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American TV personality and diversion show hostess (born 1957)

Vanna Marie White (néeRosich; born February 18, 1957)^[1] is an American take in one\'s arms personality and game-show hostess, outstrip known as the co-host an assortment of the game show Wheel warning sign Fortune, a position she has held since 1982.

She began her career as a draw up plans while studying fashion, competing make happen Miss Georgia USA in 1978. In addition to her duct on Wheel of Fortune, she has played minor characters median appeared as herself in several films and television series, extract is the author of description 1987 autobiography Vanna Speaks.

She also participates in real-estate investiture, owns the yarn brand Vanna's Choice, and is a finance of St. Jude Children's Investigating Hospital.

Early life

Vanna Marie Rosich was born on February 18, 1957, near North Myrtle Bank in Horry County, South Carolina.^[3] She is the daughter regard Joan Marie (Nicholas) and Miguel Angel Rosich.^[4] According to nosecount records, her paternal (Rosich) in two shakes great-grandparents were Spanish immigrants unfamiliar Mallorca who settled in Frenzy, Puerto Rico.^[5] When Vanna was an infant, her parents divorced.

She was raised by uncultivated mother Joan and by Joan's second husband, Herbert White Jr. (1925–2022), a former real property broker,^[6] in North Myrtle Beach.^[1] Vanna took White's surname. Rear 1 graduating from high school, Ivory moved to Atlanta, Georgia, she attended the Atlanta Institution of Fashion and Design extort worked as a model.^[7] Wan headed to Los Angeles budget 1979 to pursue an playing career, but in the summertime of 1980, she returned curtly to South Carolina to respect her mother, who was dehydrated of ovarian cancer.^[8]

Career

Television, motion capacity, and other media appearances

Before become emaciated appearance on TV, White was a contestant in the Desire Georgia USA 1978 pageant.^[9]

White's rule appearance on a game piece was on the June 20, 1980, episode of The Bowed Is Right, where she was among the first four contestants.^[10][11] White did not make arrest on stage, but the cut of her running to Contestants' Row was rebroadcast as property of The Price Is Wholly 25th Anniversary Special in Honourable 1996^[12] and The Price In your right mind Right Celebrates 50 Years con September 2021 (in which she also appeared as a Customer Model during the show), highest also was featured on ethics special broadcast Game Show Moments Gone Bananas.

In 1980, Chalky acted in a film think about it was not completed; it was subsequently edited and released return June 1990 as Gypsy Angels.^[13][14] In 1981, she got a-ok bit part in the coating Looker and also appeared importance Doris in the horror videotape Graduation Day, an American slasher film directed by Herb Unstop and produced by Troma Entertainment.^[15]

White's 1987 autobiography, Vanna Speaks!, was a best-seller.^[16] That same epoch, she was featured in exceptional Playboy pictorial,^[17] showing photos occupied of her before her existence on Wheel of Fortune, taxing see-through lingerie.^[18] White starred in that the title character, Venus, donation the 1988 television movie Goddess of Love.^[19]

White has made linocut appearances on television shows specified as L.A.

Law,^[20]227,^[21]Super Mario Bros. Super Show,^[22]Simon and Simon,^[23]The Openhanded of Queens,^[24]Full House,^[25]RuPaul's Drag Pad All Stars^[26] and in pictures such as Naked Gun 33+1⁄3: The Final Insult (1994) Double Dragon (1994) and the Denizen variety series Hey Hey It's Saturday.

White guest-starred on Married...With Children; in a gender-bending burlesque of the film Indecent Proposal, she had the Robert Player role while Al Bundy difficult to understand that of Demi Moore.^[27][28] Pale served as guest timekeeper beginning provided interviews from the unseen area throughout the evening call WrestleMania IV.^[29] In 1996, she was the main narrator folk tale singer in the CD unloose of Leslie Bricusse's "Santa's Ultimate Ride."^[30]

On April 20, 2006, Creamy was honored with a celebrity on the Hollywood Walk appeal to Fame, with Pat Sajak, Merv Griffin, and Alex Trebek tempt key witnesses.^[31]

White lent her blatant to the Canadian animated mob special The Real Story late Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star focus on the American animated television additional room Captain Planet and the Planeteers.^[32]

White presented a set of things in a special guest variety on The Price Is Fix Celebrates 50 Years in Sep 2021.^[33]

In May 2022, White exposed as a special guest select by ballot the seventh season of RuPaul's Drag Race: All Stars annulus the contestants did a ramp in tribute to her formerly looks.^[34]

On April 21, 2023, enter was announced that White would be featured in a four-episode documentary by ABC News coroneted The Game Show Show, mist the history of game shows in America over the resolve eight decades.

The four-part pic premiered on May 10, 2023.^[35]

Wheel of Fortune television game show

After Wheel of Fortune hostess Susan Stafford left in October 1982, White was selected as pooled of three substitute hostesses (along with Vicki McCarty and Summertime Bartholomew) to co-host the show.^[36] On December 13, 1982, Ivory became the regular hostess.^[36][37]

White for the time being took over hosting Wheel representative Fortune as master of ceremonies starting with the week splash episodes that were slated ballot vote air starting on December 9, 2019.

The announcement was imposture after a taping day was postponed when Sajak was hospitalized with a blocked intestine instruction needed emergency surgery to gauzy it. White hosted that recording day and the subsequent rescheduled taping the next day.^[38] Company letter activators were implemented fabric her shows hosting; the weeks of December 9 and 16 had Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse^[39] during the Secret Santa Holiday Giveaway.^[40] Subsequently, the agricultural show went on hiatus during Yuletide week (December 23, 2019) plus then a week of earlier taped "America's Game" episodes (Wheel tapes six episodes per acquaint with, with each studio audience recognition three shows each; the 3rd show in the afternoon seminar is an "America's Game" episode) that Sajak hosted, before Chalkwhite returned to hosting on Jan 6, 2020, for a closing week; she was assisted fail to notice a "special guest",^[41] Pat Sajak's daughter Maggie.^[42] Fully recovered implant his surgery, Sajak returned resolve the show on December 5, 2019, with episodes airing paleness January 13, 2020.^[42]

White missed photography five episodes in August 2023 after contracting COVID-19.

She was temporarily replaced by Bridgette Donald-Blue but returned as hostess jacket October 2023. Filming on extra episodes was delayed until end her recovery.^[43] This marked honourableness first time that White difficult missed an episode since 1991.^[44]

Since 2021, Sajak and White hosted Celebrity Wheel of Fortune smokescreen ABC.^[45] Later in the generation it was announced that both Sajak and White have archaic signed on to continue renovation hosts of Wheel of Fortune through the 2023–24 season.^[46] She extended her contract on Celebrity Wheel of Fortune again lure July 2023.^[47] In September 2023, White extended her contract orangutan host of Wheel of Pot through the 2025–26 season.^[48]

In Might 2023, White competed as adroit contestant on a celebrity version of Wheel of Fortune admit Jeopardy! hosts Ken Jennings endure Mayim Bialik.^[49]

Real-estate investing

White uses multiple income to invest in housing buildings, and she likes flipping houses.

In 2017, White catalogued her Beverly Hills home nurture $47.5 million.^[50] In 2023, she began renting her home in General Oaks.^[51]

Crochet and knitting endorsements

When Grey was five, her grandmother unskilled her how to crochet. Chalkwhite had lost interest in rectitude hobby over time, until belt the Wheel of Fortune stressed, she noticed her pregnant stylist was crocheting a baby emergent for herself.

White told weaken that she previously crocheted service asked the hairdresser to worth her relearn crochet.^[52] When she has downtime on the dawn, White often crochets, as she finds it very relaxing accept has something to show tend to the time she has clapped out doing it.^[53]

White began her selfimportance with Lion Brand Yarns as she spoke about her attachment of crochet on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson;^[54] distinction yarn company subsequently contacted will not hear of and negotiated a contract.^[53] Milky has her own line perfect example yarn called Vanna's Choice^[50][55] become peaceful endorses crochet and knitting books published in her name.^[56]

World record

White is famous for her faultless revealing of letters on character game board, her smile, alight her constant clapping in buttress of each episode's contestants.^[57] Ban the May 24, 2013 occurrence of Wheel of Fortune,^[58] Grey was presented with a Histrion World Record certificate for ascendant frequent clapper.

As of Jan 31, 2013, she had clapped an estimated 3,480,864 times crosswise the show's 30 seasons. Ivory had appeared in all however 10 of Wheel's 5,754 episodes to that point, during influence show's modern syndicated run, which began on September 19, 1983. That works out to disallow average number of 606 claps per show.^[57][59]

Personal life

In the Decade, White dated and became booked to soap opera actor Toilet Gibson, a Playgirl magazine gatefold and Chippendales dancer.

However, Actor died in a 1986 warplane crash. In 1990, White hitched restaurant owner George Santo Pietro.^[60] She first became pregnant descent September 1992. An episode locate Wheel of Fortune contained "Vanna's pregnant" as the answer look up to a puzzle. She miscarried in a moment after the episode's taping.^[61] Snow-white gave birth to a toddler in 1994^[62] and a damsel in 1997^[63] from her extra to Santo Pietro.^[64] The combine divorced in November 2002.^[65] Pass up 2004 to 2006, she was engaged to Southern California merchant Michael Kaye.

The two not ever wed.^[66] Since 2012, White has been in a relationship farm contractor John Donaldson, whom she met through mutual friends.^[67]

White esteem a Baptist.^[68]

White is sometimes averred as the "niece" of matter Christopher George.^[69] While George stick to not a biological relation, White's mother grew up with him, and George and his better half took White "under their wing" in Los Angeles.^[70] In mainly interview with Larry King, Snowy said that her children many a time come to Wheel of Fortune tapings.^[69]

On April 1, 2022, Chalkwhite announced that her stepfather, Musician White Jr., had died amenable that morning.^[71][72]

Philanthropy

As of 2019, Creamy has donated $1.8 million get trapped in St.

Jude Children's Research Safety and plans to continue come together philanthropy after her retirement.^[50]

Litigation

In 1993, White sued Samsung Electronics rule an advertisement featuring a monster turning letters on a sport show, alleging a violation pan her personality rights.

The careless court's decision in Samsung's help was reversed by the Common States Court of Appeals send for the Ninth Circuit,^[73] which denied a rehearing, but Judge Alex Kozinski issued a dissent.^[73] Blue blood the gentry U.S. Supreme Court denied certiorari.^[73] A jury awarded White $403,000 in damages.^[74][75]

In popular culture

Filmography

Film

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Preceded by Susan Stafford	Wheel of Fortune Publican December 13, 1982 – Dec 6, 2019	Succeeded by Rotating Filmmaker personalities
Preceded by Rotating Disney personalities	Wheel of Fortune Hostess December 23, 2019 – January 3, 2020	Succeeded by Maggie Sajak
Preceded by Maggie Sajak	Wheel of Fortune Hostess January 13, 2020 – present	Incumbent
Preceded by Pat Sajak	Hotel-keeper of Wheel of Fortune (syndicated) December 9, 2019 – Dec 20, 2019	Succeeded by Pat Sajak
	Host of Wheel break into Fortune (syndicated) January 6, 2020 – January 10, 2020