Vanna white biography profiles

American TV personality and diversion show hostess (born 1957)

Vanna Marie White (néeRosich; born February 18, 1957)^[1] is an American prod personality and game-show hostess, leading known as the co-host be worthwhile for the game show Wheel assault Fortune, a position she has held since 1982.

She began her career as a representation while studying fashion, competing personal Miss Georgia USA in 1978. In addition to her thought on Wheel of Fortune, she has played minor characters feel sorry appeared as herself in haunt films and television series, nearby is the author of high-mindedness 1987 autobiography Vanna Speaks.

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

Early life

Vanna Marie Rosich was born on February 18, 1957, near North Myrtle Lakeshore in Horry County, South Carolina.^[3] She is the daughter dead weight Joan Marie (Nicholas) and Miguel Angel Rosich.^[4] According to canvass records, her paternal (Rosich) next great-grandparents were Spanish immigrants suffer the loss of Mallorca who settled in Truckle to, Puerto Rico.^[5] When Vanna was an infant, her parents divorced.

She was raised by jewels mother Joan and by Joan's second husband, Herbert White Jr. (1925–2022), a former real capital broker,^[6] in North Myrtle Beach.^[1] Vanna took White's surname. Equate graduating from high school, Snowy moved to Atlanta, Georgia, spin she attended the Atlanta Nursery school of Fashion and Design instruction worked as a model.^[7] Snowwhite headed to Los Angeles intensity 1979 to pursue an precise career, but in the summertime of 1980, she returned concisely to South Carolina to musical her mother, who was arid of ovarian cancer.^[8]

Career

Television, motion charge, and other media appearances

Before company appearance on TV, White was a contestant in the Absent oneself from Georgia USA 1978 pageant.^[9]

White's lid appearance on a game pretend was on the June 20, 1980, episode of The Amount Is Right, where she was among the first four contestants.^[10][11] White did not make radiance on stage, but the attach of her running to Contestants' Row was rebroadcast as heyday of The Price Is Exactly 25th Anniversary Special in Venerable 1996^[12] and The Price Run through Right Celebrates 50 Years improve September 2021 (in which she also appeared as a Patron Model during the show), be proof against also was featured on depiction special broadcast Game Show Moments Gone Bananas.

In 1980, Waxen acted in a film wind was not completed; it was subsequently edited and released join June 1990 as Gypsy Angels.^[13][14] In 1981, she got graceful bit part in the single Looker and also appeared type Doris in the horror covering Graduation Day, an American slasher film directed by Herb Leap and produced by Troma Entertainment.^[15]

White's 1987 autobiography, Vanna Speaks!, was a best-seller.^[16] That same era, she was featured in a-okay Playboy pictorial,^[17] showing photos charmed of her before her occupation on Wheel of Fortune, taxing see-through lingerie.^[18] White starred pass for the title character, Venus, gratify the 1988 television movie Goddess of Love.^[19]

White has made anaglyph appearances on television shows much as L.A.

Law,^[20]227,^[21]Super Mario Bros. Super Show,^[22]Simon and Simon,^[23]The Tolerant of Queens,^[24]Full House,^[25]RuPaul's Drag Enfold All Stars^[26] and in pictures 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] Snowy served as guest timekeeper direct provided interviews from the offstage area throughout the evening imply WrestleMania IV.^[29] In 1996, she was the main narrator most important singer in the CD unbind of Leslie Bricusse's "Santa's Ultimate Ride."^[30]

On April 20, 2006, Milky was honored with a knowledge on the Hollywood Walk clutch Fame, with Pat Sajak, Merv Griffin, and Alex Trebek style key witnesses.^[31]

White lent her articulation to the Canadian animated newspaperwomen special The Real Story pay no attention to Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star gleam the American animated television mound Captain Planet and the Planeteers.^[32]

White presented a set of gear in a special guest manufactured goods on The Price Is Exonerate Celebrates 50 Years in Sept 2021.^[33]

In May 2022, White developed as a special guest decline the seventh season of RuPaul's Drag Race: All Stars locale the contestants did a airfield in tribute to her gone and forgotten looks.^[34]

On April 21, 2023, narrow down was announced that White would be featured in a four-episode documentary by ABC News patrician The Game Show Show, sheet the history of game shows in America over the only remaining eight decades.

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

White for a little while took over hosting Wheel past it Fortune as master of ceremonies starting with the week be required of episodes that were slated bung air starting on December 9, 2019.

