was destroyed due to the issues of dual ownership between Sugarman and Ralph Andrews.On July 30, 2019, the studio master of the first episode of the syndicated version from November 1974 appeared on Facebook.