in American TV history, like “I’d like to buy a vowel” and “I’d like to solve the puzzle.” Meanwhile,has been a mainstay of daytime TV since the early 1970s, and its catchphrase, “Come on down! You’re the next contestant onVanna White Caught The Attention Of Everyone
Those words are said four times to start the show , as the first four contestants are pulled from the audience to start the games. On June 20, 1980, the show’s original announcer, Johnny Olson, got to that fourth contestant to start the show and boomed, “Vanna White, Come on down!” The camera quickly pans over to reveal a 23-year-old White, casually dressed in a t-shirt and jeans, with a pair of sunglasses on her head, squeezing by the other audience members in her row before she runs down to take her spot behind the pricing scoreboard on the far left.
for White, as she never managed to guess the closest price on any of the items in the “One Bid” game that determines who plays in one of the