With Jeopardy ! fans having now grown fully accustomed to seeing Ken Jennings front and center for every episode, it’ll soon be time for another all-time great game show to bring in a new host, as Ryan Seacrest will take over Wheel of Fortune for Season 42. The season’s earliest episodes started taping ahead of the fall TV schedule , and it appears producers are showing him the kind of love that can only happen on Wheel , involving the signature letter lineup “RSTLNE.” Anyone who’s ever watched an episode of Wheel of Fortune all the way through can easily recite the Bonus Round puzzle’s six gimme letters for contestants to build upon.
It just so happens those first two letters match up with Ryan Seacrest ’s initials, which allowed for a fun way to honor the incoming host with some wordplay. Check out the Instagram video of the American Idol presenter alongside his newest co-star, Vanna White. A post shared by Ryan Seacrest (@ryanseacrest) A photo posted by on Obviously the mini-version of the show’s iconic wheel is cute, and I’m now inspired to think that it would make for a fantastic dust cover for a record player.
But even though Wheel of Fortune began when vinyls were still going strong as a medium, this isn’t about that. It’s about a new personality stepping in to record a new era..
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.to launch a new era. And what better way to give Seacrest his _L_ _ERS than by giving the Bonus Round’s letters a new meaning, albeit one whose meaning will necess.