Pat Sajak - wikipedia Pat Sajak Pat Sajak Sajak in 2006 Patrick Leonard Sajdak ( 1946 - 10 - 26 ) October 26, 1946 ( age 71 ) Chicago, Illinois, U.S. Alma mater Columbia College Chicago Occupation Television personality, game show host, former DJ and TV weatherman Years active 1975 -- present Political party Republican Spouse ( s ) Sherrill Sajak ( m. 1979 ; div. 1986 ) Lesly Brown ( m. 1989 ) Children Pat Sajak born Patrick Leonard Sajdak ; October 26, 1946 ) is an American television personality, former weatherman, and talk show host, best known as the host of the American television game show Wheel of Fortune. Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 3 In popular culture 4 Personal life 5 See also 6 References 7 External links Early life Sajak was born and raised in Chicago, the son of Joyce Helen ( Brandecka ) and Leonard Anthony Sajdak, a factory worker. All of his grandparents were Polish. He graduated from Farragut High School in 1964, then went to Columbia College Chicago while working as a desk clerk at the Palmer House hotel. He served in the US military as a disc jockey during the Vietnam War for American Forces Vietnam Network. Sajak hosted the same Dawn Buster radio show that Adrian Cronauer had, and for 14 months followed Cronauer 's tradition of signing on with `` Good Morning Vietnam ! '' Career Sajak won a contest on WLS radio 's Dick Biondi Show to be a guest teen deejay. While at Columbia College Chicago, his broadcasting instructor Al Parker told him that a local radio station ( WEDC ) was looking for a newsman. Sajak applied for the job and was hired to work from midnight to 6 : 00 AM. In 1968, Sajak joined the U.S. Army, and was sent to Vietnam, where he served as a disc jockey on Armed Forces Radio. On The Military Channel 's program, An Officer and a Movie, Sajak admitted to botching President Nixon 's 1969 Christmas broadcast to the troops ; he accidentally cut the feed off prematurely. Upon realizing the error, he decided it would be best not to resume the feed. In the early 1970s, Sajak DJed for a Murray, Kentucky, radio station for a year. Also in the early 1970s, Sajak began DJ'ing at 50,000 - watt WSM in Nashville ; at the time WSM was playing pop music during the day, and he was the 3 : 00 -- 5 : 00pm afternoon personality. The radio station 's television sister, WSM - TV ( now WSMV ), brought Sajak on screen, first as a voiceover artist doing station identifications and anchoring the five - minute newscasts during NBC 's Today Show, then as a weekend and substitute weatherman, where he became acquainted with anchor Dan Miller. In 1977 KNBC - TV in Los Angeles was looking for a weatherman, and spotted Sajak working in Nashville. Sajak accepted KNBC 's request for him to be a full - time weatherman for the station. In 1981 Merv Griffin asked Sajak if he would be interested in taking over the duties as host on Wheel of Fortune from Chuck Woolery. However, Fred Silverman, then president and CEO of NBC, rejected his hiring, claiming he was too local, and Griffin responded by imposing a moratorium on new tapings until Sajak was hired. The issue became moot when Silverman was dismissed due to repeated programming failures and replaced by Brandon Tartikoff. Sajak, who had already hosted two game show pilots in 1980, Press Your Luck for Ralph Edwards ( no relation to the 1983 CBS game show of the same name ) and Puzzlers for Mark Goodson, accepted the position. He hosted both the daytime ( NBC ) and syndicated evening versions of Wheel from 1983 to 1989, and continues to host the latter version. Sajak had a small role as a Buffalo, New York, newscaster in the 1982 comedy film Airplane II : The Sequel. When his late - night talk show on CBS premiered in January 1989, he left the daytime version of Wheel, and was replaced by former San Diego Chargers place - kicker Rolf Benirschke. Sajak appeared on Super Password several times from 1984 to 1989, as well as Password Plus in 1981, shortly before taking on hosting duties on Wheel. Other game shows on which Sajak guested were Dream House and Just Men !. Sajak was Grand Marshall of the National Memorial Day Parade in 2011 Sajak hosted a short - lived late - night talk show on CBS from January 9, 1989, to April 13, 1990. Dan Miller, Sajak 's old friend and former anchor at WSM - TV in Nashville, joined Sajak as his sidekick. He later became a frequent guest host for CNN 's Larry King Live, effective when King himself was unable to attend. Sajak also became a regular substitute host for Regis