Ryan added, “Pat Sajak’s a legend whom I’ve appeared as much as and watched so a few years, and to know that that present is such a staple for America and such a vacation spot for individuals and households within the night, I simply need to do my finest job and make it seamless and have individuals proceed to get pleasure from it.”
However earlier than Ryan steps into the function of Wheel of Fortune host, the star was targeted on unveiling The Ryan Seacrest Foundation‘s newest Seacrest Studio, a broadcast media middle for sufferers at Cohen Youngsters’s Medical Heart in Queens, N.Y. Sept. 19.
Detailing how he got here up with the concept for Seacrest Studios, Ryan shared, “I needed to do one thing tangible for my mission and my function and my basis. And I met with dad and mom at completely different kids’s hospitals and talked to them about what their youngsters have been going via and requested them how they escaped from it.”
He famous, “There wasn’t a constant reply, so I assumed, ‘What if we might construct one thing that was the heartbeat, the heartbeat, of the hospital, in the midst of the hospital, that allowed them to flee?’ And that is how we got here up with the studio concept.”