page_title: Vanna White
section_title: Wheel of Fortune television game show
hierarchical_section_title: Vanna White / Career / Wheel of Fortune television game show
caption_attribution_description: English: This photo depicts the handprints of Vanna White in front of Hollywood Hills Amphitheater at Walt Disney World's Disney's Hollywood Studios theme park.
context_page_description: Vanna Marie White is an American television personality and film actress known as the hostess of Wheel of Fortune since 1982.
context_section_description: After Wheel of Fortune hostess Susan Stafford left in October 1982, White was selected as one of three substitute hostesses (along with Vicki McCarty and Summer Bartholomew) to co-host the show. On December 13, 1982, White became the regular hostess.
  White is signed as a hostess of Wheel of Fortune until 2022.
  On November 8, 2019, Sony Pictures Television announced that White will take over hosting Wheel of Fortune as emcee starting with the week of episodes which are slated to air starting on December 9, 2019.  The announcement was made after a taping day was postponed after Pat Sajak was hospitalized with emergency surgery in order to clear a blocked intestine.  White hosted that taping day and the subsequent rescheduled taping day the next day. Guest letter activators were implemented during her shows hosting; the weeks of December 9 and 16 had Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse and other Disney characters during the Secret Santa Holiday Giveaway. The costumed Disney characters do not actually touch the game board; it was entirely automated during their guest hosting. Subsequently, the show went on hiatus during Christmas week (December 23, 2019) and then a week of previously-taped "America's Game" episodes (Wheel tapes six episodes per day, with each studio audience receiving three shows each; the third show in the afternoon session is an "America's Game" episode) that Sajak hosts, before White returned to hosting on January 6, 2020 for a final week; she was assisted by a "special guest", Pat Sajak's daughter Maggie. Fully recovered from his surgery, Sajak returned to the show on December 5, 2019 with episodes to be broadcast beginning on January 13, 2020.
caption: The handprints of Vanna White in front of Hollywood Hills Amphitheater at Walt Disney World's Disney's Hollywood Studios theme park
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