Wheel of Fortune’s Pat Sajak has admitted he has hosted the show while drunk.

Yesterday (Thursday) he told ESPN2’s Dan LeBatard that on long dinner breaks he and co-host Vanna White would down sweet-and-sour tequila cocktails at a bar across from their Burbank studio. “Vanna and I would go across and have two or three or six and then come and do the last shows and have trouble recognizing the alphabet. They are really good tapes to get a hold of.”

Sajak, 65, says his drinking days are behind him. “Now, if I were to inhale the cork and a bottle of wine I would probably keel over, I’m getting a little older for this.”

 

We’ve lost a Sweathog. Robert Hegyes, who played Epstein on Welcome Back Kotter, died from an apparent heart attack yesterday in New Jersey. He was 60.

The actor’s brother said he’d suffered a heart attack several years ago and was not in good health. Robert’s other acting credits include Cagney and Lacey, NewsRadio, Diagnosis Murder and The Drew Carey Show.

Hegyes along with his Kotter castmates — John Travolta (Vinnie Barbarino), Gabe Kaplan, Laurence Hilton-Jacobs (Freddie “Boom-Boom” Percy Washington) and Ron Palillo (Horshack) — reunited at the TV Land Awards last year to accept the 35th Anniversary Award.

Is the Blackberry done?

What games are you looking forward to this year? Me? Super Mario Brothers Las Vegas…

-Cooper