{"id":129800,"date":"2024-11-25T05:49:44","date_gmt":"2024-11-24T22:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=129800"},"modified":"2024-11-25T05:49:44","modified_gmt":"2024-11-24T22:49:44","slug":"chuck-woolery-game-show-host-of-love-connection-and-scrabble-dies-at-83-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=129800","title":{"rendered":"Chuck Woolery, game show host of \u2018Love Connection\u2019 and \u2018Scrabble,\u2019 dies at 83 : NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"storytext\">\n<div id=\"resg-s1-35650\" class=\"bucketwrap image large\">\n<div class=\"imagewrap has-source-dimensions\" data-crop-type=\"\" style=\"&#10;        --source-width: 980;&#10;        --source-height: 653;&#10;    \">\n        <picture><source srcset=\"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/980x653+0+0\/resize\/1100\/quality\/85\/format\/webp\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fa0%2F45%2F75f15b1e4cc0bfa303cc881fed8e%2Fwoolery.jpg\" class=\"img\" type=\"image\/webp\" data-template=\"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/980x653+0+0\/resize\/{width}\/quality\/{quality}\/format\/{format}\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fa0%2F45%2F75f15b1e4cc0bfa303cc881fed8e%2Fwoolery.jpg\" data-format=\"webp\"\/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/980x653+0+0\/resize\/1100\/quality\/85\/format\/jpeg\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fa0%2F45%2F75f15b1e4cc0bfa303cc881fed8e%2Fwoolery.jpg\" class=\"img\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" data-template=\"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/980x653+0+0\/resize\/{width}\/quality\/{quality}\/format\/{format}\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fa0%2F45%2F75f15b1e4cc0bfa303cc881fed8e%2Fwoolery.jpg\" data-format=\"jpeg\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/980x653+0+0\/resize\/1100\/quality\/85\/format\/jpeg\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fa0%2F45%2F75f15b1e4cc0bfa303cc881fed8e%2Fwoolery.jpg\" class=\"img\" alt=\"Chuck Woolery hosts a special premiere of the &quot;$250,000 Game Show Spectacular\u201d at the Las Vegas Hilton on Oct. 13, 2007, in Las Vegas.\" data-template=\"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/980x653+0+0\/resize\/{width}\/quality\/{quality}\/format\/{format}\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fa0%2F45%2F75f15b1e4cc0bfa303cc881fed8e%2Fwoolery.jpg\" data-format=\"jpeg\"\/>\n        <\/picture>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"credit-caption\">\n<div class=\"caption-wrap\">\n<div class=\"caption\" aria-label=\"Image caption\">\n<p>\n                Chuck Woolery hosts a special premiere of the &#8220;$250,000 Game Show Spectacular&#8221; at the Las Vegas Hilton on Oct. 13, 2007, in Las Vegas.<br \/>\n                <b class=\"credit\" aria-label=\"Image credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                    Ronda Churchill\/Las Vegas Review-Journal via AP<\/p>\n<p>                <\/b><br \/>\n                <b class=\"hide-caption\"><b>hide caption<\/b><\/b>\n            <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>            <b class=\"toggle-caption\"><b>toggle caption<\/b><\/b>\n    <\/div>\n<p>    <span class=\"credit\" aria-label=\"Image credit\"><\/p>\n<p>        Ronda Churchill\/Las Vegas Review-Journal via AP<\/p>\n<p>    <\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>NEW YORK \u2014 Chuck Woolery, the affable, smooth-talking game show host of &#8220;Wheel of Fortune,&#8221; &#8220;Love Connection&#8221; and &#8220;Scrabble&#8221; who later became a right-wing podcaster, skewering liberals and accusing the government of lying about COVID-19, has died. He was 83.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Young, Woolery&#8217;s podcast co-host and friend, said in an email early Sunday that Woolery died at his home in Texas with his wife, Kristen, present. &#8220;Chuck was a dear friend and brother and a tremendous man of faith, life will not be the same without him,&#8221; Young wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Woolery, with his matinee idol looks, coiffed hair and ease with witty banter, was inducted into the American TV Game Show Hall of Fame in 2007 and earned a daytime Emmy nomination in 1978.