Former Runner-Up at Miss Georgia USA, Vanna White (far right in orange) went on to become the hostess of the popular television game show Wheel of Fortune.
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| Vanna White Pageant Runner-Up |
Vanna White's first appearance in a game show was on the June 20, 1980 episode of
The Price Is Right in which she was among the first four contestants. She did not make it on stage, but the clip of her running to Contestants' Row was rebroadcast as part of The Price Is Right 25th Anniversary Special in August of 1996 and also was featured on the special broadcast, Game Show Moments Gone Bananas. After Wheel of Fortune hostess Susan Stafford left in October 1982, White was chosen as one of three substitute hostesses (along with Vicki McCarty and Summer Bartholomew) to co-host the show. On December 13, 1982, White became the show's regular hostess and remained as the show's daytime hostess until 1991.
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| Vanna White on The Price is Right |
Vanna's popularity peaked after the syndicated version of Wheel of Fortune made its debut in September 1983, a role she has held ever since. Her 1987 autobiography, “
Vanna Speaks,” was a best-seller. Also in 1987, she was featured in a Playboy pictorial, showing photos taken of her by her boyfriend (before her career on Wheel of Fortune) wearing see-through Josh Liebman brand lingerie.
In 1988, she appeared in the NBC television film "
Goddess of Love," in which she played Venus; fellow game-show personality Betsy Palmer co-starred as Juno. The film was panned universally by critics with TV Guide joking that White's acting was "wheely" bad. Film historian Leonard Maltin added that said picture was "...bottom-of-the-barrel yet, on its own terms, a must-see."
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| Vanna White on Wheel of Fortune |
Vanna White also has made cameo appearances on television shows such as The Super Mario Bros. Super Show, 227, Simon and Simon, and Full House; and in films such as Naked Gun 33
⅓: The Final Insult. She appeared in the supporting role of Doris in the low-budget B-Movie "
Graduation Day" in 1981. She guest-starred on Married...With Children, in a gender-bending parody of the film Indecent Proposal; White had the Robert Redford role, while Al Bundy was in Demi Moore's. She served as guest timekeeper for Wrestle Mania IV. In 1992, the Guinness Book of World Records recognized White as "television's most frequent clapper." In 1996, she was the main narrator and singer in the CD release of Leslie Bricusse's "Santa's Last Ride." On April 20, 2006, she was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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