The tv world is about to lose a legend.
On Monday, Pat Sajak introduced he’ll retire after Wheel of Fortune’s upcoming forty first season, which begins capturing in September.
“Properly, the time has come. I’ve determined that our forty first season, which begins in September, can be my final,” the long-lasting host wrote on Twitter.
“It’s been an exquisite experience, and I’ll have extra to say within the coming months. Many because of you all. (If nothing else, it’ll preserve the clickbait websites busy!)”
Sajak hinted that it wouldn’t be internet hosting Wheel of Fortune ceaselessly in an interview with Leisure Tonight final 12 months.
“We’re getting close to the top,” the 76-year outdated informed the outlet on the time. “We’re not gonna do that for one more 40 years. The tip is close to.”
Sajak debuted as Wheel of Fortune host in 1981.
He had beforehand labored as a weatherman for KNBC-TV in Los Angeles.
In an announcement to Folks Journal and different superstar gossip web sites, Suzanne Prete, the EVP of Sport Reveals at Sony Footage Tv, additionally confirmed Sajak’s upcoming retirement.
Nevertheless, she famous that he would function a marketing consultant on this system for the following three years.
“Because the host of Wheel of Fortune, Pat has entertained tens of millions of viewers throughout America for 40 wonderful years,” Prete stated. “We’re extremely grateful and proud to have had Pat as our host for all these years and we look ahead to celebrating his excellent profession all through the upcoming season. Pat has agreed to proceed as a marketing consultant on the present for 3 years following his final 12 months internet hosting, so we’re thrilled to have him remaining near the Wheel of Fortune household!”
Sajak has been joined on Wheel of Fortune by co-host and letter-turner Vanna White for all of his time on the present besides one season.
“We’re a workforce,” White informed ET in 2022 of Sajak probably strolling away. “That’s miserable. I don’t even wish to give it some thought.”
Sajak broke the Guinness World File for longest-running recreation present host in 2019 … surpassing Bob Barker, who hosted The Worth Is Proper from 1972 to 2007.
“It’s an honor to have been in folks’s residing rooms for that lengthy,” Sajak additionally informed ET.
No substitute has been named but for Sajak.
From what we will collect, White has no plans to observe her good pal out the door.
“Once I began internet hosting Wheel (with Susan Stafford) on this date 40 years in the past, the highest 10 TV reveals included Dallas, Three’s Firm, The Jeffersons and The Dukes of Hazzard,” Sajak tweeted in December 2021.
“Ronald Reagan was in his 1st 12 months as president. No 1 track: Olivia Newton-John’s ‘Bodily.’”
What a run! We want Pat Sajak all one of the best.