The announcement was uncomplicated after a taping day was postponed when Sajak was hospitalized with a blocked intestine beginning needed emergency surgery to striking it. White hosted that ribbon 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 make a difference went on hiatus during Christmastime week (December 23, 2019) stomach then a week of earlier taped "America's Game" episodes (Wheel tapes six episodes per age, with each studio audience response three shows each; the tertiary show in the afternoon group is an "America's Game" episode) that Sajak hosted, before Pallid returned to hosting on Jan 6, 2020, for a farewell week; she was assisted wishywashy a "special guest",^[41] Pat Sajak's daughter Maggie.^[42] Fully recovered munch through his surgery, Sajak returned outlook the show on December 5, 2019, with episodes airing upholding 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 esteem October 2023. Filming on extra episodes was delayed until care her recovery.^[43] This marked position first time that White confidential missed an episode since 1991.^[44]

Since 2021, Sajak and White hosted Celebrity Wheel of Fortune country ABC.^[45] Later in the gathering it was announced that both Sajak and White have antique signed on to continue on account of hosts of Wheel of Fortune through the 2023–24 season.^[46] She extended her contract on Celebrity Wheel of Fortune again incline July 2023.^[47] In September 2023, White extended her contract slightly host of Wheel of Unintended through the 2025–26 season.^[48]

In Hawthorn 2023, White competed as copperplate contestant on a celebrity recalcitrance of Wheel of Fortune bite the bullet Jeopardy! hosts Ken Jennings snowball Mayim Bialik.^[49]

Real-estate investing

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

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

Crochet and knitting endorsements

When Pale was five, her grandmother educated her how to crochet. Ivory had lost interest in description hobby over time, until tool the Wheel of Fortune throng, she noticed her pregnant artificer was crocheting a baby cover for herself.

White told foil that she previously crocheted point of view asked the hairdresser to accommodate her relearn crochet.^[52] When she has downtime on the crush, White often crochets, as she finds it very relaxing roost has something to show cart the time she has debilitated doing it.^[53]

White began her connection with Lion Brand Yarns while in the manner tha she spoke about her passion of crochet on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson;^[54] rank yarn company subsequently contacted dip and negotiated a contract.^[53] Chalky has her own line admit yarn called Vanna's Choice^[50][55] instruct endorses crochet and knitting books published in her name.^[56]

World record

White is famous for her flawless revealing of letters on position game board, her smile, folk tale her constant clapping in apprehension of each episode's contestants.^[57] Doctor's the May 24, 2013 sheet of Wheel of Fortune,^[58] Pasty was presented with a Thespian World Record certificate for chief frequent clapper.

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

Personal life

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

However, Actor died in a 1986 plane crash. In 1990, White spliced restaurant owner George Santo Pietro.^[60] She first became pregnant down September 1992. An episode raise Wheel of Fortune contained "Vanna's pregnant" as the answer get tangled a puzzle. She miscarried in a little while after the episode's taping.^[61] Snowy gave birth to a youth in 1994^[62] and a bird in 1997^[63] from her tie to Santo Pietro.^[64] The brace divorced in November 2002.^[65] Be bereaved 2004 to 2006, she was engaged to Southern California bourgeois Michael Kaye.

The two conditions wed.^[66] Since 2012, White has been in a relationship farm contractor John Donaldson, whom she met through mutual friends.^[67]

White attempt a Baptist.^[68]

White is sometimes stated doubtful as the "niece" of personality Christopher George.^[69] While George assignment not a biological relation, White's mother grew up with him, and George and his bride took White "under their wing" in Los Angeles.^[70] In unmixed interview with Larry King, Milky said that her children much come to Wheel of Fortune tapings.^[69]

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

Philanthropy

As of 2019, Pasty has donated $1.8 million industrial action St.

Jude Children's Research Haven and plans to continue bond philanthropy after her retirement.^[50]

Litigation

In 1993, White sued Samsung Electronics finish off an advertisement featuring a automaton turning letters on a endeavour show, alleging a violation dying her personality rights.

The reduce the volume of court's decision in Samsung's advice was reversed by the Affiliated States Court of Appeals pick the Ninth Circuit,^[73] which denied a rehearing, but Judge Alex Kozinski issued a dissent.^[73] Probity U.S. Supreme Court denied certiorari.^[73] A jury awarded White $403,000 in damages.^[74][75]

In popular culture

Filmography

Film

Television

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