As the brand new period of Wheel of Fortune continues with Ryan Seacrest as its freshman host for the 2025 TV schedule, Vanna White remains to be preserving the normalcy going. She signed a brand new contract in 2024 after a prolonged negotiation, however it’s nonetheless been an adjustment getting used to Seacrest. Nevertheless, I simply came upon what number of days a season she actually places in for her $10 million wage and my blood is now working thick with jealousy.
White has been co-hosting Wheel of Fortune since 1982, and has since change into a not only a staple of the collection together with former longtime host Pat Sajak, however a popular culture icon generally. After Sajak introduced his retirement, it was unknown whether or not White would observe in his footsteps. Now that she’s sticking round, she opened up on the Elvis Duran Present on Z100 about what her work schedule actually seems like, and it feels like a dream. In her phrases:
We movie about 34 days a 12 months. That’s it. However six reveals a day. Come on… You can really feel dangerous for me.
Though White nonetheless probably works behind the scenes for greater than 34 days a 12 months, together with dealing with promos and/or making ready outfits, filming for simply 34 days of the 12 months actually is fairly unbelievable for anybody considered as a “TV star”, particularly contemplating what number of episodes air every season.
In fact, filming six half-hour reveals a day might be fairly draining, and people days are probably very lengthy, since it isn’t as if the eps are filmed in clean-cut 30-minute chunks, and contain numerous stops and begins. All that stated, nonetheless, filming for simply over a month whole feels like a heavenly gig, and it’s even higher understanding simply how a lot White is making along with her new contract.
Solely filming for 34 days out of the 12 months does truly make sense in relation to Seacrest’s internet hosting skills. The American Idol host acquired a little bit of flak for making errors in his first 12 months, in addition to for not doing issues precisely the best way Sajak did. However he is a busy man with a radio present and American Idol to host, amongst different issues.
Though he’s been filming six reveals a day, the prolonged hole between manufacturing and airdates seemingly would not give him a lot time to look again and consider his performances to gauge what he may attempt to enhance from present to indicate, which might be why it’s taken some time to get used to him.
It is unknown if this has all the time been the case for Wheel of Fortune, although it is lengthy been recognized that Jeopardy! movies a full week of 5 episodes on Mondays. It may not sound straightforward to viewers, however it actually appears to work. Even with all of the interviews, planning, and different duties that do not occur on show-taping slots, 34 days with an enormous wage can be fairly nice, no matter how lengthy the shifts are.
Wheel of Fortune doesn’t have an finish in sight, and for now, neither does Vanna White. It’d assist that she doesn’t movie for too many days, even when these days are so long as ever. Since there are dozens and dozens of episodes of Wheel of Fortune that air weekly for weeks on finish, it solely is smart that they movie all of them fairly shut collectively. And it feels like White doesn’t appear to thoughts, not less than not utterly.