Vanna White credits the show’s creator, Merv Griffin, with recognizing that she and Pat Sajak had the possibility to connect on a level that transcended a professional relationship. “We are like a brother and sister team,” she told People. The taping schedule for “Wheel of Fortune” has also helped the two keep from getting on each other’s nerves after over 40 years of working together. “We see each other every couple of weeks for a couple of days. It’s perfect,” White said. She added that the two easily reconnect after being apart. “And he is always making me laugh,” she said about Sajak. The co-hosts are also able to read each other easily. “I can tell sometimes — and he can tell with me, without saying a word, ‘Oh, she’s in a bad mood,'” White told People. “We speak each other’s language.”
That unspoken communication has paid serious dividends. While the duo may be “a brother and sister team,” they do not have fights that typically befall sibling relationships. “Believe it or not, Pat Sajak and I have only had one argument in 36 years and that was over putting ketchup on a hotdog,” White told Fox News in 2019.
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White has said the two hit it off early on. “We get along so well and are really best friends. We always have been,” she told Closer in 2019. Although there was a time White and Sajak hinted they could be more than friends.
