Pat Sajak is “the most effective dad on the earth” to daughter Maggie Sajak, who’s discovered lots from the TV icon about making her personal mark on Wheel of Fortune.

“Having the ability to work with him for the final couple years, he’s taught me a lot about simply learn how to stability household and work and to only hold a very good head in your shoulders,” Maggie, 29, completely informed Us Weekly on the iHeartRadio Music Competition on Saturday, September 21. “We actually are, like, that shut; he’s actually my hero.”

Maggie additional gave Us the most effective items of recommendation that she’s acquired from her father.

“He at all times stresses being ready and doing the most effective you may in no matter state of affairs you’re in, since you by no means know what you’re going to be thrown into,” she defined. “He’s like, ‘Simply do the most effective you may wherever you might be, [and] if it’s a bit second each interplay you will have, make it particular for the contestants, particularly once we’re on the present.’”

Pat, 77, hosted Wheel of Fortune for 41 years, finally retiring in June. Maggie, whom Pat shares with spouse Lesly Brown alongside son Patrick, joined Wheel of Fortune in 2021 because the official social correspondent.

“[As] the social correspondent for the present, we do enjoyable behind-the-scenes issues and we get to return to enjoyable issues just like the iHeartRadio Music Competition,” Maggie informed Us, noting her intentions to uphold her father’s sport present legacy. “I imply, the present means a lot to me and to my household, so we’re at all times gonna need that to remain so particular and it’ll. It’s in nice palms so we’re excited to see the place it goes.”

Ryan Seacrest is the brand new host of Wheel of Fortune, with Maggie telling Us that “he’s superior” within the position.

“It’s nice,” Maggie gushed on the Las Vegas pageant. “He’s so skilled — as I’m positive you’d assume — however he actually appreciates the present and is aware of how vital it’s. You may actually inform by how ready he’s and the way he treats the contestants and the way he treats the entire expertise.”

After watching her father’s tenure and becoming a member of herself a number of years in the past, Maggie additionally bought to see how particular Wheel of Fortune is to viewers and contestants.

“It’s such a particular present to so many individuals and it’s greater than only a present, which sounds kinda tacky, nevertheless it actually is,” Maggie informed Us. “I imply, that is bonding amongst generations. That is the time that households eat dinner collectively. … So, when folks have come as much as my dad or informed me how particular the present is to them, it goes past simply ‘I like that present,’ and to be part of it now’s actually significant to me.”

Maggie additionally sees Pat’s longtime cohost Vanna White, who stays on the present with Seacrest, as a part of the Sajak household.

“We jokingly say she’s Aunt Vanna, however I’ve recognized her since earlier than I used to be born,” Maggie quipped. “She’s nice [and] I like having the ability to see her now at work. We’ve a variety of enjoyable; I pull her into TikToks I’m doing and issues like that.”

She continued, “She actually is such an icon, such a legend and such an important particular person too. She’s as candy as she appears.”

With reporting by Christine Maddela