“Two or three or six drinks” as Pat Sajak Says He Was Drunk on ‘Wheel of Fortune’
Yeah so I have to admit I was drunk one time on the air in my college radio days. OK maybe a few more times but those days as a teenager were, well those days as a teenager.
Not like an adult as Pat Sajak and Vanna White were when they were a little blitzed on the air after downing a few cocktails at a close by Mexican restaurant where the top rated syndicated show Wheel of Fortune was taped.
He was drunk. Yeah drunk.
So back to my early radio days in college. There was a bar down the street in the Temple University neighborhood. I was the black guy that would take a bunch of white people to a ghetto neighborhood bar to get a bit plastered. They never asked for ID to confirm that we were of age which was a good thing. Cause we all would have been arrested.
But we weren’t. So before we did the 5PM one hour news report, we were a bit tipsy before we went on the air. And we were perfect in our style and delivery. I really think some days alcohol does effect you positively when you just don’t give a hoot about what you’re doing in front of a mike.
But on Wheel of Fortune?
Show producer Harry Friedman must have crapped in his pants when he read this story.
During dinner breaks Pat and Vanna would go down the street to a Mexican restaurant and have a few margaritas before returning to finish taping Wheel of Fortune. “Vanna and I would go across the street and have two or three or six,” margaritas said Sajak in an interview with ESPN which is the sports network for drunks. So Pat fits right in with that sports network. He also said they “would have trouble recognizing the alphabet” when doing the show trashed.
Wow!
“I have no idea if the shows were any good,” said Sajak. Watch the interview.
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