Proper now, it’s enterprise as normal on Wheel of Fortune, however followers can begin counting down the times that they’ll see Pat Sajak as the game show’s host — not that you just’d know that by the Season 41 premiere.
Sajak (who has hosted the nighttime model of Wheel because it debuted in 1983) and Vanna White walked out like normal to kick off the episode on Monday, September 11. “One other 12 months,” Sajak remarked. “Sure, 41,” White agreed. “However who’s counting?” Sajak then requested. (Properly, everybody, on condition that it’s his final as its host.) That was all that was mentioned earlier than the main focus turned to the gameplay, with Sajak jokingly calling the contestants the season’s first three “victims” and attending to the puzzles.
Sajak additionally had enjoyable with the gamers when, for the prize puzzle with the class Individual, all three — Kevin, Valerie, and Manjula — began the spherical off by guessing incorrect letters. “I’d prefer to level out we’re utilizing a normal English alphabet,” he quipped, getting laughs.
Then, after he confirmed the participant on the finish the place the $1 million wedge was on the wheel, he supplied some hope that somebody may win that prize this season. “We’re simply getting began this 12 months, perhaps we’ll do it earlier than the season’s out,” he mentioned.
On the finish of the episode, Sajak remarked how “odd” it was he and White didn’t see one another at everywhere in the summer season since each had been touring — “And I missed you,” she instructed him — earlier than joking about driving by her home.
It was in June that Sajak introduced that Season 41 might be his final as Wheel of Fortune host. (The next day, it was reported Ryan Seacrest was in talks to replace him, and he turned the new host officially a pair weeks later.) “Properly, the time has come. I’ve determined that our forty first season, which begins in September, might be my final,” Sajak mentioned in an announcement to Bloomberg News on the time (three days after the tip of Season 40). “It’s been a beautiful trip, and I’ll have extra to say within the coming months. Many because of you all. (If nothing else, it’ll preserve the clickbait websites busy!)”
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