<\/p>\n<aside id=\"ad-backstage-wrap\" class=\"ad-wrap backstage\" aria-label=\"advertisement\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>In 1983, Woolery began an 11-year run as host of TV&#8217;s &#8220;Love Connection,&#8221; for which he coined the phrase, &#8220;We&#8217;ll be back in two minutes and two seconds,&#8221; a two-fingered signature dubbed the &#8220;2 and 2.&#8221; In 1984, he hosted TV&#8217;s &#8220;Scrabble,&#8221; simultaneously hosting two game shows on TV until 1990.<\/p>\n<div id=\"resnx-s1-5204487-100\" class=\"bucketwrap internallink insettwocolumn inset2col \">\n<div class=\"bucket img\">\n                  <a class=\"imagewrap\" id=\"featuredStackSquareImagenx-s1-4973742\" href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2024\/06\/06\/nx-s1-4973742\/pat-sajak-wheel-of-fortune-last-episode\" data-metrics-ga4=\"{&quot;category&quot;:&quot;recirculation&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:&quot;story_recirculation_click&quot;,&quot;clickType&quot;:&quot;inset box&quot;,&quot;clickUrl&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.npr.org\\\/2024\\\/06\\\/06\\\/nx-s1-4973742\\\/pat-sajak-wheel-of-fortune-last-episode&quot;}\"><picture><source srcset=\"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/1568x1569+302+1006\/resize\/100\/quality\/15\/format\/jpeg\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F03%2F29%2F533bdaf74137bb1b7e47c5edf9cd%2Fteachers39setup-030d.jpg\" data-original=\"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/1568x1569+302+1006\/resize\/100\/quality\/100\/format\/jpeg\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F03%2F29%2F533bdaf74137bb1b7e47c5edf9cd%2Fteachers39setup-030d.jpg\" data-template=\"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/1568x1569+302+1006\/resize\/{width}\/quality\/{quality}\/format\/{format}\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F03%2F29%2F533bdaf74137bb1b7e47c5edf9cd%2Fteachers39setup-030d.jpg\" data-format=\"webp\" class=\"img lazyOnLoad\" type=\"image\/webp\"\/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/1568x1569+302+1006\/resize\/100\/quality\/15\/format\/jpeg\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F03%2F29%2F533bdaf74137bb1b7e47c5edf9cd%2Fteachers39setup-030d.jpg\" data-original=\"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/1568x1569+302+1006\/resize\/100\/quality\/100\/format\/jpeg\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F03%2F29%2F533bdaf74137bb1b7e47c5edf9cd%2Fteachers39setup-030d.jpg\" data-template=\"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/1568x1569+302+1006\/resize\/{width}\/quality\/{quality}\/format\/{format}\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F03%2F29%2F533bdaf74137bb1b7e47c5edf9cd%2Fteachers39setup-030d.jpg\" data-format=\"jpeg\" class=\"img lazyOnLoad\" type=\"image\/jpeg\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/1568x1569+302+1006\/resize\/100\/quality\/100\/format\/jpeg\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F03%2F29%2F533bdaf74137bb1b7e47c5edf9cd%2Fteachers39setup-030d.jpg\" data-template=\"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/1568x1569+302+1006\/resize\/{width}\/quality\/{quality}\/format\/{format}\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F03%2F29%2F533bdaf74137bb1b7e47c5edf9cd%2Fteachers39setup-030d.jpg\" data-format=\"jpeg\" class=\"img lazyOnLoad\" alt=\"Pat Sajak on the Wheel of Fortune set.\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/picture><\/a>         <\/p>\n<p><!-- END CLASS=\"BUCKETBLOCK\" -->\n      <\/div>\n<p><!-- END CLASS=\"BUCKET IMG\" -->\n   <\/div>\n<p><!-- END ID=\"RESNX-S1-5204487-100\" CLASS=\"BUCKETWRAP INTERNALLINK INSETTWOCOLUMN INSET2COL \" --><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Love Connection,&#8221; which aired long before the dawn of dating apps, had a premise that featured either a single man or single woman who would watch audition tapes of three potential mates and then pick one for a date.