Philbin on the syndicated Live with Regis and Kelly. Sajak also hosted a program, Pat Sajak Weekend, on the Fox News Channel in 2003. More recently, he began hosting The Pat Sajak Baseball Hour, a syndicated radio sports talk show. Sajak is an External Director of conservative publishing house Eagle Publishing and is on the Board of Trustees at Hillsdale College in southern Michigan, currently as vice chairman. He has written for Human Events and served on the Board of Directors for the Claremont Institute. In 1983, Sajak portrayed Kevin Hathaway in the NBC daytime soap opera Days of Our Lives. In 1993, Sajak appeared as himself on the popular children 's cartoon show Rugrats. In 1997, Sajak pulled an April Fool 's Day prank on fans when he and Vanna White were contestants on an episode of Wheel hosted by Alex Trebek. Both the winnings of Sajak and White were donated to charity ( in this case, the American Cancer Society and the Boy Scouts of America ). In return, Sajak hosted a regular episode of Jeopardy ! in place of Trebek. He also appeared at the beginning of a 2010 April Fool 's episode, along with Jeff Probst and Neil Patrick Harris. In 2001, he appeared as himself in the episode `` Inner Tube '' on the sitcom The King of Queens. Sajak began writing for the National Review Online in 2010. In his first post he questioned whether public employees should be allowed to vote on issues that would benefit them directly. He also has contributed to the center - right socio - political / social networking website, Ricochet.com. Sajak also is the author of several puzzle games, the first and best - known of them being `` Lucky Letters '', which debuted in 2007. The games, which Sajak developed with puzzle developer David L. Hoyt, are syndicated through Universal Uclick. Sajak has also appeared on episodes of ESPN radio 's The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz, as well as Le Batard 's other show, Highly Questionable. Sajak is signed as a host of Wheel of Fortune until 2020. In popular culture Sajak with Vanna White in 2006 Pat Sajak was parodied in a 1980s Sesame Street sketch, with a Muppet named Pat Playjacks hosting `` Squeal of Fortune ''. The goal was for the contestants ( Prairie Dawn and The Count ) to guess how many times a pig in the center of the wheel would squeal before the wheel stopped. During the 1980s comedian Martin Short frequently portrayed on the sketch comedy television shows SCTV and Saturday Night Live a fictional character he called Ed Grimley, a hyperactive manchild who is obsessed with banal popular culture, Sajak in particular. In an episode of the 1993 animated series, Animaniacs, Wakko refers to Yakko as Pat. Yakko then replies with `` Wrong wheel '', a reference to Sajak and the Wheel of Fortune game show he hosts. In the Comedy Central 's Brickleberry in Season 3, Episode 4 : That Brother 's My Father, Pat Sajak gets kidnapped and becomes a hostage to the wheel of fortune. In the 1994 Rugrats episode `` Chuckie is Rich '', Pat Sajak awards Chaz with $10 million. In 1992, Sajak was a special guest star in the TV show The Commish. The episode first aired on November 7, 1992 and was was called `` The Two Faces Of Ed ''. He played psychologist Dr. Brian Brandon. Personal life Sajak is married to Lesly Brown Sajak, a photographer, with whom he has a son, Patrick Michael James Sajak ( born September 22, 1990 ), and a daughter, Maggie Marie Sajak ( born January 5, 1995 ). The couple lives in Severna Park, Maryland, with a second home in Los Angeles, California. In 2005, Sajak became an investor in the Golden Baseball League, a professional, independent baseball league with teams in California, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, Alberta, British Columbia, and Baja California. During a guest appearance in the broadcast booth at a March 2012 Baltimore Orioles -- Boston Red Sox spring training game, Sajak acknowledged that he had called some baseball games in the past. Sajak is featured in a brief film shown at the visitor 's center at Mount Vernon, the residence of George Washington, where he explains to tourists the attractions of the site. Sajak owns Maryland - based AM radio station WNAV in Annapolis ( since 1998 ). Sajak has written a number of columns for the conservative magazine Human Events. According to NEWSMEAT, Sajak has donated over $17,000 to candidates and election committees, all associated with the Republican Party. Sajak is also a regular poster and podcast participant on the conservative blog