Posted on 06/27/2023 1:08:37 PM PDT by TBP
Ryan Seacrest has yet another job to take on.
Seacrest has been named the new host of “Wheel of Fortune” following Pat Sajak’s retirement, The Post has confirmed.
Along with being the new host, Seacrest, 48, will also serve as a consulting producer on the show, according to a statement from Sony on Tuesday.
“I’m truly humbled to be stepping into the footsteps of the legendary Pat Sajak,” Seacrest said in a statement. “I can say, along with the rest of America, that it’s been a privilege and pure joy to watch Pat and Vanna on our television screens for an unprecedented 40 years, making us smile every night and feel right at home with them.
“Pat, I love the way you’ve always celebrated the contestants and made viewers at home feel at ease,” he added. “I look forward to learning everything I can from you during this transition.”
Seacrest added that one of his first jobs was hosting a game show called “Click” for Merv Griffin about 25 years ago, so this opportunity is “truly a full circle moment for me.”
Sajak, 76, said two weeks ago that he would be retiring after 41 years and that the next season of the beloved game show will be his last.
Sajak has hosted “Wheel” since 1981, while Vanna White, 66, joined the show a year later as the iconic letter-turner.
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I like Mayim a lot. An actual physicist who played the physicist girlfriend on the Big Bang Theory, really funny show.
Some of the Chuck Woolery episodes are uploaded to YouTube...with Charlie O’Donnell announcing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7skOZEFgCw
Oh yeah - that’s right. He was a co-host on Regis Philbin’s old morning show.
Yes, I noticed that. Strange.
Mayim Bialik is a neuroscientist, not a physicist. Same for the character she played.
Sajak replaced Adrian Cronauer (Good Morning Vietnam) on Armed Services Radio.
Mayim sucks. She always has a pause before telling the contestant whether they were correct or not. There’s no flow when she hosts.
People keep saying that. I have not heard it.
She’s enthusiastic and does a wonderful job. I like her.
A really great announcer.
I think I read that Bill Cullen had a club foot or something like that. He had been a radio DJ before going to TV.
Geesh that guy just smacks of phoniness...
Looks like they forgot about Super Dave Osborne.
Ryan Seacreast would not wear socks on the Kelly Ripa show. It was weird. He is worth $450 million and cannot buy some socks.
BTW he has women (beards) around him. Merv Griffith hired him for a game show 25 years ago. Merv liked em young.
They need to replace the very old looking Vanna White with someone younger and prettier.
Someone that looks like Rachel Riley from Britain.
Look to the right side for many more episodes of this show. Funny show.
Rachel Riley’s | 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPjWdRBld2g
I especially notice it on Daily Doubles. It’s like she’s verifying that the answer is correct on a screen before replying. It’s an awkward pause. While Trebek never played, he was very smart & could have done well as a contestant.
I watch every night, and I have literally never heard it.
His sidekick did news on a local Nashville station
I believe she’s has a neuroscience PhD.
And the guy on Password married to Betty White. Bill Loudon?
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