Additionally Jason Gunn officially announced that his co-host Sonia Gray was pregnant with twins and that she would return to co-host the show after her pregnancy. At the conclusion of filming of the 2008 season TVNZ announced the show will return in 2009 bigger and better. The show returned with new hosts Jason Gunn and Sonia Gray. On 14 April 2008 the New Zealand version of Wheel of Fortune returned again to TVNZ channel TV ONE. After moving to TV2 in a 6:00pm time slot the show was ultimately axed in 1996 as the show could not compete with the 6pm news shows on TV ONE and TV3. During its time the show aired on various time slots and switched between TV ONE and TV2 at the show's peak it aired in prime time on TV ONE at 7:00pm, a time slot previously used to screen Sale of the Century, but moved off this slot in 1995 when TV ONE extended their news to a one-hour show followed by Holmes. The show was later hosted by Simon Barnett. The show, which was heavily modeled after Australia's version, was originally hosted by Phillip Leishman with co-host Lana Coc-Kroft, along with Grant Walker (also doing New Zealand's version of Sale of the Century at the time) as announcer. He joked: 'That's all I want, but she won't come on because she found out you can't win an Oscar for this.'Ĭontestants solve word puzzles to win a large sum of cash and prizes determined by spinning a giant carnival wheel.The original New Zealand version of the popular American game show Wheel of Fortune was first broadcast in February 1991, on TVNZ channel TV2, at 5:30pm. He said: 'I'm still pulling for Meryl Streep 'cause I wanna see her say, 'Come on, big money!'' Pat also hosted a celebrity spin-off of the popular competition, where famous faces compete to win up to $1 million for their chosen charity.Īnd one A-lister he hoped to get on the show was Hollywood actress Meryl Streep.

“It’s an honour to have been in people’s living rooms for that long. We’re not gonna do this for another 40 years. Pat told 'Entertainment Tonight' last year: “In most television shows by this time, you would have said, ‘That’s probably enough,’ but this show will not die. Retirement had been on the cards for a while. “It’s been a wonderful ride, and I’ll have more to say in the coming months. I’ve decided that our 41st season, which begins in September, will be my last. He announced on Twitter: “Well, the time has come. The 76-year-old host has presented the game show for just over four decades, having taken over from Chuck Woolery in 1981.

Pat Sajak has announced his retirement from 'Wheel of Fortune'.

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