WASHINGTON: The longest-serving TV recreation present host in historical past signed off on Friday (Jun 7) after presiding over US primetime hit Wheel of Fortune for 41 seasons.
Pat Sajak has been a fixture in American properties since 1981, internet hosting greater than 8,000 editions of a present that has develop into a part of early evenings for tens of millions of households.
“Properly, the time has come to say goodbye,” he advised viewers in a clip from the pre-recorded ultimate present.
“It has been an unbelievable privilege to be invited into tens of millions of properties night time after night time, yr after yr, decade after decade.”
He described the half-hour present as “a secure place for household enjoyable. No social points, no politics, nothing embarrassing I hope – only a recreation.”
“Thanks for permitting me into your lives.”
Sajak, 77, was famend for his low-key, unflappable model, asking contestants to decide on a consonant or purchase a vowel within the word-guessing recreation.
Along with his go well with and even tan, he chatted with friends and bantered with co-host Vanna White, who joined the present in 1982 only a yr after Sajak.
