Chuck Woolery, former game show host of Love Connection and Wheel of Fortune, reportedly died at his home in Texas. He was 83 years old. Woolery’s passing was confirmed by his friend and Blunt Force Truth podcast co-host Mark Youngin in an email to the Associated Press on Sunday, Nov. 24. Youngin also confirmed his friend's passing via a post on X. He said:
“It is with a broken heart that I tell you that my dear brother @chuckwoolery has just passed away. Life will not be the same without him, RIP brother.”
Youngin also confirmed Woolery died with his wife of 18 years, Kim Barnes, by his side at the Texas home. Woolery met Barnes, his fourth wife, on a blind date in 2003. At the time, Barnes was working as a Makeup artist in the game show Deal or No Deal.
Barnes, a Detroit native and 25 years her husband's junior, married Chuck Woolery in a small Las Vegas ceremony in July 2006. The couple moved to Texas shortly after.
According to Barnes's LinkedIn, she’s worked as a freelance Photographer and a hair & make-up artist since 1998.
What we know about Chuck Woolery's family
Kentucky native Chuck Woolery was married three times before he tied the knot with Kim Barnes. Woolery married Margaret Hayes in 1961 when he was 20-years-old. The couple had three children together - Cary, Katherine, and Charles Daniel Woolery, who was known as Chad.
Charles Daniel Woolery, aka Chad, died in a motorcycle accident in Bel-Air, in 1986 when he was 19 years old. Chad, who had been cycling at the time, reportedly overturned after colliding with a center divider and a planter. Police claimed Chad was not wearing a helmet at the time of the accident.
Chuck Woolery married his second wife, actress Jo Ann Pflug, in 1972. The couple were together for eight years and had a daughter named Melissa in 1975.
Four years after his divorce from Pflug in 1980, Woolery married Teri Nelson in 1985. The couple, who had two sons together, named Michael and Sean, divorced in 2004.
In 2003, The New York Post reported Woolery and Nelson, who is 15 years his junior, had been separated for at least five weeks. At the time Woolery said his wife initiated separation for undisclosed reasons.
“She said she needed to find herself – that’s as far as she took it.”
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Woolery told the Post he hired a private detective who allegedly discovered Nelson was spending a lot of time with a ski instructor, who worked on the mountain near the family home in Utah. Woolery noted the detective found no evidence of an affair.
Shortly after Woolery was set up on a blind date with his current wife Kim Barnes. The couple had no children together.
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