Pat Sajak’s final run on Wheel of Fortune is quickly coming to a close. After more than four decades as host of the iconic game show, Sajak’s final episode will air on Friday, June 7. His farewell episode, which taped last Friday, will serve as Wheel‘s Season 41 finale.
The longtime Wheel of Fortune host announced on Twitter Monday that the syndicated staple’s upcoming season will be his last as host. “Well, the time has come. I’ve decided that our 41st season, which begins in September, will be my last. It’s been a wonderful ride, and I’ll have more to say in the coming months. Many thanks to you all,” the tweet said.
The TV icon is currently celebrating his 40th season of peddling vowels, and in a new interview with Entertainment Tonight, he strongly suggests that those days could be numbered. “Years go by fast,” Sajak says. “We’re getting near the end. It’s been a long [time]. We’re not gonna do this for another 40 years. The end is near. … It’s an honor to have been in people’s living rooms for that long.” Sajak acknowledges: “In most television shows by this time, you would have said, ‘That’s probably enough,’ but this show will not die.”
With Jeopardy in a host vacuum following the botched search for a successor to the beloved Alex Trebek, Sony Pictures Television has locked in the hosts of its other hugely popular — and profitable — syndicated game show, Wheel of Fortune. Pat Sajak and Vanna White have agreed to continue hosting the show through the 2023-24 season. As part of the deal, Sajak has added consulting producer to his responsibilities.
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“I remember thinking, not in a morbid way, ‘I think this must be death. This must be what death is like,'” Sajak recalled during an interview with Good Morning America of the health scare that forced him to miss a taping of the game show.
Wheel of Fortune host Pat Sajak is recovering following emergency surgery, the show said via its Twitter account. “Our taping on Thursday was canceled because host Pat Sajak underwent successful emergency surgery to correct a blocked intestine,” the tweet read. Per the tweet, taping for the show resumed on Friday as scheduled with Vanna White hosting.
HILLSDALE, Mich. (AP) — Pat Sajak will take a “C” for Chairman. Hillsdale College in Michigan says the “Wheel of Fortune” host will lead the governing board at the small liberal […]
The longtime hosts of syndication juggernauts Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy are sticking around. Pat Sajak, Vanna White and Alex Trebek have all renewed their contracts through the 2019-20 season.
Alex Trebek, the man with one of the sweetest deals in TV, is not throwing in the towel just yet. Despite hints in recent years that he was ready to retire, the 74-year-old Jeopardy host just signed on to stay through at least the 2017-18 season — as have Wheel of Fortune‘s Pat Sajak and Vanna White.
