Sport present veteran Chuck Woolery who hosted the unique variations of Wheel Of Fortune and Love Connection, died Nov. 23. He was 83.
Woolery’s passing was introduced on X by his longtime good friend and Blunt Forth Fact podcast co-host Mark Younger.
“It’s with a damaged coronary heart that I let you know that my expensive brother @chuckwoolery has simply handed away,” he wrote. “Life won’t be the identical with out him.”
Younger instructed TMZ that Woolery died at his Texas residence after experiencing bother respiration.
Woolery, who began his profession as a singer, was tapped to host Wheel Of Fortune when the present first launched in 1975. After internet hosting this system for six years, he was changed by Pat Sajak.
Love Connection additionally launched in 1983 with Woolery as its first host, a job he held for 11 years. Different recreation reveals he has hosted/co-hosted by way of the years embrace Scrabble (1984–1990 and its short-lived 1993 revival), House & Household (1996–1998), The Relationship Sport (1997–1999), Greed (1999–2000), and Lingo (2002–2007). He additionally hosted his personal speak present, The Chuck Woolery Present, which had a short run in 1991.
In 2012, Woolery started internet hosting a nationally syndicated radio present, Save Us Chuck Woolery. Two years later, it morphed right into a podcast which was retitled Blunt Power Fact.
Recognized for his conservative views, Woolery discovered himself in a number of controversies over the previous decade involving such topics as Covid and antisemitism.
