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'Wheel of Fortune' stars used to drink before tapings

Co-host Vanna White and host Pat Sajak make an appearance at Radio City Music Hall in New York, Saturday, Sept. 29, 2007, for a taping of celebrity week on 'Wheel of Fortune.' (THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-Peter Kramer)

NEW YORK — The "Wheel of Fortune" wasn't the only thing spinning for Pat Sajak and Vanna White back in the day.

Sajak said in an interview on ESPN2 this week that the long-time game show team would occasionally walk over to a restaurant for "two or three or six" margaritas during a break in taping early "Wheel of Fortune" shows in California. Sajak has hosted the show since 1981; White joined him a year later.

Sajak recalled the margarita stops after answering "yes" to a question about whether he had ever hosted the show "a little bit drunk."

Although he joked that he had "trouble recognizing the alphabet" for shows taped after the drinks, no one ever said anything to them.

Now that he's older, Sajak said he couldn't do that anymore.

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