Pat Sajak Breaks Silence On Ryan Seacrest Replacing Him As The New Host Of ‘Wheel Of Fortune’

“I’m looking forward to my last season starting this fall, and past handing implicit the car keys to Ryan Seacrest successful September of 2024,” Pat’s tweet, which was posted connected June 28, read. It received a batch of responses from fans who wished him good and called him “the best.” 

Pat’s connection comes 1 time aft it was publically announced that Ryan would beryllium stepping up arsenic the caller big of Wheel of Fortune. “I’m genuinely humbled to beryllium stepping into the footsteps of the legendary Pat Sajak,” Ryan said successful a connection released by Sony Pictures Television, which helium besides shared connected Twitter. “I tin say, on with the remainder of America, that it’s been a privilege and axenic joyousness to ticker Pat and Vanna [White] connected our tv screens for an unprecedented 40 years, making america grin each nighttime and consciousness close astatine location with them.”

“Pat, I emotion the mode you’ve ever celebrated the contestants and made viewers astatine location consciousness astatine ease,” helium added. “I look guardant to learning everything I tin from you during this transition.”

Ryan ended his connection by mentioning however helium started disconnected his palmy vocation connected another crippled show 25 years ago. “Many radical astir apt don’t cognize this but 1 of my archetypal jobs was hosting a small crippled amusement called Click for Merv Griffin 25 years agone truthful this is genuinely a afloat ellipse infinitesimal for maine and I’m grateful to Sony for the opportunity,” helium said. “I can’t hold to proceed the contented of spinning the instrumentality and moving alongside the great Vanna White.“