Vanna White missing "Wheel of Fortune" for the first time in 30 years - this is why
The television game will have someone else who turns the letters while Vanna White was out.
Pat Sajak Maybe about to go out, but it's hard to imagine Wheel of Fortune without Vanna White Turn the letters. The old 66 -year -old model has been a pillar of the series since 1982, and you will have to return far in the archives to find episodes of the last four decades without it. In fact, when White is missing five episodes to come, it will be the first time in 30 years, the series will continue in its absence. Read the rest to know why she will be Mia and who will replace her while she left.
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Vanna White will miss five episodes of Wheel of Fortune this autumn.
According to several reports, White will be absent Since Wheel of Fortune During the annual "teacher week" of the show, which means that it will miss a total of five episodes. As Puck reported it for the first time, the host of the game show contracted a cochem at the end of July and could not film. AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB
But although the work is sick and missing is something that we all have to do from time to time, White has impeccable attendance. TV Note that her free time to come will be the first episodes she jumped in 30 years.
According to US Weekly , The last of White missed episodes was in 1991, first when she took two weeks off for her honeymoon with now-Ex-Mari George Santo Pietro , then when she fell ill. Occasionally, Tricia Gist intervened temporarily for her.
While Sony did not comment on the missing white shooting, a Wheel of Fortune Insider told TV Line that the program was unable to move the episodes to host White's disease.
"The teachers had already arrived in Los Angeles to record the episodes and, with the school year that begins, it was not possible to reprogram that day," said the source.
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It will be replaced by Bridgette Donald-Blue.
But Wheel of Fortune Ensures that there is someone worthy to take the place of White for the five episodes she left. As the initiate of the show said to TVLine, "in accordance with the theme of the" teacher week "... Bridgette Donald-Blue Graciously agreed to fill for Vanna for these five episodes. ""
If you do not recognize the name, it is because Donald -Blue is not a personality of established television, but a real teacher at the primary school Coliseum Street in Los Angeles - and famous. She was recently appointed 2023 California teacher of the year .
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White's future in the show is not yet clear.
White fans can stay easily knowing that her absence of season 41 will be brief and that they will be in good hands while she left. But the long -term future of the host on the show remains uncertain.
After Sajak announced that he would retire at the end of next season, White was locked up Contractual registrations , according to a Puck report. According to the point of sale, she hired the high -level lawyer Bryan Freedman In the hope of obtaining an increase, which she has not obtained for 18 years.
Puck notes that because letters no longer need to be turned manually, it is possible that Wheel of Fortune Would completely get rid of the role of White, allowing him to go alongside the Sajak. But a source close to the show told TVline there "is not planned to Eliminate the role of Vanna "And says:" Sony is in active discussion to renew the Vanna agreement beyond her current contract. ""
Ryan Seacrest will intervene as host of season 42.
Sajak, however, leaves for some. In a declaration printed by The Hollywood Reporter , The host of the last four decades said: "Well, the time has come. I decided that our 41st season, which begins in September say in the coming months. A big thank you to all. (If nothing Another, this will occupy click sites!) "
June 27 Ryan Seacrest was announced as the new host of Wheel of Fortune For season 42, which will start to film and broadcast in 2024.
"I am really humiliated to enter into the footsteps of the legendary Pat Sajak," said Seacrest in a press release published by the New York Post . "I can say, with the rest of America, that it was a privilege and a pure joy to watch Pat and Vanna on our television screens for unprecedented 40 years, making us smile every night and feel at home with them."