The former TV personality and conservative commentator hosted "Wheel" for several years prior to Pat Sajak's decades-long run.

Chuck Woolery, the game show veteran who was the original host of "Wheel of Fortune" and went on to host "Love Connection," has died at 83.

Chuck Woolery, by any measure one of the most successful game show hosts in history, passed away this weekend. The 83-year-old star is probably best remembered as the first host of Wheel Of Fortune, though he also guided a ton of other shows to sustained success including Love Connection and Scrabble, both of which ran for around a decade.

After rising to prominence as a handsome, easygoing game-show host, he became a conservative commentator and podcaster.

Chuck Woolery, the affable, smooth-talking game show host of “Wheel of Fortune,” “Love Connection” and “Scrabble” who later became a right-wing podcaster, skewering liberals and accusing the

Before longtime game-show host Chuck Woolery started his decades-long career on television, he served in the U.S. Navy aboard the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise.