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Occupation
  
Television host

Role
  
Game Show Host

Name
  
Chuck Woolery


Website
  
www.chuckwoolery.com

Years active
  
1969–present

Siblings
  
Sue Woolery

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Full Name
  
Charles Herbert Woolery

Born
  
March 16, 1941 (age 83) (
1941-03-16
)

Spouse
  
Kim Woolery (m. 2006), Teri Nelson (m. 1985–2004), Jo Ann Pflug (m. 1972–1980), Margaret Hays (m. 1961–1971)

Parents
  
Katherine Woolery, Dan Woolery

Children
  
Michael Woolery, Melissa Woolery, Sean Woolery, Katharine Woolery, Chad Woolery, Cary Woolery

TV shows
  
Love Connection, Wheel of Fortune, Lingo, Scrabble, The Dating Game

Similar People
  
Jo Ann Pflug, Bob Eubanks, Pat Sajak, Susan Stafford, Wink Martindale

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Charles Herbert "Chuck" Woolery (born March 16, 1941) is an American game show host, talk show host, and musician. He has had long-running tenures hosting several different game shows. Woolery was the original host of Wheel of Fortune (1975–81), the original incarnation of Love Connection (1983–94), Scrabble (1984–90, and during a brief revival in 1993), and Lingo on GSN from 2002 to 2007.

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Early life and family

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Woolery was born in Ashland, Kentucky.

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After graduating from high school, he served two years in the U.S. Navy.

Career

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In 1963, Woolery worked as a wine consultant for Wasserstrom Wine & Import Company in Columbus, Ohio. He was also a sales representative for the Pillsbury Company.

Music

In the early 1960s he sang and played the bass fiddle with a folk song trio called The Bordermen. He also sang in a duo called The Avant-Garde who were in the psychedelic pop genre. The other half of the duo was Elkin "Bubba" Fowler. They signed to Columbia Records and achieved a Top 40 hit with "Naturally Stoned" in 1968, bringing the duo one-hit wonder status. During this time he worked as a truck driver to supplement his income. They released three singles.

As a solo artist he released five records with Columbia. After 1970 he signed with RCA and released "Forgive My Heart." In 1971, another single "Love Me, Love Me" failed to make any impact. He then turned to acting.

In the late 1970s, he returned to his singing career. Woolery charted on Hot Country Songs with "Painted Lady" and "The Greatest Love Affair". Between 1977 and 1980, Woolery recorded for Warner Bros. Records and Epic Records as a solo artist, with two low-charting singles on Hot Country Songs.

Acting and hosting

As an actor, he has appeared with Stephen Boyd, Rosey Grier and Cheryl Ladd in the mid-1970s film Evil in the Deep. He appeared as himself in the 1989 film Cold Feet that starred Keith Carradine and Rip Torn.

Woolery performed as Mr. Dingle on the children's television series New Zoo Revue in the early 1970s. During that time, he made his first game show appearance on an episode of Tattletales, alongside then-wife Jo Ann Pflug. Starting as a singer, Woolery appeared on an episode of Your Hit Parade. On January 6, 1975, he began hosting Wheel of Fortune at the suggestion of creator Merv Griffin, who had seen Woolery sing on The Tonight Show. Woolery hosted the show for six years. In 1981, he was involved in a salary dispute with the program's producers; he said in a 2007 interview that he demanded a raise from $65,000 a year to about $500,000 a year because the program was drawing a 44 share at the time, and other hosts were making that much. Griffin offered Woolery $400,000 a year, and NBC offered to pay the additional $100,000, but after Griffin threatened to move the program to CBS, NBC withdrew the offer. Woolery's contract was not renewed and his final episode aired on December 25, 1981. Pat Sajak replaced him.

Woolery hosted Love Connection (1983–94), The Big Spin (1985), Scrabble (1984–90, 1993), The Home and Family Show (1996–98, co-host), The Dating Game (1997–99), Greed (1999–2000), and Lingo (2002–07). In addition, he was the subject of a short-lived reality show, Chuck Woolery: Naturally Stoned (originally titled Chuck Woolery: Behind the Lingo) in 2003. He also hosted his own talk show, The Chuck Woolery Show, which lasted for only a few months in 1991. He hosted The Price Is Right Live! at Harrah's casinos, and appeared in the live stage show "$250,000 Game Show Spectacular" at the Las Vegas Hilton until April 2008.

Since 2012, Woolery has hosted a nationally syndicated radio commentary show, Save Us, Chuck Woolery, which grew out of his YouTube videos. After two years as host, Woolery began a long-format podcast, Blunt Force Truth. With co-host Mark Young, Woolery expands on his political ideals and current events, often inviting guest experts to join the conversation.

Political views

Woolery is politically libertarian conservative, and he has spoken publicly in favor of conservative political opinions. He is an active supporter of the Republican Party, and has mainly donated to Republican and conservative causes. He occasionally writes political editorials, which are syndicated and appear in such publications as The Washington Times and Newsmax.

Woolery was accused of antisemitism after a series of tweets made in May 2017 linking Jews with communism. Earlier in the same year, Woolery had what Salon magazine described as a "Twitter meltdown" over Islam.

Woolery promoted on Twitter the conspiracy theory that Seth Rich's murder was connected to the Democratic National Committee leaks.

Personal life

Woolery is a Christian and volunteers in ministry. He is politically conservative and a gun rights activist.

Woolery and his first wife, Margaret Hays, had two children together: Katherine and Chad. Chad was killed in a motorcycle accident in January 1986.

In 1972, he married actress Jo Ann Pflug, which ended in divorce. They had a daughter together, Melissa.

With Teri Nelson, the adopted daughter of actor David Nelson (and granddaughter of Ozzie and Harriet Nelson), he has two sons, Michael and Sean. The marriage ended not long after rumors of Nelson's infidelity were made public in 2003.

Woolery married Kim Barnes in 2006.

References

Chuck Woolery Wikipedia