'Wheel of Fortune' Announcer Jim Thornton Suspended, Role Recast

Jim Thornton, the longtime Wheel of Fortune announcer, has been suspended from the popular game show amid unspecified allegations. “We have recently been made aware of allegations concerning Jim Thornton. He has been suspended from Wheel of Fortune and we are recasting while we conduct a thorough investigation,” Sony Pictures Television said in a statement to TMZ, Variety and other media outlets on Tuesday, September 1. TMZ was first to report Thornton’s suspension. The outlet reported that Thornton, 61, was involved in an incident on a commercial flight back in May, in whi...

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