Pat Sajak
Pat Sajak (born October 26, 1946) is the current host of the Wheel of Fortune game show.
Early Life
Sajak was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois. During his elementary years, he attended Goethe elementary school and Gary elementary school. As he matured, he graduated from elementary school and went on to Farragut high school and Columbia college.
Career
Sajak won a (random) contest on WLS radio's Dick Biondi Show to be a guest "teen deejay. While at Columbia college, his broadcasting instructor told him that a local radio station (AM. In 1968, Sajak joined the U.S. Army, and was sent to Vietnam. Later in 1977, KNBC-TV in Los Angeles was looking for a weatherman, and spotted Sajak in Nashville who accepted their request for him to be a full-time weatherman for the station. Finally, in 1981, Merv Griffin, the designer of Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune, called in and asked if Sajak would be interested in taking over for Chuck Woolery. Sajak accepted, and still hosts the show to date. In addition, he had a talk show on CBS that failed miserably. In 1997, as part of an April Fool's joke, Sajak hosted an episode of Jeopardy! and became a contestant (along with cohost Vanna White) on Wheel of Fortune, which was being hosted by Jeopardy!'s Alex Trebek on that day. Sajak is an External Director of the right-wing publishing house,
