Anti-Gay Game Show Host Chuck Woolery Dies At 83

November 24, 2024 News, Television

The Hollywood Reporter reports:

Chuck Woolery, the charismatic game show host who kicked off the long run of Wheel of Fortune before spending 11 years playing matchmaker on Love Connection, has died. He was 83.

For his Love Connection trademark, Woolery told viewers that the program would return after the commercials in “two and two” — two minutes and two seconds, the length of the break back then — and had a hand signal just for that. In 1993, Entertainment Weekly asked Woolery is he “would you ever have gay couples” on the show.

“No,” he replied. “You think it would work if a guy sat down and I said, ‘Well, so where did you meet and so and so?’ then I get to the end of the date and say, ‘Did you kiss?’ Give me a break. Do you think America by and large is gonna identify with that? I don’t think that works at all.”

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Woolery appeared here multiple times for his anti-LGBTQ tweets. He blocked me after I pointed out that he wouldn’t have a career at all if not for Merv Griffin, the closeted but gay creator of Wheel Of Fortune, who gave him the hosting job in 1975.

In 2020, Trump retweeted Woolery’s claim that the CDC, doctors, and all scientists were lying about the prevalence of COVID. Woolery later took his Twitter account private in the face of mocking after revealing that his son was ill with COVID.

Later in 2020, Wollery posted attacks on Anthony Fauci and lavished praise on anti-vax nutbag Dr. Demon Semen.

In 2017, Woolery claimed that Jews and socialists were ruining his career because he was a Trump supporter.

In 2015, Woolery took to YouTube with a lengthy rant about how same-sex marriage would cause churches to lost their tax-exempt status.



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