At any time when recreation present contestants make wildly dangerous guesses or handle to lose out after coming so near profitable, it’s not so unusual for viewers to play armchair quarterback whereas yelling any variety of NSFW feedback on the TV. Much less widespread, nonetheless, are such exclamations from these heading up the sport reveals themselves. However that hasn’t stopped some Wheel of Fortune followers from considering Vanna White dropped an F-bomb on the air.
Understandably, the second in query didn’t happen in the course of the common in-studio portion of Wheel of Fortune’s episode filming. (I can solely think about if Vanna responded to a contestant’s request to purchase an E with “Fuck no, you’ll be able to’t.”) After the profitable contestant walked away from the Bonus Spherical with a model new car, Seacrest cued up a pretaped clip from a ski journey to Park Metropolis the co-stars took collectively. Though calling it a “ski journey” implies each efficiently traversed a slope or two, and that undoubtedly wasn’t the case.
Seacrest facetiously claimed that White “panicked” after he took a flawed flip, and within the video we see, the radio host’s flawed flip occurred nearly instantly after he tried to confidently push himself ahead. And it’s certainly how White reacts that performs into viewers’ listening to extra mature language than what recreation reveals normally provide up. Right here’s the trade:
- RYAN: All proper, thanks for watching from this winter wonderland. See you subsequent time on Wheel of Fortune!
- VANNA: Bye! Oooh! [QUESTIONABLE]
- RYAN [now laid out facefirst in the snow]: Too large of a slope for me.
- VANNA: I am gonna go assist Ryan. Bye-bye!
It is a goofy bit, although I genuinely purchased into the notion that Vanna White was not snug with the thought of zipping round snowy mountains with skis hooked up. I also can purchase into the assumption that Vanna could be probably the most trendy particular person standing on any mountain at any given time, however that is inappropriate.
Quickly after the episode aired, one fan took to Reddit to see in the event that they had been alone in assuming that Vanna exclaimed “Fuck!” after seeing Seacrest tumble. Because the OP wrote within the feedback of the publish:
I swear she says the F phrase! . . . I maintain making an attempt to present her the advantage of the doubt that perhaps she mentioned duck lol NOPE!
To that Redditor’s credit score, the audio from the recorded video within the publish sounds tinny and sharp sufficient that it does truly sound like an F-bomb, even when it wasn’t muttered below her breath because it in all probability would have been had she by chance cursed on TV.
Nevertheless it nearly undoubtedly was not “fuck” that spewed forth from the co-host’s mouth. When rewatching the episode with my YouTube TV subscription, I put the closed captions on, and it confirmed my perception that every one she mentioned there was “Look!” for the reason that digital camera goes to Seacrest proper after she says it.
And I believe we are able to all agree on how unlikely it’s that an episode taped and edited far prematurely of airing would have left an F-bomb in there untouched. I can not even think about a world the place a bleeped-out model of that second would air, and might solely assume it will have been re-recorded if Vanna did certainly let one slip.
One can assume that Vanna helped Seacrest up, and with out cursing him out, since we already understand how form and giving she’s been to him throughout his freshman yr as Wheel of Fortune host. (And he nonetheless selected to amusingly prank her for Christmas.) She additionally thought it will be a enjoyable concept to ask followers to present him a nickname, although which will have gone barely extra askew than she anticipated.
That Different Time Ryan Seacrest Fell Down Lately
Snowy climate would not have to enter into the image for Ryan Seacrest to take a random tumble in entrance of Wheel of Fortune viewers. In the identical week that his ski stumble occurred, the esteemed host additionally misplaced his footing on the set itself because of an excessively joyous contestant.
Ouch @RyanSeacrest simply received knocked over!! #wheeloffortune @TheVannaWhite pic.twitter.com/MJzM7OAvxtJanuary 22, 2025
After the winner hugged and grabbed onto Seacrest within the midst of leaping up and down, he let go at simply the flawed second, sending the American Idol emcee down for a fast depend. Hopefully he’ll handle to remain upright for the rest of episodes airing this week.