The legendary and famous American game show and television show host Chuck Woolery passed away this past weekend at the age of 83. of age, as several local media have been able to confirm, such as TMZ. In his later years, Woolery had become a podcaster right-wing party that accused world authorities of lying about the Covid pandemic.
It was Mark Young, a close friend of his and co-host of the podcast with him. Blunt Force Truthhas revealed that the presenter was at his home in Texas with his wife when she told him that she didn’t look too good and went to bed. When his wife, Kim, went to the room, she saw that her husband was having trouble breathing. Although he called 911, Woolery did not survive.
Woolery, born in Ashland, Kentucky, first served in the Navy and then went to college, although He ended up deciding on the world of music, forming several groups and composing, both for himself and other artists, various songs, both folk and psychedelic rock.
Although he was in Nashville trying to make it as a singer, his quick wit and good looks made him an ideal candidate for NBC, which put him in charge, on January 6, 1975, at the age of 33, of his program Wheel of Fortune, germ of what is known today as The wheel of luck.
“I had an interview that lasted about 15 or 20 minutes,” Woolery explained to the New York Instances in 2003. “After showwhen Merv (Griffin, TV host and entrepreneur) asked me if I wanted to do a game show, I thought, ‘Great. A guy with a worn-out jacket and an equally ugly mustache who doesn’t care what you say? “That’s the kind of man I want to be,” he joked.
A few years later, in 1981, comparing himself to other well-known presenters, Woolery asked for a considerable raise (up to $500,000 a year), but was replaced by Pat Sajakwho has always been commonly associated with the program in its American version.
Woolery, who would end up being inducted into the American Television Program Hall of Fame in 2007, however gained his greatest fame from 1983, when he began the first of his 11 years running the hit dating show Love Connection. Later, he would also present the contest based on the Scrabble board game and even a talk show that was a failure.
To Chuck Woolery, Emmy winner who played himself in a couple of episodes of the series Melrose Place, He is survived by his wife Kim and four children.: Katherine, Melissa, Michael and Sean.