{"id":12229,"date":"2026-07-21T23:01:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T23:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/realtimebuzz.com\/?p=12229"},"modified":"2026-07-21T23:01:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T23:01:21","slug":"pat-sajak-leaves-wheel-of-fortune-fans-heartbroken-after-his-retirement-news-on-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/realtimebuzz.com\/?p=12229","title":{"rendered":"Pat Sajak Leaves \u2018Wheel of Fortune\u2019 Fans Heartbroken After His Retirement News on Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Grab your tissues, folks. After more than four decades on television,&nbsp;<strong>Pat Sajak<\/strong>&nbsp;revealed he is officially retiring from hosting&nbsp;Wheel of Fortune.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The longtime game show personality shocked fans on June 12 when he posted the surprise announcement&nbsp;on Twitter. In the tweet, which quickly went viral on the social media platform, Pat shared his plans to leave after the 2023-2024 season set to begin later this fall. The moment is also significant for him, as it will mark the end of his hosting&nbsp;<em>Wheel of Fortune<\/em>&nbsp;after joining in 1981.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is how he looks now<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"80\" height=\"80\" src=\"https:\/\/realtimebuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/signal-2026-01-09-024205-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7478\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grab your tissues, folks. After more than four decades on television,&nbsp;Pat Sajak&nbsp;revealed he is officially retiring from hosting&nbsp;Wheel of Fortune. The longtime game show personality shocked fans&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7478,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/realtimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/realtimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/realtimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/realtimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/realtimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12229"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/realtimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12230,"href":"https:\/\/realtimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12229\/revisions\/12230"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/realtimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/realtimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/realtimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/realtimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}