Rich Fields

Richard Wayne "Rich" Fields (born November 30, 1960) filled in as announcer on Wheel of Fortune for the weeks of November 22 through December 13 plus the week of January 31. He had the second-longest run of tryouts for any of the guest announcers.

Rich began as a radio host at KCBS-FM in Los Angeles, later working as an announcer at Universal Studios in Hollywood. He also performed announcing duties on Florida's lottery game show Flamingo Fortune (1995-99), filling in as host on at least one occasion.

Fields' most famous work was announcer of The Price Is Right, a role which he repeatedly stated was his "dream job", from 2004-10. Coincidentally, he and current Wheel announcer Jim Thornton both spent some time as guest announcers on Price before Fields was chosen. He was fired after Season 38 due to unspecified reasons only described as "a mess of his own making and didn't have anything to do with The Price Is Right" (TMZ claimed he was a victim of identify theft, while someone claiming to be a close friend said that "he was getting tired, having too many personal problems"). It is known that Fremantle extremely disliked him, wanting him gone when Bob Barker left in 2007, and that executive producer Mike Richards wanted an improv comedian; George Gray ultimately got the job.

Rich's most recent work was announcing on Drew Carey's Improv-a-Ganza, which ran on GSN for a few months in 2011.