On the planet of celebrity-dom, Vanna White exists on a singular pedestal, with extraordinarily few others in leisure on the identical degree. A fixture on the 2025 TV schedule, she’s been a recreation present icon for greater than 40 years, she prefaced that run with a Troma film, and was acknowledged in 2013 as a Guinness World Document holder for having clapped round 3.4 million instances in the course of the first 30 seasons. Vanna’s a residing legend, however even she will get starstruck every now and then.
Having appeared on roughly 8,000 Wheel of Fortune episodes at this level, with a few of these being the Movie star spinoff (the place Pat Sajak continues to be host for now), White is clearly no stranger to assembly and chatting up well-known of us from all walks of life, so it maybe is sensible that the superstars who left her most agog additionally boasted quite a lot of abilities. Talking with Nearer Weekly, she shared this when addressing her favourite celeb encounters:
I used to be starstruck by Stevie Marvel. I used to be sitting within the make-up chair, and he walked into the room. And I simply was like, ‘Wow, it’s Stevie Marvel.’
It is unclear the place this wonderful brush with greatness (for the each of them) would have taken place, as I do not consider Stevie Marvel was ever a correct contestant on Wheel of Fortune, and so far as I do know, she’s by no means sang on a duet with him. (She does have a Christmas album, nevertheless, which Ryan Seacrest utilized in a cute prank over the vacations.)
Vanna White shared one other pair of celebs that left her awestruck, and each communicate to her aw-shucks nature. As she put it:
And one other one was Mr. Rogers — he was the sweetest, sweetest man. And yet one more. It was Mickey Mantle.
One would not even must care about baseball within the slightest to know the significance of assembly Corridor-of-Famer Mickey Mantle, one of the vital celebrated athletes of all time.
Simply as inspirational, albeit in different methods, is Fred Rogers of Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood fame, who stays a beacon of understanding and politeness even years after his demise.
Having witnessed so many hundreds of contestants come and go by way of the Wheel of Fortune stage, Vanna White is conscious of simply how nervous many individuals get with regard to showing on TV, and she or he revealed that she commonly presents up mini-pep talks to incoming gamers as she will get to work. And that sounds precisely just like the sort of factor somebody starstruck by Mr. Rogers would do.
To have Vanna share the recommendation with me to “purchase vowels,” I’d lose my d_amn_d thoughts. Beneath, followers can see Pat and Vanna reminiscing about having Mr. Rogers on the present when it taped in his hometown of Pittsburgh.
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One can solely guess how many individuals have been starstruck by seeing Vanna White in particular person throughout a Wheel of Fortune taping, realizing that no matter attractive gown she’s sporting received’t ever be duplicated in one other episode, even when she does put on the identical sneakers once in a while.
Wheel of Fortune airs weeknights in syndication.