Right here’s one puzzle we by no means needed to resolve: How for much longer will Pat Sajak host Wheel of Fortune?
The TV icon is at the moment celebrating his fortieth season of peddling vowels, and in a brand new interview with ET, he strongly means that these days might be numbered.
“Years go by quick,” Sajak says. “We’re getting close to the top. It’s been an extended [time]. We’re not gonna do that for an additional 40 years. The top is close to. … It’s an honor to have been in folks’s dwelling rooms for that lengthy.”
Sajak acknowledges, “In most tv exhibits by this time, you’d have mentioned, ‘That’s in all probability sufficient,’ however this present is not going to die.’”
Actually, “it seems I’ll go earlier than the present,” he jokes.
Wheel this week, for its fortieth anniversary, unveiled a brand new LED-screen puzzleboard, in addition to an “XL Week” of exhibits that put extra prize cash at stake than ever earlier than.
New govt producer Bellamie Blackstone mentioned in an announcement, “I’m trying ahead to celebrating all the methods this present has turn out to be a staple in so many dwelling rooms, but in addition to assist it develop so we see its fiftieth season and past. We have now a stupendous new puzzleboard. We’re making an attempt to present away probably the most cash ever supplied on the syndicated model of the present. However, greater than something, I would like our viewers to proceed to get pleasure from this basic sport whereas including a couple of new and fascinating twists. We’re all trying ahead to this being our greatest season ever!”
Are you able to think about a world the place Sajak isn’t internet hosting Wheel? Drop a remark together with your ideas on his new interview under.