As Pat Sajak’s Wheel of Fortune retirement will get nearer, it’s onerous to think about him and Vanna White not being on the present collectively. The duo have been the faces of the long-running recreation present since 1981, which is certainly a very long time. It looks like they’re tremendous shut too after spending a great chunk of their lives collectively. Nevertheless, don’t get the flawed concept about them as a result of pleasant reminder, they’re simply buddies and colleagues. If you happen to did assume they had been married at one level, you aren’t the one one although, as a result of Kelly Ripa thought that for some time.
The longtime letter-turner appeared on Stay! with Kelly and Mark to debate her time on the sequence and Sajak’s upcoming retirement, which is able to occur after this present season. Since they’ve been working collectively for therefore lengthy, Ripa really thought at one level that they had been married. After White introduced up the Stay! hosts being married, Kelly Ripa confessed how a cocktail party made her notice that the Wheel hosts weren’t really collectively (through TV Insider):
Kelly Ripa: For years, I imply, I feel I communicate for lots of people, I believed you and Pat had been married. Think about my shock when Pat got here to our home for dinner one evening…
Mark Consuelos: And also you weren’t there.
Ripa: I used to be like, ‘Oh my god! Pat and Vanna will need to have gotten divorced!
It’s hilarious to know that Kelly Ripa genuinely thought the Wheel co-hosts had been married after which acquired divorced. I might have beloved to see her response when she came upon that Pat Sajak and Vanna White had been, the truth is, by no means married. It simply exhibits how shut the 2 of them are and that their chemistry is plain. Now Ripa is simply laughing on the reality she thought that, and he or she is keen to confess it. She seemingly isn’t the one one who thought the Wheel hosts had been married, or a minimum of courting, however she might be the one one who realized they weren’t by means of Sajak exhibiting as much as dinner with out White at his aspect.
After Sajak introduced his retirement, White revealed she considered leaving Wheel of Fortune. She didn’t know the way the present or herself would be capable to go on with out him. Nevertheless, she realized she wasn’t fairly able to retire, which is why she went by robust negotiations to get a brand new and honest contract. She lastly landed a brand new contract, which means she is sticking round for a minimum of one other few seasons.
When White finally leaves, each time that could be, followers have already got somebody in thoughts who they need to exchange her, and it could be retaining it within the Sajak household. Sajak’s daughter, Maggie, has expertise turning letters from filling in for White on a few events. She’s additionally the present’s social media correspondent. White additionally gave her ideas on Maggie changing her, noting that she’s “a great alternative.” So that you by no means know what may occur.
Kelly Ripa’s former Stay! co-host, Ryan Seacrest is about to switch Sajak after his retirement, however it is going to be onerous to match the identical vitality Sajak had with White. The bond the 2 of them have is fairly particular, and whereas they are not really married, they’re shut. Followers can proceed to see Sajak host Wheel of Fortune on the 2023 TV schedule weekdays on NBC and going by a minimum of early summer time 2024.