<\/p>\n<p>A couple of weeks after the date, the guest would sit with Woolery in front of a studio audience and tell everybody about the date. The audience would vote on the three contestants, and if the audience agreed with the guest&#8217;s choice, &#8220;Love Connection&#8221; would offer to pay for a second date.<\/p>\n<p>Woolery told The Philadelphia Inquirer in 2003 that his favorite set of lovebirds was a man aged 91 and a woman aged 87. &#8220;She had so much eye makeup on, she looked like a stolen Corvette. He was so old he said, &#8216;I remember wagon trains.&#8217; The poor guy. She took him on a balloon ride.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Other career highlights included hosting the shows &#8220;Lingo,&#8221; &#8220;Greed&#8221; and &#8220;The Chuck Woolery Show,&#8221; as well as hosting the short-lived syndicated revival of &#8220;The Dating Game&#8221; from 1998 to 2000 and an ill-fated 1991 talk show. In 1992, he played himself in two episodes of TV&#8217;s &#8220;Melrose Place.&#8221;<\/p>\n<aside id=\"ad-secondary-wrap\" class=\"ad-wrap secondary\" aria-label=\"advertisement\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Woolery became the subject of the Game Show Network&#8217;s first attempt at a reality show, &#8220;Chuck Woolery: Naturally Stoned,&#8221; which premiered in 2003. It shared the title of the pop song in 1968 by Woolery and his rock group, the Avant-Garde. It lasted six episode and was panned by critics.<\/p>\n<p>Woolery began his TV career at a show that has become a mainstay. Although most associated with Pat Sajak and Vanna White, &#8220;Wheel of Fortune&#8221; debuted Jan. 6, 1975, on NBC with Woolery welcoming contestants and the audience. Woolery, then 33, was trying to make it in Nashville as a singer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Wheel of Fortune&#8221; started life as &#8220;Shopper&#8217;s Bazaar,&#8221; incorporating Hangman-style puzzles and a roulette wheel. After Woolery appeared on &#8220;The Merv Griffin Show&#8221; singing &#8220;Delta Dawn,&#8221; Merv Griffin asked him to host the new show with Susan Stafford.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I had an interview that stretched to 15, 20 minutes,&#8221; Woolery told The New York Times in 2003. &#8220;After the show, when Merv asked if I wanted to do a game show, I thought, &#8216;Great, a guy with a bad jacket and an equally bad mustache who doesn&#8217;t care what you have to say \u2014 that&#8217;s the guy I want to be.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>NBC initially passed, but they retooled it as &#8220;Wheel of Fortune&#8221; and got the green light. After a few years, Woolery demanded a raise to $500,000 a year, or what host Peter Marshall was making on &#8220;Hollywood Squares.&#8221; Griffin balked and replaced Woolery with weather reporter Pat Sajak.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Both Chuck and Susie did a fine job, and &#8216;Wheel&#8217; did well enough on NBC, although it never approached the kind of ratings success that &#8216;Jeopardy!&#8217; achieved in its heyday,&#8221; Griffin said in &#8220;Merv: Making the Good Life Last,&#8221; an autobiography from the 2000s co-written by David Bender. Woolery earned an Emmy nod as host.<\/p>\n<p>Born in Ashland, Kentucky, Woolery served in the U.S. Navy before attending college. He played double bass in a folk trio, then formed the psychedelic rock duo The Avant-Garde in 1967 while working as a truck driver to support himself as a musician.<\/p>\n<aside id=\"ad-third-wrap\" class=\"ad-wrap third\" aria-label=\"advertisement\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>The Avant-Garde, which tourbed in a refitted Cadillac hearse, had the Top 40 hit &#8220;Naturally Stoned,&#8221; with Woolery singing, &#8220;When I put my mind on you alone\/I can get a good sensation\/Feel like I&#8217;m naturally stoned.