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Patrick Sajak is an actor and American personality most notably known as the game host for Wheel of Fortune.

Born on October 26 in the year 1946, to his mother Joyce Brandecki and a father of Polish ancestry, Leonard Anthony Sajak, a factory worker. Patrick Leonard Sajak was born in Chicago, Illinois USA and spent most of his childhood there. Patrick has a younger brother by the name of David and a step-Father by the name of Walter Backal from whom he has his stepbrother William Backal.

At an early age, Patrick would run around pretending to broadcast on a wooden spoon. In the 60’s Patrick found himself airing in his hometown on a Spanish radio station despite not knowing a single word in the foreign language. Thankfully, his job was to offer English news briefing hourly from midnight until six.

Graduating from the Farragut High School in the year 1964, Patrick then went on to college at Columbia College Chicago while working as a desk Clerk at the hotel Palmer House. All Patrick thought of was becoming a DJ, his career as a host honestly started when he won a contest on WLS radio’s Dick Biondi Show to be a guest teen DJ for a day. While still a student at Columbia College Chicago, Al Parker, his broadcasting instructor, informed him that Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation (WEDC) was looking for a reporter and Patrick took the job working from midnight to six am.

During the Vietnam War, in 1968 following his enlistment, he served as a disk Jockey (DJ) while in uniform for the American Forces Vietnam Network, never actually having fought on the battlefield. Hosting the same radio show as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Cronauer">Adrian Cronauer</a>, a United States Air Force Sergeant and radio talk show host, for 14 months he too started up every morning with the coined “Good Morning Vietnam!”

After being in Saigon for 18 months, he as then assigned to a military base in Texas. Patrick found himself in the Pentagon running slide projectors for military officials. He admits he probably heard high-level secrets but most of what he did hear had to do was over the pending postal strike.

Following this, in the early 1970’s Patrick DJ’d for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray,_Kentucky">Murray</a>, Kentucky radio station for a year and 50,000 watts WSM in Nashville. During this time WSM was playing pop music during the morning hours, and his slot was from 3-5 pm just shortly after. WSM-TV brought Patrick on screen for the first time as a voiceover by making station identification and anchoring five minute newscasts during NBC’s Today Show as well as a substitute and weekend slot weatherman. It was here that he first became acquainted with anchor Dan Miller.

In 1977 Patrick was working in Nashville and was then approached by Los Angeles’ KNBC-TV. Offering him the position of weatherman for their station, Patrick all too gladly accepted. A few years later after being offered his position, in 1981, Patrick was then again offered a position at a better job. This time it was a media tycoon, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merv_Griffin">Merv Griffin</a> wanted him to take over the hosting of his popular game show to replace departing <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Woolery">Chuck Woolery</a>.

Despite his willingness to captain The Wheel of Fortune, Patrick was resisted by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Silverman">Fred Silverman</a> who was the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Silverman">President</a> and CEO of NBC at the time. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Silverman">Silverman</a> believed Patrick wasn’t the right man for the job. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merv_Griffin">Griffin</a> was resorting to harsh methods threatening to shut down the show if they did not comply with his request and not all too surprising, they listened.

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Patrick was hired in 1983 by the new <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandon_Tartikoff">CEO</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandon_Tartikoff">Brandon Tartikoff</a> to host the game show Wheel Of Fortune. He continued hosting the game show from 1983 to 1989 and then went on to host its second version also in 2010. Due to Patrick’s deal with the company whether the show did well or not, he was to be paid $60,000 a week for two consecutive years.

In the 1980’s Patrick was offered the cover of the magazine People to help promote his debuting talk show on CBS when the Wheel of Fortune was being watched by more than 40 million people. Patrick was called somewhat reserved and publicity adverse in his downtime, it was not unnatural for him to turn down the popular magazine with this knowledge. He turned them down by saying e didn’t want to be “any place where one week it’s me and the next week it’s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hinckley_Jr.">John Hinckley</a>.”

In 1989 to 1990, he started working as a host on CBS late night with Dan Miller. Before that, he guest starred in the comedy movie Airplane II: The Sequel in the year 1982. He also appeared on other shows such as Just Men and Dream House. In 2003, he began working for Fox News as a host for a weekend program named <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Sajak_Weekend">Pat Sajak Weekend</a>. Holding a minor role in NBC’s soap Days of Our Lives in 1983 and Rugrats, a cartoon show in 1993.

In 2005, Patrick became an investor in the Golden Baseball League which is a professional independent baseball league including teams from Arizona, California, Utah, Alberta, British Columbia, Nevada, and Baja California. During a guest appearance in the broadcasting booth for the Red Socks in March 2012, Patrick admitted to having called baseball games in the past.

Having written some columns for the conservative magazine Human Events, Patrick has donated over $17,000 to candidates and election committees associated with the Republican Party. He has also served as a regular poster and podcast participant on the conservative blog ricochet.com. A longtime climate change skeptic he is also a financial supporter of the Young American’s Foundation which sponsors the conservative speakers on college campuses.

In the year 1979, he married Sherill but later divorced her in 1986. Marrying Lesly Brown, a photographer on December 31, 1989, they are proud parents of two children, a son named Patrick Michael James Sajak and a daughter named Magie Marie Sajak. Together they live in Severna Park, Maryland and have a second home in Los Angeles, California. According to his biography, his net worth is $45 Million with an annual salary of $12 Million.

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