--- title: Wheel of Fortune Contestant Stuns Us With Loveless Marriage description: Wheel of Fortune contestant stunned Pat Sajak by describing his "loveless marriage" canonical: https://time.com/5702182/wheel-of-fortune-contestant-loveless-marriage/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-10-16T15:42:57.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:47:03.122Z og:title: Wheel of Fortune Contestant Caught Us Off Guard With His 'Loveless Marriage' Comment og:description: The host just wanted the man’s bio og:url: https://time.com/5702182/wheel-of-fortune-contestant-loveless-marriage/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltec54c6087c7f1d0f/698a045b16d88439a0c371fd/wheeloffortunecontestant.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1024 og:image:height: 576 og:image:alt: Wheel Of Fortune Celebrates Its 25th Anniversary og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Wheel of Fortune Contestant Caught Us Off Guard With His 'Loveless Marriage' Comment twitter:description: The host just wanted the man’s bio twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltec54c6087c7f1d0f/698a045b16d88439a0c371fd/wheeloffortunecontestant.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Wheel of Fortune Contestant Stuns People By Casually Mentioning He Is Trapped in a 'Loveless Marriage' > Sponsored content. 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(Photo by Astrid Stawiarz/Getty Images) Astrid Stawiarz&;Getty Images by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Oct 16, 2019 3:42 PM UTC [_Wheel of Fortune_](https://time.com/5234535/flamenco-dance-lessons-wheel-of-fortune/)host Pat Sajak is used to contestants having a way with words—after all that’s the focus of the game show. However, he was taken aback when a recent guest let loose with a torrent of words never before heard on the show. In a clip from the long-running game show, which was tweeted on Tuesday, as part of his duties as host, [Sajak](https://time.com/4228913/wheel-of-fortune-contestant-geography-fail/) innocuously asked contestant Blair Davis about his family. It’s the game show version of small talk, so what Davis said in response was quite unexpected. “I’ve been trapped in a loveless marriage for the last 12 years to an old battle-ax named Kim,” Davis said, completely straight faced. While the studio audience laughed, Davis wasn’t done yet. “She cursed my life with three step-children named Star, R.J., and Ryan and I have one rotten grandson.” While the answer seemed to take Sajak by surprise, he has been doing his job [a long time](https://time.com/3578848/pat-sajak-wheel-of-fortune-meltdown-horse/?xid=time%5Freadnext) and had a quick retort. “No wonder you came here,” he quipped. “You just wanted to get away from everybody.” Luckily for Davis and his emotional well-being, his comments were all in jest, which Sajak confirmed. “I know you’re being facetious — one would hope,” the host optimistically suggested and Davis admitted he was just joking. “Absolutely,” Davis told him. “I love ’em like nobody’s business.” The moment has gone viral, creating more buzz for the show than the time a contestant [mispronounced “flamenco”](https://time.com/5234535/flamenco-dance-lessons-wheel-of-fortune/) and cost himself a victory or when a woman [failed to solve](https://time.com/3734143/wheel-of-fortune-seven-dwarfs-fail/) the easiest puzzle ever. > [](https://twitter.com/WheelofFortune/status/1184136852028084224) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5702182/wheel-of-fortune-contestant-loveless-marriage/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5702182/wheel-of-fortune-contestant-loveless-marriage/"},"headline":"Wheel of Fortune Contestant Stuns People By Casually Mentioning He Is Trapped in a 'Loveless Marriage'","datePublished":"2019-10-16T15:42:57.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T07:47:03.122Z","description":"Host Pat Sajak just wanted the man’s bio.","url":"https://time.com/5702182/wheel-of-fortune-contestant-loveless-marriage/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Games","viral","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltec54c6087c7f1d0f/698a045b16d88439a0c371fd/wheeloffortunecontestant.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltec54c6087c7f1d0f/698a045b16d88439a0c371fd/wheeloffortunecontestant.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Wheel Of Fortune Celebrates Its 25th Anniversary","caption":"Wheel Of Fortune Celebrates Its 25th Anniversary","creditText":"Astrid Stawiarz&;Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5702182/wheel-of-fortune-contestant-loveless-marriage/","name":"Wheel of Fortune Contestant Stuns People By Casually Mentioning He Is Trapped in a 'Loveless Marriage'"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Inside 35 Years of Wheel of Fortune","description":"Inside 35 Years of Wheel of Fortune","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/hLOyAjSm/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2017-12-04T20:49:47.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/hLOyAjSm.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/5702182/wheel-of-fortune-contestant-loveless-marriage/","duration":"PT1M25S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/5702182/wheel-of-fortune-contestant-loveless-marriage/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```