Anti-Gay Game Show Host Chuck Woolery Dies At 83
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
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