Chuck Woolery, the affable, smooth-talking game show host of “Wheel of Fortune,” “Love Connection” and “Scrabble” who later became a right-wing podcaster, skewering liberals and accusing the government of lying about COVID-19,

Chuck Woolery, the charismatic game show host who kicked off the long run of Wheel of Fortune before spending 11 years playing matchmaker on Love Connection, has died. He was 83.

Chuck Woolery, host of the 80s and 90s TV show "The Love Connection," throws a ceremonial first pitch before the Milwaukee Brewers-St. Louis Cardinals baseball game at Busch Stadium in St. Louis in 2015. Woolery died this weekend at the age of 83. File Photo by Bill Greenblatt/UPI | License Photo