Vanna White Reacts to Cohost Pat Sajak’s ‘Wheel of Fortune’ Retirement: ‘Cheers to You’

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Supporting her friend. Vanna White reacted to Pat Sajak announcing his retirement from Wheel of Fortune after 40 years of cohosting the program with her.“When we started @WheelofFotune who could have imagined we’d still be at it 41 seasons later?” the former pageant queen, 66, wrote via Twitter on Tuesday, June 13, quoting her cohost’s original announcement tweet. “I couldn’t be happier to have shared the stage with you for all these years with one more to come.

Cheers to you, @patsajak!”Sajak, 76, shared the career update one day prior. “Well, the time has come. I’ve decided that our 41st season, which begins in September, will be my last.

It’s been a wonderful ride, and I’ll have more to say in the coming months. Many thanks to you all,” he wrote via Twitter on Monday, June 12.The Illinois native and White have formed a close bond over the years since they joined the program in 1981 and 1982, respectively. “We’ve been together for, like, 38 years and he’s like my brother,” the Vanna’s Choice businesswoman told Entertainment Tonight in 2021. “He’s funny.

I mean, we could finish each other’s sentences if we wanted to. We know each other that well.”In order to view the video, please allow Manage CookiesSajak, for his part, gushed about his dynamic with the Vanna Speaks author during a 2017 talk at the Paley Center for Media in New York City. “I can’t imagine being up there with someone else,” he told the audience at the time.Despite the Daytime Emmy winner’s kind comments, he didn’t always think White was the perfect cohost.