Ghosts star Danielle Pinnock gives Pat Sajak and Vanna White their proper praise in this week’s new episode of Celebrity Wheel of Fortune.
Pinnock, who is playing for Boston Children’s Hospital, made it her mission to give Sajak and White their accolades for consistently entertaining America for decades.
“You are everything and more and I am so honored to be here,” she told Pinnock. “You are the epitome of excellence.”
She also told White that she used to dress up like her as a child. Pinnock said, “They used to call me Vanna Black.”
Watch the full clip below.
Celebrity Wheel of Fortune features celebrities playing for various charities while entertaining the audience with their answers to puzzles. In Pinnock’s episode, she will be playing against Gabriel Iglesias (who is playing for the California Community Foundation) and Noah Mills (who is playing for The Innocence Project).
Celebrity Wheel of Fortune airs Wednesdays at 9/8c on ABC.
Pinnock plays 1920s jazz singer Alberta on Ghosts, airing Thursdays on CBS. She told Shadow and Act how it is to bring the character to life, as well as how the show makes sure to celebrate diversity and inclusion in its characters and cast.
“I would have to say shout out to the writer’s room because everyone in the cast is represented in the writer’s room,” she said. “We have a Black female writer, Lauren, who is incredible and when we first got into the process of goals, they allowed the entire cast to meet the writer’s room and it was then that we just shared our personal stories and how we truly felt about that time period.”
“I think a lot of times what can happen on network television is that diversity is used as a decoration where it’s like we have a diverse cast, but for seasons, we don’t have any background information on who these people truly are, if they even have families,” she continued. “I mean a lot of times they are just in place to serve the white story and for something like this, that’s not the case with this show at all. We’re going to get into these deep flashbacks, obviously with a comedic twist.”