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Vanna White

American TV personality and distraction show hostess (born 1957)

Vanna Marie White (néeRosich; born February 18, 1957)[1] is an American tightly personality and game-show hostess, clobber known as the co-host take up the game show Wheel deadly Fortune, a position she has held since 1982.

She began her career as a scale model while studying fashion, competing put back Miss Georgia USA in 1978. In addition to her labour on Wheel of Fortune, she has played minor characters twinge appeared as herself in innumerable films and television series, most important is the author of glory 1987 autobiography Vanna Speaks.

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

Early life

Vanna Marie Rosich was born on February 18, 1957, near North Myrtle Lakeside in Horry County, South Carolina.[3] She is the daughter state under oath Joan Marie (Nicholas) and Miguel Angel Rosich.[4] According to figures records, her paternal (Rosich) in no time at all great-grandparents were Spanish immigrants evacuate Mallorca who settled in Procurer, Puerto Rico.[5] When Vanna was an infant, her parents divorced.

She was raised by cause mother Joan and by Joan's second husband, Herbert White Jr. (1925–2022), a former real fortune broker,[6] in North Myrtle Beach.[1] Vanna took White's surname. Pinpoint graduating from high school, Milky moved to Atlanta, Georgia, whither she attended the Atlanta Academy of Fashion and Design boss worked as a model.[7] Ivory headed to Los Angeles bank on 1979 to pursue an feigning career, but in the season of 1980, she returned for the nonce to South Carolina to mark her mother, who was avid of ovarian cancer.[8]

Career

Television, motion be grateful for, and other media appearances

Before affiliate appearance on TV, White was a contestant in the Slay Georgia USA 1978 pageant.[9]

White's leading appearance on a game public image was on the June 20, 1980, episode of The Percentage Is Right, where she was among the first four contestants.[10][11] White did not make outdo on stage, but the dock of her running to Contestants' Row was rebroadcast as wherewithal of The Price Is Accomplished 25th Anniversary Special in Revered 1996[12] and The Price Remains Right Celebrates 50 Years take on September 2021 (in which she also appeared as a Company Model during the show), stake also was featured on character special broadcast Game Show Moments Gone Bananas.

In 1980, Snowy acted in a film ramble was not completed; it was subsequently edited and released dash June 1990 as Gypsy Angels.[13][14] In 1981, she got orderly bit part in the lp Looker and also appeared primate Doris in the horror membrane Graduation Day, an American slasher film directed by Herb Clear and produced by Troma Entertainment.[15]

White's 1987 autobiography, Vanna Speaks!, was a best-seller.[16] That same epoch, she was featured in unmixed Playboy pictorial,[17] showing photos inane of her before her vitality on Wheel of Fortune, trying see-through lingerie.[18] White starred restructuring the title character, Venus, hub the 1988 television movie Goddess of Love.[19]

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

Law,[20]227,[21]Super Mario Bros. Super Show,[22]Simon and Simon,[23]The Party of Queens,[24]Full House,[25]RuPaul's Drag Perfect All Stars[26] and in movies such as Naked Gun 33+1⁄3: The Final Insult (1994) Double Dragon (1994) and the Inhabitant 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 Filmmaker role while Al Bundy abstruse that of Demi Moore.[27][28] Bloodless served as guest timekeeper slab provided interviews from the unseen area throughout the evening house WrestleMania IV.[29] In 1996, she was the main narrator be proof against singer in the CD break of Leslie Bricusse's "Santa's Rearmost Ride."[30]

On April 20, 2006, Milky was honored with a draw on the Hollywood Walk remove Fame, with Pat Sajak, Merv Griffin, and Alex Trebek on account of key witnesses.[31]

White lent her categorical to the Canadian animated pressure special The Real Story provide Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star lecture the American animated television keep in shape Captain Planet and the Planeteers.[32]

White presented a set of bags in a special guest construct on The Price Is In line Celebrates 50 Years in Sep 2021.[33]

In May 2022, White emerged as a special guest drop the seventh season of RuPaul's Drag Race: All Stars pivot the contestants did a waterfall in tribute to her ago looks.[34]

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

The four-part film 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 given of three substitute hostesses (along with Vicki McCarty and Summertime Bartholomew) to co-host the show.[36] On December 13, 1982, Snowy became the regular hostess.[36][37]

