SAJAK & VANNA: THE NAKED TRUTH
Wheel host goes over edge again!
GAME show host Pat Sajak left Wheel of Fortune fans cringing and outraged after he brazenly went too far while grilling sexy co-star Vanna White about being naked.
The shocking exchange came on the April 13 episode where one of the contestants, Ashley Fabian, is a professional opera singer.
Out of the blue, the 75-yearold host launched into an embarrassing questioning of his blonde, 65-year-old co-star.
“Are you an opera buff at all?” Pat asked Vanna, who replied: “Yes. I’m not a buff, but I like opera.”
That’s when Pat went over the top, asking: “Have you ever watched opera in the buff? I’m just curious.” While Vanna answered “no” and tried to laugh it off, his outrageous question triggered a furious social media firestorm.
“I feel like I just witnessed a #metoo moment on @WheelofFortune?” tweeted a viewer.
A second said: “@WheelofFortune someone please replace this man. @patsajak is absolutely inappropriate asking [Vanna] if she’s watched opera naked?
“Are you serious? Gross.” Yet another wrote: “Dude is trying to keep the thrill alive for this job any way he can. I’m amazed he hasn’t resorted to torturing contestants.”
While Pat began hosting Wheel in 1981, with Vanna joining the following year, he lately sparked backlash with bizarre comments, even attacking contestants.
Weeks earlier he seemed to taunt Chris Davidson, who lost out on a trip to Puerto Rico with a barely wrong answer.
Chris was supposed to solve the word puzzle by saying “frozen concoction,” but instead said “a frozen concoction” throwing in the article “a.”
Pat called Chris’ answer wrong and seemed to rub it in, saying: “He threw in the ‘a’ in front of it, and we can’t accept it. It’s just one of the rules, and we gotta go by ’em.”