ricochet.com. He has long acknowledged being a climate change skeptic. He is also a financial supporter of the Young America 's Foundation, which sponsors conservative speakers on college campuses. Sajak is a member of the Churches of Christ. See also Vanna White References Jump up ^ `` Pat Sajak Biography ''. TVGuide.com. Archived from the original on April 1, 2016. Retrieved 2007 - 10 - 15. Jump up ^ `` Leonard Anthony Sajdak ( 1921 - 1961 ) - Find A Grave... '' www.findagrave.com. Retrieved 12 November 2017. Jump up ^ `` Meet Pat Sajak ''. patsajakgames.com. P.A.T. Productions and Uclick. Retrieved November 15, 2009. Jump up ^ `` Pat Sajak Biography ''. IMDb. Retrieved May 20, 2017. Jump up ^ Sajak, Pat ( June 7, 2014 ). `` ' Wheel of Fortune ' Host Pat Sajak Recounts His Days as an Army DJ ''. USO.org. Retrieved February 8, 2018. Jump up ^ `` The Good Fortunes of Pat Sajak ''. The New York Times. December 11, 1988. p. 4. Retrieved May 9, 2014. Jump up ^ Griffin, Merv. Merv : Making the Good Life Last. New York : Pocket Books, 2003, page 101 Jump up ^ American Veterans Center ( May 25, 2011 ). `` 2011 National Memorial Day Parade Lineup ''. www.marching.com. Archived from the original on 2017 - 12 - 24. Jump up ^ `` Pat Sajak ''. IMDb. Retrieved 12 November 2017. Jump up ^ `` Pat Sajak Weekend '' -- via www.imdb.com. Jump up ^ Regnery Publishing : `` Eagle Publishing Corporate Information '' Archived 2009 - 04 - 14 at the Wayback Machine. Jump up ^ `` Board of Trustees ''. Hillsdale College. Retrieved February 24, 2015. Jump up ^ `` Rugrats Episodes for 1993 ''. rugratonline.com. Steve Mindykowski. Archived from the original on May 20, 2010. Retrieved October 28, 2009. Pat Sajak appeared as himself in this episode as the presenter of the $10 million check, as well as endorser of the magazine contest. Jump up ^ Sajak, Pat ( October 13, 2010 ). `` Public Employees and Elections : A Conflict of Interest ? ''. National Review Online. Jump up ^ Amira, Dan ( October 14, 2010 ). `` Pat Sajak Should Stick to Telling People Which Letters Are in Certain Words and Phrases ''. New York Magazine. Jump up ^ `` Pat Sajak Profile ''. Silent Cal Productions. Retrieved September 23, 2012. Jump up ^ PatSajakGames.com. Retrieved December 25, 2011. Jump up ^ `` Dan LeBatard & Stugotz ''. AM 790 The Ticket. Archived from the original on August 28, 2016. Retrieved March 3, 2017. friends of the program... Pat Sajak Jump up ^ Peters, Michah ( December 12, 2014 ). `` Pat Sajak rapped a few bars of a Rae Sremmurd song on Highly Questionable ''. For the Win. USA Today. Retrieved March 4, 2017. Jump up ^ Wagmeister, Elizabeth ( May 2, 2017 ). `` Pat Sajak, Vanna White, Alex Trebek Sign on for Two More Seasons of ' Wheel of Fortune, ' ' Jeopardy ' ''. Variety. Retrieved January 10, 2018. Jump up ^ `` Squeal of Fortune ''. YouTube. Jump up ^ `` Pat Sajak 's House in Severna Park, MD ( # 2 ) ''. 18 May 2009. Jump up ^ Aaron Barnhart, `` Wheel of Very Good Fortune for Sajak '', Chicago Tribune, May 12, 2005. Jump up ^ Golden Baseball League Ownership Group ( Biographies ) Archived 2008 - 08 - 03 at the Wayback Machine. Jump up ^ Vanna gives us letters, but Sajak gives us baseball ! ( GBL Medford website, August 28, 2008 ) Jump up ^ `` Bobby Valentine Meets With ' Wheel of Fortune ' Host Pat Sajak Prior to Red Sox - Orioles Game ( Photo ) ''. NESN. WordPress. Retrieved April 23, 2013. Jump up ^ Trescott, Jacqueline ( October 24, 2006 ). `` Fleshing Out a Founding Father ''. The Washington Post. Jump up ^ Trescott, Jacqueline ( November 5, 2006 ). `` George Washington : Surveyor, slave owner, soldier / New Mount Vernon exhibits reveal more facets of president ''. San Francisco Chronicle. Jump up ^ A list of articles by Pat Sajak online at Human Events magazine Jump up ^ NEWSMEAT ▷ Pat Sajak 's Federal Campaign Contribution Report Archived 2008 - 04 - 15 at the Wayback Machine. Jump up ^ `` Membership - Ricochet ''. Jump up ^ `` ' Wheel of Fortune ' Host Pat Sajak Under Fire for Global Warming Tweet ? ! ''. Fox News. May 21, 2014. Retrieved December 11, 2014. Sajak has long acknowledged that he is a climate change skeptic. Jump up ^ Saul, Stephanie ( May 20, 2017 ). `` The Conservative Force Behind Speeches Roiling College Campuses ''. The New York Times. Retrieved May 20, 2017. Jump up ^ `` Famous members of the Churches of Christ ''. Adherents.com. 2015. Retrieved 2015 - 01 - 10. 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Question: who is pat from wheel of fortune married to
Answer: Lesly Brown