The “Wheel of Fortune” could stop spinning for Vanna White soon.
This week, longtime host Pat Sajak, 76, announced that he can be retiring from ABC’s hit game show after Season 41 in September – leaving co-host White, 66, with out a partner-in-crime.
But while some fans are calling for letter-turning White to interchange Sajak, she fears that she actually could possibly be let go from the series, in line with an insider.
“The following 12 months goes to be quite the ride and Vanna desires to be an element of all of it even after he leaves, and he or she hopes they don’t force her out,” a source near White alleged to the Every day Mail on Tuesday.
However the source also claimed that White has no real interest in leaving the show, which she joined in 1982 — a 12 months after Sajak did, in 1981 — and even has aspirations to grow to be Sajak 2.0.
“Vanna doesn’t want to go away ‘Wheel of Fortune’ even after Pat’s announcement of retirement, and he or she would highly consider taking up his role as host on the show,” the insider claimed.
The Post has reached out to White’s representatives for further comment.
The alleged insider even added that White is “in it for the long haul” and “would really like to be an element of the choice process for Pat’s alternative, because whether it is as much as her, she is in it perpetually.”
Her contract for the sport show ends in 2024, in line with the outlet.
But in line with Bloomberg, there are others within the running — including longtime “American Idol” host and former “Live With Kelly” seat-filler Ryan Seacrest.
In his announcement, Sajak said that his 4 a long time on the show have been a “wonderful ride.”
“Well, the time has come,” he wrote. “I’ve decided that our forty first season, which begins in September, might be my last. It’s been an exquisite ride, and I’ll have more to say in the approaching months. Many because of you all. (If nothing else, it’ll keep the clickbait sites busy!)”
White later gave a “cheers” to her longtime co-host following the news.
“After we began @WheelofFortune who could have imagined we’d still be at it 41 seasons later?” White wrote in a tweet on Tuesday.
“I couldn’t be happier to have shared the stage with you for all these years with yet another to return. Cheers to you, @patsajak!”
Nevertheless, in a 2020 interview with “CBS Sunday Morning,” White admitted that hosting the show wasn’t something that she was necessarily vying for.
White hosted the show for a couple of episodes in 2019, when Sajak went into surgery for a blocked intestine.
“Uhm, it’s not at the highest of my list,” White admitted during an interview with the outlet on the time.
“I loved being there, I loved doing it. But I used to be so nervous. Possibly if I did it a couple of more times, I might feel higher about it. But I’m my worst critic.”
