'Wheel of Fortune' Behind the Scenes: Little-known facts
This week 비바카지노 Viva's Vicki Dortch has taken you behind the scenes of the Emmy-winning game show "Wheel of Fortune."
There are a few things you might not know about the show's hosts.
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For example when they are taping the show and break is called, Vanna White heads behind the puzzle board to crochet.
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"I absolutely love it," White said.
She was taught by her grandmother when she was 5 and picked up the hobby again when she started the show.
"When I started 'Wheel of Fortune,' my hairdresser was having a baby, and she was crocheting a blanket and I said, 'Oh I want to do that again," White said.
White said she's made countless baby blankets for friends, choosing the perfect color and pattern for each one.
"It's so much fun. I even have it behind the puzzle board doing it all the time. I did it when she was doing my hair, I'm crocheting at the doctor's office. I always have a bag of crochet in my car. So if I'm going somewhere where I have to wait I don't want to waste a minute because I love doing it," White said.
She's turned the love into a lucrative business. White has her own line of yarn, sold in several major stores across the country.
"I donate half my proceeds to St. Jude," White said.
She recently donated a $1 million.
"Probably one of the highlights of my life to see those kids, and the parents and what those families go through. And the fact that St. Jude accepts anyone was very touching to me," White said.
When Dortch began her interview with Pat Sajak, she surprised him by mentioning a western Kentucky town they both have fond memories of -- Murray.
That's where Sajak landed his first job stateside after returning from Vietnam.
"After the Army, I couldn't get a job so I had a friend who had a friend in little old Murray, Kentucky, and there I was so, there we go," Sajak said.
After one year, Sajak left Murray and, at age 25, headed to the big city south of there.
"I literally packed up everything I had, headed for the nearest big city, which was Nashville, and things really got going," Sajak said.
"Wheel of Fortune" came along several years after jobs as a weatherman in Los Angeles.
"If I were to have made a list back then of 50 things I would be doing, a TV game show would have been 49. Nothing against it, I just didn't think of it, but you know doors open, and you decide to walk through and this one worked out," Sajak said.
And he's glad it did.
Forecasting the weather was one job he does not want to do again.
"It got a little boring to be walking down the street, and someone come up and say, 'My cousin is getting married in Fargo, North Dakota, next February.' And I'm sorry, I don't carry that in my pocket, so to tell you the truth I was happy when the weather was over," Sajak said.
"Wheel of Fortune" is shot on the old MGM lot (at Sony), which is where award-winning motion pictures like "Gone with the Wind," "The Wizard of Oz" and the controversial movie "The Interview" were shot.
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