{"id":456023,"date":"2026-09-07T06:04:22","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T06:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/456023\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T06:04:22","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T06:04:22","slug":"wheel-of-fortune-announcer-denies-wrongdoing-as-new-details-emerge-in-firing-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/456023\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Wheel Of Fortune&#8217; Announcer Denies Wrongdoing As New Details Emerge In Firing: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sony Pictures Television Studios on Tuesday <a href=\"https:\/\/patch.com\/california\/los-angeles\/longtime-wheel-fortune-announcer-suspended-recasting-underway-reports\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">announced it had suspended Thornton<\/a> while investigating allegations against him. The studio has not disclosed the nature of the allegations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe 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,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/ktla.com\/news\/wheel-of-fortune-announcer-jim-thornton-suspended\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">a Sony spokesperson told KTLA.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>On Friday, a Sony spokesperson told TMZ that Thornton had been terminated.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;Following a thorough investigation, Jim Thornton\u2019s employment with Wheel of Fortune has been terminated, effective immediately,&#8221; the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p>Thornton has served as the announcer for \u201cWheel of Fortune\u201d since 2011, succeeding longtime announcer Charlie O\u2019Donnell after O\u2019Donnell\u2019s death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sony Pictures Television Studios on Tuesday announced it had suspended Thornton while investigating allegations against him. The studio&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":456024,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-456023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}