Wheel of Fortune’s Jim Thornton Was Allegedly in Pedophile Chat Room on Plane Before Suspension<\/p>\n
Content warning: This story discusses child sexual abuse images.<\/p>\n
More details are coming to light about the incident that led to Jim Thornton’s exit.<\/p>\n
After\u00a0Wheel of Fortune<\/a> suspended its longtime announcer<\/a> on Sept. 1 over undisclosed allegations from an American Airlines flight, the passenger involved in the May incident told TMZ<\/a> that she saw messages on his computer that made it seem like he was in a chat room for pedophiles.\u00a0<\/p>\n The outlet obtained photos allegedly showing Thornton’s computer on his tray table with messages in a chat room discussing “a couple of cute boys and a hot little girl” as well as “CP,” which the passenger believes stood for child pornography.<\/p>\n Other messages in the chat room read, “saunters to the bathroom for a quick w–k on the 737” and “does it count as the mile high club if its a h—job?” per the photos. It’s unclear if Thornton was the one who sent any of the messages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wheel of Fortune’s Jim Thornton Was Allegedly in Pedophile Chat Room on Plane Before Suspension Content warning: This…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":835982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[88],"class_list":["post-835981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=835981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/835982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=835981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=835981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=835981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}