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    Sajak: Vanna and I drank between 'Wheel' tapings

    Associated Press – Thu, Jan 26, 2012

    NEW YORK (AP) — The "Wheel of Fortune" wasn't the only thing spinning for Pat Sajak and Vanna White back in the day.

    Sajak said in an interview on ESPN2 this week that the long-time game show team would occasionally walk over to a restaurant for "two or three or six" margaritas during a break in taping early "Wheel of Fortune" shows in California. Sajak has hosted the show since 1981; White joined him a year later.

    Sajak recalled the margarita stops after answering "yes" to a question about whether he had ever hosted the show "a little bit drunk."

    Although he joked that he had "trouble recognizing the alphabet" for shows taped after the drinks, no one ever said anything to them.

    Now that he's older, Sajak said he couldn't do that anymore.

     
     
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    177 comments

    • j m
      j m  •  Bloomfield, Connecticut  •  27 days ago
      shame on them...drinking and getting behind the wheel :p
    • Victoria Two
      Victoria Two  •  27 days ago
      It is okay. Your audience drinks.
    • Happy
      Happy  •  27 days ago
      If this is the worst piece of gossip they have on Vanna I give her props for living a clean life.
    • WTF
      WTF  •  27 days ago
      So what, everyone drank back then. I've only been in a professional job since about 1990 & I remember the execs always having a couple of drinks at lunch, even being EXPECTED to have a couple of drinks with their clients. It's the way the world worked at the time.
    • The Not-So-Blind Watchmaker
      The Not-So-Blind Watchmak ...  •  Cape Girardeau, Missouri  •  27 days ago
      Of courshe you can vuy a bowel, sir (hic!). Vanna, yur going tha wrong way, tha (hic!) lettards are over theair! (Vanna falls down.)
    • 1540
      1540  •  27 days ago
      I'm sure Vanna appreciates you telling this to the world.
    • herbie montalbano
      herbie montalbano  •  Richardson, Texas  •  27 days ago
      why not...seem simple enough job to do...he is not a cab driver
    • DonnaG
      DonnaG  •  27 days ago
      Who picked up the bar tab?
    • thomas
      thomas  •  Irvine, California  •  27 days ago
      #$%$ i miss the 80's...
    • Jim
      Jim  •  Dallas, Texas  •  27 days ago
      I saw this interview. He said it was back in the days when the contestants used to "shop" for prizes with thier winnings. It would take them a couple hours to change the set after each show thus the free time to have "a couple or six" as he said it. Ahhhhh, the early 80's were great for unbridled drinking.
    • Theodore
      Theodore  •  Berea, Ohio  •  27 days ago
      I want to know how she stays so skinny after drinking?
    • steve w
      steve w  •  Los Angeles, California  •  27 days ago
      probably made the show more tolerable
    • Michael
      Michael  •  Muncie, Indiana  •  27 days ago
      This is no big scandel. Everyone wants to know if Pat and Vanna were doing anything more than drinking???????
    • Howard Lewis
      Howard Lewis  •  Independence, Missouri  •  27 days ago
      im drunk now so what??
    • Me
      Me  •  27 days ago
      That's funny, I was drinking between tapings of their show too, i'm pretty sure!
    • Margaret G
      Margaret G  •  Columbia, South Carolina  •  27 days ago
      No surprise there...
    • NessaTex
      NessaTex  •  Beaumont, Texas  •  27 days ago
      Why is this news? Please...PLEASE...stop the stupid!
    • OncleWillie
      OncleWillie  •  27 days ago
      How is this news? Who cares if they go have a toddy or two or four?
    • Robert
      Robert  •  27 days ago
      Vanna's doing a pretty good job filling in for Susan Stafford; I think the show should hire her permanently.
    • John S
      John S  •  27 days ago
      This is news? I heard that one time Vanna posed nude for Playboy. That's not news, either. I have that issue and she still looks good. My point is, who really cares?
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