Overview

• The Stamford, Connecticut, contestant won $1,035,155 on the Sept. 30 episode, the largest single-episode total in the show’s 49-year run.
• She landed the $1 million wedge during gameplay and solved the Bonus Round puzzle “PACK OF COYOTES” in the Living Things category.
• Derevjanik had amassed $35,155 and trips to Montana and Tokyo before the final envelope reveal.
• Host Ryan Seacrest celebrated the outcome as his first million-dollar winner since taking over in 2024, with Vanna White congratulating on-air.
• She is the fourth million-dollar Bonus Round winner, following Michelle Lowenstein (2008), Autumn Erhard (2013), and Sarah Manchester (2014), and the episode streams Oct. 1 on Peacock, Hulu, and Disney+.