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Chuck Woolery, who hosted the famous dating program Love Connection for 11 years and was the first presenter of Wheel of Fortune, has away. He was eighty-three.
On Sunday, November 24, Woolery passed away at his Texas home, according to an email sent to AP by his buddy Mark Young, who cohosted the “Blunt Force Truth” podcast with him. He was accompanied by his wife, Kristen.
“Life will not be the same without Chuck; he was a tremendous man of faith and a dear friend and brother,” Young told the site.
“It is with a broken heart that I tell you that my dear brother @chuckwoolery has just passed away,” he said in a post on X.
Without him, life won’t be the same. “Rest in peace, brother,” and a number of pictures of him and Woolery together.
Young claimed to have been at Woolery’s Texas home when Woolery indicated he wasn’t feeling well and wanted to lay down, according to a TMZ story.
He returned a few moments later and complained of breathing difficulties. Young said that although Woolery didn’t arrive, 911 was contacted. Woolery, a native of Kentucky who served in the U.S.
Navy, first intended to pursue a career in music. In 1967, he founded the psychedelic rock group The Avant Garde, who released the Top 40 hit song “Naturally Stoned.
” Following the breakup of the partnership, he released a number of solo singles and transitioned into country music, writing songs for celebrities like Tammy Wynette in addition to himself.
Woolery was the first host of Wheel of Fortune, where he started his television career in 1975 and stayed for a number of years till Pat Sajak took.
His post due to a pay disagreement. He started hosting what would become his hallmark program, Love Connection, in 1983.
It was a popular dating show that matched a single person with three possible suitors, who then told the audience about their dates. He concurrently hosted Scrabble in 1984.
He hosted The Chuck Woolery program, a brief discussion program that ran from 1991 to 1992. presented a relaunch of The Dating Game after Love Connection ended in 1994.
Later, he hosted Greed and Lingo and appeared in other television programs, such as Melrose Place, where he played himself in two episodes.
Woolery received a 1978 daytime Emmy nomination and was recognized into the American TV Game Show Hall of Fame in 2007.