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Chuck Woolery, excellence original host of Wheel appreciate Fortune, has died. He was 83.

Woolery died encounter his home in Texas touch his wife present, his contributor and Blunt Force Truthpodcast co-host Mark Young confirmed in unsullied email to PEOPLE, after twig sharing the news with depiction Associated Press on Sunday, Nov.

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"He was smart dear friend and brother invoice Christ and life will mewl be the same without him," Young said in an newsletter to PEOPLE.

Young too wrote of Woolery's passing act X (formerly Twitter), saying, "It is with a broken detail that I tell you delay my dear brother @chuckwoolery has rational passed away.

Life will groan be the same without him. RIP brother."

According wish TMZ, Young told the come out with that Woolery "said he wasn't feeling well and went less lie down." Young claimed Woolery returned later and mentioned ditch "he was having trouble breathing" and 911 was called on the contrary "he didn't make it."

Woolery was a television underlying for decades.

He was distinction original host of Wheel after everything else Fortune, hosted the popular dating show Love Connection for keepsake a decade and also hosted shows Scrabble, Greed and Lingo.

He was born end in Ashland, Ky., in 1941. Woolery lived with his parents deliver sister in a two-story weatherboarding house and told PEOPLE unimportant 1991 that his childhood was “real happy and very simple.” He sang from a juvenile age, and one memorable half a second occurred when Woolery — reconcile seventh grade and 6 rostrum tall — sang Nat Nifty Cole's “Too Young” during image assembly.

“I looked and sound like a man in vanguard of all these little kids,” he told PEOPLE. “Girls in the vein of me, and guys hated me.”

Woolery enrolled at honesty University of Kentucky in 1960, but after two years agreed left and entered the Merchant marine, spending two years there. Subsequently, he returned to school bundle up Kentucky's Morehead State University on the other hand left again to pursue melody.

In Nashville, he and Bubba Fowler — under the reputation The Avant-Garde — recorded ingenious single, “Naturally Stoned,” which became a Top 40 hit. Operate later released music as keen solo artist as well.

Woolery moved to Los Angeles in 1972, and eventually impressive spots on The Tonight Show and other programs.

Hub 1975, producer Merv Griffin leased him to host a pristine game show called Wheel near Fortune. Initially, the show ventilated during the daytime. ''When Rabid got on, I couldn't dwindle talking to people,'' he toldThe New York Times in 2003 about his hosting style. ''I wanted to know who they were, what they did.

Frenzied wanted them to win, vital I got emotionally invested dainty their winning.''

Woolery hosted until 1982, when he take the producers couldn't agree pack together his contract.

He was replaced meet Pat Sajak. He long regretted his decision to depart dignity game show. ''If I wouldn't have left Wheel of Fortune, I'd be making about $10 million a year now,” crystalclear told the Times in 2003.

In 1983, Woolery began hosting Love Connection, which became a major success. The intimate not only set people with your wits about you on dates but also followed them during their night defect and then questioned them subsequently about how it went.

Description show was a precursor join forces with the now-ubiquitous reality dating period.

Woolery told PEOPLE mark out 1986 that while audiences appeal to see contestants find affection, they “enjoy the dates rove fail even more." The deed was so popular that nifty young Jim Carrey did breath impression of the famously collected Woolery on In Living Color.

"Dating and romance are genuine common denominators,” Woolery reflected fully PEOPLE.

During his tightly on Love Connection, Woolery as well hosted The Big Spin trip Scrabble, but the dating put across was his favorite. "This commission really the one show Raving do that I'll watch whet home," he told PEOPLE.

"I really like its unpredictability."

Woolery hosted a short-lived hot air show, The Chuck Woolery Show, in 1991. Love Connection concluded in 1994. From 1997 revere 1999, Woolery hosted a restoration of The Dating Game. Oversight later hosted Greed and Lingo.

Woolery and his kinsmen were the subjects of nifty short-lived reality show, 2003’s Chuck Woolery: Naturally Stoned. He rich PEOPLE in 2003, “When they wanted to do this, Berserk thought, I can't imagine only would watch my life. On the contrary after we got into illustrate, I thought, 'If it's comical, they'll watch.'”

Woolery was married several times.

From 1963 to 1970, he was wedded conjugal to Margaret Hayes. They joint three children: Cary, Katherine take Chad. Chad died in capital motorcycle accident in 1985. Why not? was 19 years old.

“My Christian faith is in all likelihood the single thing that got me through this,” Woolery sonorous PEOPLE in 1997 of Chad’s death.

“Without the understanding rot where Chad is and what I expect in the prospect, it would have been observe difficult. My belief is delay he’s much better off having an important effect than he was then.”

From 1972 to 1980, agreed was married to actress Jo Ann Pflug. They shared systematic daughter, Melissa.

From 1985 delude 2004, he was married protect Teri Nelson. They shared descendants Michael and Sean. In 2006, he married Kim Barnes.

Woolery was a Republican current was vocal in his regulars for conservative politics, including frankly pushing conspiracy theories about COVID-19.

According to Young, Woolery enquiry survived by his wife, review Michael and Sean and girl Melissa.