Vanna White
Vanna White was born in Conway, South Carolina, United States on February 18th, 1957 and is the Game Show Host. At the age of 67, Vanna White biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, TV shows, and networth are available.
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Vanna White (born Vanna Marie Rosich; February 18, 1957) is an American television personality and film actress known as the hostess of Wheel of Fortune since 1982.
Early life
Vanna Marie Rosich was born on February 18, 1957, near North Myrtle Beach in Horry County, South Carolina, the daughter of Joan Marie (Nicholas) and Miguel Angel Rosich. Her parents divorced when she was an infant and she was raised by her mother, Joan, and stepfather, Herbert White Jr. (1925–2022), in North Myrtle Beach. White took the name of her stepfather, a former real estate broker. (On April 1, 2022, White announced, to an outpouring of support, that he had died peacefully that morning). After graduating from high school, White moved to Atlanta, Georgia, where she attended The Atlanta School of Fashion and Design and worked as a model. She headed to Los Angeles in 1979 to pursue an acting career. She spent the summer of 1980 back in South Carolina with her mother, who was dying of ovarian cancer.
Personal life
She was baptized a Baptist and identifies herself as a Christian. White dated Playgirl centerfold/Chippendales-dancer-turned-actor John Gibson in the 1980s, and they eventually became engaged. In 1986, Gibson was killed in a plane crash. White married restaurant owner George Santo Pietro in December 1990. White first became pregnant in September 1992, and announced her pregnancy on an episode of Wheel of Fortune where "Vanna's pregnant" was the answer to a puzzle. She miscarried shortly after the episode's taping. White later had a son, Nicholas (Niko), born in 1994 and a daughter, Giovanna (Gigi), born in 1997, from her marriage to Santo Pietro. The couple divorced in November 2002. From 2004 to 2006, she was engaged to Southern California businessman Michael Kaye. The two never wed. As of 2021 her partner is John Donaldson, who is a contractor. They started dating in 2012 after meeting each other through mutual friends.
In a conversation with Larry King, she indicated that her mother had told her that her 'uncle' was actor Christopher George. According to White, although George was not a biological relation of hers, her mother grew up with his family and, years later in Los Angeles, he and his wife took her under their wing. Also, in that same conversation, she said that her kids come to Wheel of Fortune tapings many times.
White is a patron of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, donating $1.8 million to the program and plans to continue her philanthropic works after her retirement from television.
Career
White was a contestant in the Miss Georgia USA 1978 pageant before appearing on television in 1980.
White's first appearance in a game show was on the 1980 edition of The Price Is Right, in which she was one of the first four contestants. She did not make it on stage, but the clip of her running to Contestants' Row on August 20, 1996, was rebroadcast as part of The Price Is Right 25th Anniversary Special, in which she appeared as a Guest Model during the program), as well as the special broadcast Game Show Moments Gone Bananas.
White appeared in a film that was not complete in 1980; the film was later edited and released in June 1990 as Gypsy Angels. She appeared in the film Looking for a Bit in 1981 and later appeared as Doris in the American slasher film Graduation Day, directed by Herb Freed and produced by Troma Entertainment.
Vanna Speaks, a 1987 autobiography, was a best-seller. She appeared in a Playboy pictorial in 1987, showcasing photographs of her before her Wheel of Fortune tenure as well as wearing see-through lingerie.
In 1988, she appeared in the NBC television film Goddess of Love, in which she played Venus; Betsy Palmer co-starred as Juno; it received 12% of the Audience Vote on Rotten Tomatoes.
She has appeared on television shows including L.A.'s 227, Super Mario Bros. Super Show, Simon and Simon, The King of Queens, Numerical Dragon, RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars, and films including Naked Gun 33+13 (1994) and Double Dragon (1994).
White appeared on Married...With Children, a gender-bending parody of the film Indecent Proposal, but Al Bundy had the Robert Redford role, while Al Bundy had Demi Moore. Throughout the evening for WrestleMania IV, she served as a guest timekeeper and conducted interviews from the backstage area. In 1996, she was the main narrator and singer in Leslie Bricusse's "Santa's Last Ride" on CD.
She was named on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on April 20, 2006, with Pat Sajak, Merv Griffin, and Alex Trebek as key witnesses.
White contributed to the Canadian animated television special The Real Story of Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star, and the American animated television series Captain Planet and the Planeteers.
In a special guest appearance on The Price Is Right 50 Years in September 2021, White presented a set of luggage.
White appeared as a special guest in RuPaul's Drag Race: All Stars' seventh season, where the contestants held a runway in honor of her previous appearances.
White was selected as one of three replacement hostesses (along with Vicki McCarty and Summer Bartholomew) to co-host the show after Wheel of Fortune hostes Susan Stafford left in October 1982. White became the regular hostess on December 13, 1982.
On November 8, 2019, Sony Pictures Television announced that White will briefly take over hosting Wheel of Fortune as MC for the week starting on December 9, 2019. The announcement was made after a taping day was postponed when Sajak was hospitalized with a blocked intestine and needed emergency surgery in order to clear it. The taping day was held on the White House and the following rescheduled taping day occurred the next day. During her shows hosting, guest letter activators were incorporated; during the Secret Santa Holiday Giveaway on December 9 and 16, Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse were available. The show went on hiatus during Christmas week (December 23, 2019), followed by a week of recently taped "America's Game" episodes (Wheel tapes six episodes per day), with each studio audience receiving three shows per day; the third show in the afternoon session is a "America's Game" episode) which Sajak hosted, before White returned to hosting on January 6, 2020 for a final week. Maggie Sajak's daughter Maggie was assisted by Pat Sajak Sajak returned to the show on December 5, 2019, with episodes slated beginning on January 13, 2020, after he fully recovered from his operation.
On ABC, Sajak and White hosted the Celebrity Wheel of Fortune since 2021. Later this year, it was revealed that both Sajak and White had agreed to continue as hosts of Wheel of Fortune from 2023 to 2024.
White likes flipping houses and invests in apartment buildings. She sold her Beverly Hills home for $47.5 million in 2017.
When White was five years old, her grandmother taught her how to crochet. She had lost interest in the hobby for many years until, on the Wheel of Fortune theme, she discovered that her pregnant hairdresser was crocheting a baby blanket for herself. White told her that she crocheted before and begged the hairdresser to help her relinquish crocheting. When she has downtime on the set, she often crochets, as she finds it very easy and has something to brace for the time she's been doing it.
On The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, White began her relationship with Lion Brand Yarns when she spoke about her love of crochet; the yarn company contacted her and agreed on a deal. Vanna's Choice is her own line of yarn, and she supports crochet and knitting books that are not available in her name.
White is known for her seamless revealing of letters on the game board, her smile, and her regular clapping in favor of each episode's contestants. On the May 24, 2013 episode of Wheel of Fortune, White was awarded a Guinness World Record for the most frequent clapper. She had clapped at least 3,480,864 times over the show's 30 seasons as of January 31, 2013. She appeared in only 10 of Wheel's 5,754 episodes to date, just 10 of which were broadcast on September 19, 1983. That works out to an average of 606 claps per show.