Chuck Woolery, the iconic game show host of “The Dating Game,” “Love Connection” and “Wheel of Fortune,” died this weekend. He was 83 years old.

Woolery died at his home in Texas with his wife Kristen by his side. according to the Associated Press. The news station received an email on Sunday from Woolery’s friend and podcast co-host Mark Young, saying: “Chuck was a dear friend and brother and a wonderful man of faith, life won’t be the same without him,” wrote Young.

Woolery got his first break as the first host of Wheel of Fortune in 1975. He stayed there until 1981, when he went on to host “Love Connection,” “Scrabble” and a revival of “The Dating Game.”

Woolery hosted game shows for more than 30 years, ending in 2007 with “Lingo” on the Game Show Network.

He was inducted into the American TV Game Show Hall of Fame in 2007 and coined iconic phrases during his hosting career, such as “we’ll be back in two minutes and two seconds.”

After hosting, Woolery tried his hand at Reality TV, the Game Show Network premiering ‘Chuck Woolery: Naturally Stoned’ in 2003. It only lasted six episodes.

The show’s title was based on one of his songs: Woolery was a singer in the orchestral pop band ‘The Avant-Garde’. Their most famous song, “Naturally Stoned,” reached No. 40 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1968.

He also worked as a songwriter for singers such as Pat Boone and Tammy Wynette, helping to write songs such as “We Can Sure Love Each Other” and “The Joys of Being a Woman,” according to the Associated Press.

Most recently, Woolery was a podcaster.

Together with Young, he started the political podcast ‘Blunt Force Truth’. According to the Associated Press, Woolery’s topics ranged from minorities not needing civil rights to COVID conspiracies.

Woolery was born and raised in Kentucky and served in the Navy after high school. He is survived by his wife, his sons Michael and Sean and his daughter Melissa, Young said.