The media personality likes to keep his parents whereabouts a secret as of now. As an anchor from the Los Angeles area, Jim's salary swirls around $59k per year. Jim Thornton is a member of Richest Celebrities and Radio Hosts. Thornton has an estimated net worth of $ 2 million dollars. Jackie Lamatis It is interesting to compare the net worth of the three Wheel of Fortune stars. He is 57 years old and is a Taurus. Vanna White is the co-host of Wheel of Fortune and Celebrity Wheel of Fortune. Trivia. Celebrity Wheel of Fortune, a spin-off of Wheel of Fortune, premiered in primetime on ABC in 2021. Michelle E. Buckhoff Thornton did substitute announcing work on The Price Is Right following the death of former announcer Rod Roddy. 71K views Wheel of Fortune 11-8-2012 - HD 720p Video. To "establish" him, Wheel dubbed him over the other guest announcers for the Summer 2011 repeats (although Charlie was retained on reruns of September and October shows, as well as weekend repeats of Season 27), a move speculated to have actually been the show either unwilling to pay royalties and/or thinking the others' work was extremely inferior.