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Ryan Seacrest Reveals If He Had First Day Jitters on ‘Wheel of Fortune’ (Exclusive)
Ryan Seacrest is no longer feeling 29.
After the Wheel of Fortune host shared earlier this fall that he had been feeling as healthy as ever as he faced turning 50 in December, he admitted that a subsequent injury has kept him from maintaining his past prime.
“That changed since I said that,” Ryan said in an exclusive interview with E! News at iHeartRadio's Jingle Ball holiday special. “Now I have tendonitis. So it's just it's all going the wrong direction. As soon as I say that, put that in the universe, it all goes backwards.”
And while the 49-year-old was once feeling as fit as a fiddle, he noted, “Now I feel 50 and I'm not yet.” (For more from Ryan and other stars on the Jingle Ball red carpet, tune into E! News tonight, Dec. 9, at 11 p.m.)
The American Idol host may have overdone his healthy living—as he previously explained on Entertainment Tonight that he was feeling younger than 30 by “over-exercising, eating better,” and “over-training.”
Still, while Ryan was doing “everything” he could to feel like he was in his 20s, he anticipated that his body might push back a bit ahead of his milestone birthday Dec. 24.
“Talk to me on Dec. 25th,” he joked to the outlet, “the day after I turn 50.”
Although he may not be looking forward to his own 50th milestone, Ryan did tease some plans in store for the Wheel of Fortune’s 50th year on the air in 2025.
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“We're going to celebrate the nostalgia of Wheel of Fortune and how much it means to so many people in different generations,” Ryan detailed to E! News. “But the best part is we're just going to keep giving away a lot of money.”
Another Wheel of Fortune milestone Ryan is looking forward to hitting?
“Since I've started, have not given away the million dollars yet,” he added. “We've gotten close to it.”
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