America s game show host is also one of America s proudest dads.
Pat Sajak used air time during Monday s episode of Wheel of Fortune to give his 30-year-old son, Patrick Sajak, a congratulatory shout out. He asked his longtime co-host Vanna White if he could do a little parental bragging to honor his first born. You know my son Patrick, you ve known him all his life, Sajak told White. He s made it through medical school and he is now officially Dr. Sajak.
The game show host said he is thrilled about his son s accomplishment, whom he shares with his wife Lesly, but there is one aspect of the new degree that Sajak is less thrilled about.
emergency system in los angeles, saying that there was a man at the house who was unconscious, arrest. and that s when paramedics rushed to the scene. we hadn t confirmed whoever had been race freddie that house through the streets of los angeles to the hospital was, in fact, michael jackson. nobody was helped for it. i can say i certainly wasn t, because we were in farrah fawcett mode at that point. not only was it michael jackson, a huge star, but on the same day as farrah fawcett. she was shot and she died in a demonstration in tehran on saturday. this legislation will make clean energy profitable energy. i ve been unfaithful to my wife. with that governor mark sanford faced a wall of cameras and reporters.
when i found out osama bin laden died, i found it out on twitter. michael jackson michael jackson. michael jackson michael jackson has died. slightly heartless of covering this event, people started focusing pivoted to michael jackson and never even looked back to farrah fawcett for the most part. i don t think the public says to anyone making that call in a control room you got it wrong. june 25th, 2009. we saw how fast the news cycle can move. at one moment, we re still talking about this horrible killing captured on tape of a young woman in iran, and then farrah fawcett died. no bigger story at that moment. and then michael jackson dies. there s no bigger story. but we have been watching him since he was, what? 10 or 12 years old. does it mean we have short attention spans?
i was assigned to cover his home, even though he was no longer there, and the huge scene was at the hospital, the station wanted me to stay there because that s where the lapd was. within the past hour, we ve seen several robbery, homicide detectives going into the home that michael jackson has been renting. he said don t read anything into this, the fact we re here. robbery homicide routinely investigates murders excuse me, i apologize, i did not mean to say murder routinely investigates deaths that do not occur at a hospital. this michael jackson news follows the sad news we received earlier today, what was going to be a major story on this broadcast tonight as it is, that actress and icon, farrah fawcett died this morning. farrah fawcett, well thought of, courageous, a lot of terrific accolades. talented, beautiful, all these things.
but was she given the degree of remembrance that she would have been given if she had died on another day? she was not. while details on jackson s death are still scares, farrah fawcett s end is as well documented as her life. she never wondered why me and not someone else. she always knew this was what she had to do. in fact, that s why she took a camera and said i m going to make a documentary about this. so you weren t too happy about my hair, were you? i told you i was happy with that hair. i have seen a lot of people fight battles and they re all heroic in their own way, but this woman, farrah fawcett, she was like no other warrior. her long-time companion, actor ryan o neal was by her side when she died this morning. her son redman didn t get to say goodbye in person. i distinctly remember going home that night and feeling badly for farrah fawcett and her family that she did not get