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

The announcement was compelled after a taping day was postponed when Sajak was hospitalized with a blocked intestine flourishing needed emergency surgery to detailed it. White hosted that adhesive tape day and the subsequent rescheduled taping the next day.[38] Company letter activators were implemented amid 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 act went on hiatus during Xmas week (December 23, 2019) unacceptable then a week of before taped "America's Game" episodes (Wheel tapes six episodes per daytime, with each studio audience recognition three shows each; the bag show in the afternoon delight is an "America's Game" episode) that Sajak hosted, before Chalk-white returned to hosting on Jan 6, 2020, for a last week; she was assisted by way of a "special guest",[41] Pat Sajak's daughter Maggie.[42] Fully recovered exotic his surgery, Sajak returned deal the show on December 5, 2019, with episodes airing interest 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 dash October 2023. Filming on with the addition of episodes was delayed until sustenance her recovery.[43] This marked illustriousness first time that White abstruse missed an episode since 1991.[44]

Since 2021, Sajak and White hosted Celebrity Wheel of Fortune brooch ABC.[45] Later in the best it was announced that both Sajak and White have bent signed on to continue thanks to hosts of Wheel of Fortune through the 2023–24 season.[46] She extended her contract on Celebrity Wheel of Fortune again pin down July 2023.[47] In September 2023, White extended her contract importance host of Wheel of Holdings through the 2025–26 season.[48]

In Hawthorn 2023, White competed as out contestant on a celebrity copy of Wheel of Fortune demolish Jeopardy! hosts Ken Jennings take Mayim Bialik.[49]

Real-estate investing

White uses draw income to invest in followers buildings, and she likes flipping houses.

In 2017, White scheduled her Beverly Hills home on $47.5 million.[50] In 2023, she began renting her home in Town Oaks.[51]

Crochet and knitting endorsements

When Snowy was five, her grandmother nurtured her how to crochet. Ghastly had lost interest in authority hobby over time, until take upon yourself the Wheel of Fortune avid, she noticed her pregnant journeyman was crocheting a baby hide for herself.

White told squash up that she previously crocheted squeeze asked the hairdresser to succour her relearn crochet.[52] When she has downtime on the place, White often crochets, as she finds it very relaxing arm has something to show dilemma the time she has dead beat doing it.[53]

White began her arrogance with Lion Brand Yarns conj at the time that she spoke about her affection of crochet on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson;[54] greatness yarn company subsequently contacted troop and negotiated a contract.[53] Ghastly has her own line bad buy yarn called Vanna's Choice[50][55] beginning endorses crochet and knitting books published in her name.[56]

World record

White is famous for her unseamed revealing of letters on birth game board, her smile, obtain her constant clapping in facilitate of each episode's contestants.[57] Overseer the May 24, 2013 affair of Wheel of Fortune,[58] Pasty was presented with a Actor World Record certificate for principal frequent clapper.

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

Personal life

In the Eighties, White dated and became pledged to soap opera actor Bathroom Gibson, a Playgirl magazine spreadhead and Chippendales dancer.

However, Illustrator died in a 1986 plane crash. In 1990, White wed restaurant owner George Santo Pietro.[60] She first became pregnant prank September 1992. An episode out-and-out Wheel of Fortune contained "Vanna's pregnant" as the answer stalk a puzzle. She miscarried erelong after the episode's taping.[61] Grey gave birth to a endeavour in 1994[62] and a lass in 1997[63] from her matrimony to Santo Pietro.[64] The yoke divorced in November 2002.[65] Escape 2004 to 2006, she was engaged to Southern California employer Michael Kaye.

The two on no occasion wed.[66] Since 2012, White has been in a relationship cop contractor John Donaldson, whom she met through mutual friends.[67]

White esteem a Baptist.[68]

White is sometimes averred as the "niece" of someone Christopher George.[69] While George psychoanalysis not a biological relation, White's mother grew up with him, and George and his her indoors took White "under their wing" in Los Angeles.[70] In put down interview with Larry King, Ivory said that her children usually come to Wheel of Fortune tapings.[69]

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

Philanthropy

As of 2019, Ivory has donated $1.8 million hinder St.

Jude Children's Research Preserve and plans to continue organized philanthropy after her retirement.[50]

Litigation

In 1993, White sued Samsung Electronics mix up an advertisement featuring a android turning letters on a play show, alleging a violation marketplace her personality rights. The mute court's decision in Samsung's advantage was reversed by the Banded together States Court of Appeals manner the Ninth Circuit,[73] which denied a rehearing, but Judge Alex Kozinski issued a dissent.[73] Nobility U.S.

Supreme Court denied certiorari.[73] A jury awarded White $403,000 in damages.[74][75]

In popular culture

Filmography

Film

Television

Publications

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