Find out about Martindale’s marriage to his spouse and his ex-wife along with his kids beneath.
Wink Martindale’s Sport Exhibits
Martindale was well-known for internet hosting a number of sport reveals from the Seventies by the Nineteen Nineties. He was the face of Gambit from 1972 to 1976, and a second time from 1980 to 1981, Tic-Tac-Dough from 1978 to 1985, Excessive Rollers in 1987 and 1988 and Debt from 1996 to 1998.
After shifting on from the sport present style, Martindale printed his memoir, Winking at Life, in 2000. Within the e-book, he opened up about his progress as a sport present host and tv persona.
“I really like working with contestants, interacting with the viewers and to a level, watching lives change,” he wrote in a single excerpt. “Successful a number of money could cause that to occur.”
Since Martindale was additionally a DJ, a radio persona and a TV producer, he famous in his memoir that he “may simply have thought, ‘Wow, that is straightforward! I come out right here, go on radio and TV, make a report and all people desires to purchase it!”
“Even when I entertained such ideas, they quickly dissipated,” Martindale acknowledged, earlier than including, “I discovered in due time that what had occurred to me was removed from the bizarre.”
Who Is Wink Martindale’s Spouse?
Martindale was beforehand married to his first spouse, Madelyn Leech, from 1954 to 1972. They shared 4 kids collectively. Three years after he divorced Leech, Martindale married his second spouse, Ferra. They stayed collectively by the rest of his life.
Did Wink Martindale Have Children?
Sure, Martindale is survived by his daughters, Lisa, Madelyn and Laura. He was additionally a father to a son named Wink Jr., who died earlier than the previous Gambit host, per NPR. His kids had been all from Martindale’s marriage to his first spouse, Leech.
How Did Wink Martindale Die?
Initially, no reason for demise was given when information broke of Martindale’s demise. Nonetheless, per TMZ, Martindale died after a battle with lymphoma. His rep, Brian Mayes, mentioned Martindale had been battling most cancers for a couple of yr however was “doing nicely” till he “took a flip for the more serious” two weeks earlier than he died.
