Pat Sajak, Vanna White were drunk on TV’s “Wheel”

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – “Wheel of Fortune”
host Pat Sajak has said in a broadcast interview that he and
fellow host Vanna White were drunk when they taped some early
episodes of the show, but that he is too old for that now.
The 65-year-old Sajak made the revelation in an appearance
earlier this week on cable network ESPN2’s show “Dan Le Batard
is Highly Questionable.”
“When I first started and was much younger and could
tolerate those things, we had a different show then,” Sajak said
in the broadcast interview.
Sajak explained that during the production of those “Wheel
of Fortune” shows, he and co-host Vanna White would take two and
a half-hour breaks while prizes were loaded onto the set in
Burbank, California. So, they would go to a nearby restaurant
and have “great margaritas,” he said.
“Vanna and I would go across and have two or three or six
(margaritas), and then come and do the last shows and have
trouble recognizing the alphabet,” Sajak said on the program.
Sajak further explained that he no longer mixes alcohol and
his hosting duties.
“Now, if I were to inhale the cork and a bottle of wine I
would probably keel over, I’m getting a little older for this,”
he said.
Sajak and White have hosted “Wheel of Fortune” since 1983.