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Pat Sajak Leaving Wheel of Fortune? Host Says the 'End Is Near'

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If this is true then congrats to life after Wheel and also the rumors on who takes Pat Sajak's spot will be at play.

The TV icon is currently celebrating his 40th season of peddling vowels, and in a new interview with ET, he strongly suggests that those days could be numbered.

“Years go by fast,” Sajak says. “We’re getting near the end. It’s been a long [time]. We’re not gonna do this for another 40 years. The end is near. … It’s an honor to have been in people’s living rooms for that long.”

Sajak acknowledges, “In most television shows by this time, you would have said, ‘That’s probably enough,’ but this show will not die.'”
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Sajak's eventual retirement was discussed here when they were searching for a new Jeopardy host following Alex Trebek's passing.
Pat Sajak will be 76 years old next month, and has been hosting Wheel of Fortune for 41 years at this point. Vanna White is 65, though through the wonders of makeup, plastic surgery, hair dye and wigs, she still looks quite good.

Bob Barker was replaced on The Price is Right. Trebek was replaced on Jeopardy. Wheel of Fortune will go on after the departures of Pat and Vanna, as long as there's an audience, acceptable ratings and ad dollars to support it.
 
Mikey Radio said:
Bob Barker was replaced on The Price is Right. Trebek was replaced on Jeopardy. Wheel of Fortune will go on after the departures of Pat and Vanna, as long as there's an audience, acceptable ratings and ad dollars to support it.
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All of the above were replacements themselves. Barker replaced Bill Cullen. Trebek replaced Art Fleming. Pat and Vanna replaced Chuck Woolery and Susan Stafford. None of those shows are any worse for the wear, nor are their successes directly tied to a particular host. In all of the above cases, the game is the real star; the host(s) just add value.
 
KeithE4 said:
All of the above were replacements themselves. Barker replaced Bill Cullen. Trebek replaced Art Fleming. Pat and Vanna replaced Chuck Woolery and Susan Stafford. None of those shows are any worse for the wear, nor are their successes directly tied to a particular host. In all of the above cases, the game is the real star; the host(s) just add value.
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When the current price is right debuted in 1972. It was called The new price is right
 
gr8oldies said:
Maybe Sajak can run for MAGA office. Why not, everybody else is. He's on the board at Hillsdale College, which wants to privatize public schools. 'Wheel of Fortune' host Pat Sajak ripped on social media for photo with Marjorie Taylor Greene
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Woah but not shocking given that Sony Pictures had to previously respond to celebrities under their contract running for office or appear with questionable people like in Dr. Oz case over his association with Trump given his announcement about leaving his talk show because he running for office. But then again in Sajak's case who knows how Sony Pictures would respond.
 
KeithE4 said:
All of the above were replacements themselves. Barker replaced Bill Cullen. Trebek replaced Art Fleming. Pat and Vanna replaced Chuck Woolery and Susan Stafford. None of those shows are any worse for the wear, nor are their successes directly tied to a particular host. In all of the above cases, the game is the real star; the host(s) just add value.
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Yes Family Feud is another one that show had multiple hosts over the past 25 years from Louie Anderson, Richard Karn, John O'Hurley prior to Steve Harvey taking that spot.
 
KeithE4 said:
All of the above were replacements themselves. Barker replaced Bill Cullen. Trebek replaced Art Fleming. Pat and Vanna replaced Chuck Woolery and Susan Stafford. None of those shows are any worse for the wear, nor are their successes directly tied to a particular host. In all of the above cases, the game is the real star; the host(s) just add value.
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And Wink Martindale (19 years on from the original 50s NBC TTD that was involved in the infamous quiz show scandals) replaced Barry, Rayburn, Wendell, Jackson and Elliot (all those on the 50s one [daytime and primetime]), first on CBS for a 1978 daily flash-in-the-pan, and then in syndie from 1978-85 (Jim Caldwell succeeded him for one more go in 1985-86, and Patrick Wayne had another flash-in-the-pan in 1990 [an infamous one for the rapping Dragon and Dragonslayer, BTW, among other things]).

And to your point about the game being the real star of the production, I asked Wink Martindale about that once on email, about why he was not styled as the star of TTD; he said to me (IIRC) that he was simply the host on the same grounds that Alex Trebek gave much later for being just the host of J!, and not the star of it (Drew Carey is simply the host of TPIR on those same grounds as well): that the game and the players are what people tune in for/come to see (with such notables as Thom McKee on TTD, and Ken Jennings on J! [Jennings of course being the host of the normal, everyday J!, and Mayim Bialik being on the primetime show]).
 
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