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After The Avant-Garde broke up, Woolery released his debut solo single &#8220;I&#8217;ve Been Wrong&#8221; in 1969 and several more singles with Columbia before transitioning to country music by the 1970s. He released two solo singles, &#8220;Forgive My Heart&#8221; and &#8220;Love Me, Love Me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Woolery wrote or co-wrote songs for himself and everyone from Pat Boone to Tammy Wynette. On Wynette&#8217;s 1971 album &#8220;We Sure Can Love Each Other,&#8221; Woolery wrote &#8220;The Joys of Being a Woman&#8221; with lyrics including &#8220;See our baby on the swing\/Hear her laugh, hear her scream.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After his TV career ended, Woolery went into podcasting. In an interview with The New York Times, he called himself a gun-rights activist and described himself as a conservative libertarian and constitutionalist. He said he hadn&#8217;t revealed his politics in liberal Hollywood for fear of retribution.<\/p>\n<p>He teamed up with Mark Young in 2014 for the podcast &#8220;Blunt Force Truth&#8221; and soon became a full supporter of Donald Trump while arguing minorities don&#8217;t need civil rights and causing a firestorm by tweeting an antisemitic comment linking Soviet Communists to Judaism.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;President Obama&#8217;s popularity is a fantasy only held by him and his dwindling legion of juice-box-drinking, anxiety-dog-hugging, safe-space-hiding snowflakes,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Woolery also was active online, retweeting articles from Conservative Brief, insisting Democrats were trying to install a system of Marxism and spreading headlines such as &#8220;Impeach him! Devastating photo of Joe Biden leaks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>During the early stages of the pandemic, Woolery initially accused medical professionals and Democrats of lying about the virus in an effort to hurt the economy and Trump&#8217;s chances for reelection to the presidency.<\/p>\n<aside id=\"ad-overflow-3-wrap\" class=\"ad-wrap overflow\" aria-label=\"advertisement\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>&#8220;The most outrageous lies are the ones about COVID-19. Everyone is lying. The CDC, media, Democrats, our doctors, not all but most, that we are told to trust. I think it&#8217;s all about the election and keeping the economy from coming back, which is about the election. I&#8217;m sick of it,&#8221; Woolery wrote in July 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Trump retweeted that post to his 83 million followers. By the end of the month, nearly 4.5 million Americans had been infected with COVID-19 and more than 150,000 had died.<\/p>\n<p>Just days later, Woolery changed his stance, announcing his son had contracted COVID-19. &#8220;To further clarify and add perspective, COVID-19 is real and it is here. My son tested positive for the virus, and I feel for of those suffering and especially for those who have lost loved ones,&#8221; Woolery posted before his account was deleted.<\/p>\n<p>Woolery later explained on his podcast that he never called COVID-19 &#8220;a hoax&#8221; or said &#8220;it&#8217;s not real,&#8221; just that &#8220;we&#8217;ve been lied to.&#8221; Woolery also said it was &#8220;an honor to have your president retweet what your thoughts are and think it&#8217;s important enough to do that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In addition to his wife, Woolery is survived by his sons Michael and Sean and his daughter Melissa, Young said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2024\/11\/24\/nx-s1-5204487\/chuck-woolery-game-show-host-love-connection-scrabble-dies\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chuck Woolery hosts a special premiere of the &#8220;$250,000 Game Show Spectacular&#8221; at the Las Vegas Hilton on Oct. 13, 2007, in Las Vegas. 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