"If I wouldn't have left 'Wheel of Fortune,' I'd be making about $10 million a year now," Woolery recalled in a 2003 ...

However, Pat Sajak was ultimately given the hosting role following Woolery's departure in 1981 over a contract dispute.

Chuck Woolery, the game show veteran who was the original host of "Wheel of Fortune" and went on to host "Love Connection," ...

Before longtime game-show host Chuck Woolery started his decades-long career on television, he served in the U.S. Navy aboard ...

Chuck Woolery, original host of Wheel of Fortune, has died at the age of 83, leaving behind wife Kim Barnes, three kids and a ...

Chuck Woolery, the veteran game show host who gained fame as the original emcee behind “Wheel of Fortune” and later as the ...

Chuck Woolery, the affable, smooth-talking game show host of “Wheel of Fortune,” “Love Connection” and “Scrabble” who later ...

Chuck Woolery, who died on Nov. 23 at age 83, is possibly best known as the original host of the popular TV gameshow Wheel of Fortune. However, the hosting gig was eventually given to Pat Sajak ...

Griffin balked and replaced Woolery with weather reporter Pat Sajak. “Both Chuck and Susie did a fine job, and ‘Wheel’ did well enough on NBC, although it never approached the kind of ...