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Sony has fired Wheel of Fortune announcer Jim Thornton after an incident on an American Airways flight. “Following an intensive investigation, Jim Thornton’s employment with ‘Wheel of Fortune’ has been terminated, efficient instantly,” the studio instructed Selection in an announcement.
Sony has been cagey about what precisely was being totally investigated, however TMZ claims Thornton was seen accessing a “chat room for pedophiles,” which was then reported to legislation enforcement. An lawyer claiming to signify Thornton, Allison Hart, instructed TMZ Thornton had by accident been despatched to that chatroom considering it was a suicide prevention chatline. She stated Thornton has “turn out to be energetic in suicide-prevention advocacy since dropping an in depth member of the family to suicide two years in the past, and he has frolicked visiting chat rooms providing assist to people affected by suicidal ideation.”
Thornton was suspended on Tuesday, though the flight on which the chatroom exercise allegedly passed off was again in Could. All his strains on the upcoming season of Wheel have already been re-recorded by a brand new interim announcer. There isn’t any phrase but of a everlasting alternative.
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