Days after hinting at retirement, “Wheel of Fortune” host Pat Sajak has come under fire for a photo that surfaced of him and Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene.
The undated photo appears to have been taken earlier this month, according to TMZ.
The game show host is flanked by the Republican Greene and Right Side Broadcasting Network reporter Bryan Glenn. RSBN is known for promoting right-wing views, and Greene, among other things, makes a hobby of harassing mass-shooting victims and thinks that Sandy Hook massacre denier Alex Jones got a raw deal in court.
“First Chuck Woolery. Now Pat Sajak. Are all game show hosts trash?” tweeted author, activist, professor and BET host Marc Lamont Hill, referring perhaps to the ex-“Scrabble” host’s 2020 denial, and then retraction, about whether the COVID-19 pandemic was real.
“The company you keep is quite unfortunate, Pat Sajak,” tweeted Diana Gonzalez, a media relations director at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. “Will be changing the channel when you spin the wheel.”
Sajak hosts a show on which co-host Vanna White spins a wheel and people guess letters to words. Sajak, who has hosted for just over four decades, has never kept his conservative views secret.
The original tweet came from Patriot Takes, an anonymous social media account that purports to monitor and expose “right-wing extremism and other threats to democracy,” according to its description on the platform.
Tweeted out Saturday night, it provides no context for the photo.
Earlier this month, Sajak and White extended their hosting contract through 2024, though since then Sajak has intimated that it might be his last run.
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