According to CNN.com, Pat Sajak, the longtime host of ‘Wheel of Fortune,’ would sometimes head out for drinks with Vanna White while on a break from taping.
As he explained in a recent interview on “Dan Le Batard is Highly Questionable,” when he first started—”and was much younger and could tolerate those things,” Sajak said—the show was slightly boring.
“We had a different show then. You didn’t win money, you won fake money with which you could buy cheesy prizes. A turntable would go around, and housewives from Teaneck would say, ‘Ah, for $100, I’ll have the lamp…” It was the most boring two minutes in television.”
All of those prizes allowed for “endless time between shows. Our dinner breaks would be two-and-a-half hours long while they drove in new cars and boats and gazebos and stuff.”
Rather than stick around the set, Sajak and Vanna White would head over to a spot across the street called Los Arcos in Burbank, where they served “great margaritas,” the game show host recalled.
“Vanna and I would go across [the street] and have two, or three or six. And then come and do the last shows and have trouble recognizing the alphabet,” he admitted. “The average number of drinks was ‘cuatro.'”
