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Ryan Seacrest will now be asking “Wheel of Fortune” contestants in the event that they’d like to purchase a vowel.
Pat Sajak has handed over hosting duties of the long-running sport present to Seacrest, who will seem in new episodes within the fall.
Sajak signed off as host after greater than 40 years on June 7 and informed Seacrest what he’s going to like concerning the job.
“I believe what you’re going to take pleasure in most is assembly the gamers and attending to know the viewers at dwelling,” Sajak informed Seacrest. “Individuals love this present. They go and see us day by day and spend a half hour with us and watch with the entire household.”
He continued: “You’re by no means going to discover a higher job, and also you’re by no means going to discover a higher co-host,” he stated of his present co-host Vanna White.
White will remain on the present for 2 extra years.
“It’s been an unimaginable privilege to be invited into thousands and thousands of properties evening after evening, yr after yr, decade after decade, and I’ve at all times felt that the privilege got here with a accountability to maintain this each day half-hour a secure place for household, enjoyable, no social points, no politics, nothing embarrassing I hope, only a sport,” Sajak stated in his goodbye.