<Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This section needs additional citations for verification . Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed . (March 2016) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This section needs additional citations for verification . Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed . (March 2016) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> <P> Before her appearance on TV in 1980, White was a contestant in the Miss Georgia 1978 pageant . White's first appearance in a game show was on the June 20, 1980, episode of The Price Is Right, in which she was among the first four contestants . She did not make it onstage, but the clip of her running to Contestants' Row was rebroadcast as part of The Price Is Right 25th Anniversary Special in August 1996 and also was featured on the special broadcast Game Show Moments Gone Bananas . After Wheel of Fortune hostess Susan Stafford left in October 1982, White was selected as one of three substitute hostesses (along with Vicki McCarty and Summer Bartholomew) to co-host the show . On December 13, 1982, White became the regular hostess . Her 1987 autobiography, Vanna Speaks!, was a best - seller . Also in 1987, she was featured in a Playboy pictorial, showing photos taken of her by her boyfriend (before her career on Wheel of Fortune) wearing see - through lingerie . </P> <P> In 1988, she appeared in the NBC television film Goddess of Love, in which she played Venus; Betsy Palmer co-starred as Juno . The film was panned universally by critics, with TV Guide joking that White's acting was "wheely" bad . Film historian Leonard Maltin added that the picture was "...bottom - of - the - barrel yet, on its own terms, a must - see". </P>

June 18 1980 episode of the price is right