Ken Jennings: Why I shouldn’t have replaced Alex Trebek on ‘Jeopardy!’

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The 49-year-old “Jeopardy!” champ has been co-hosting the long-running game show alongside Mayim Bialik since the late, great Alex Trebek passed in November 2020.

Now the 49-year-old former contestant has beenalongside Mayim Bialik since the late, great Alex Trebek passed in November 2020.

“If I were hiring for that job, I would go with a sturdy broadcaster with decades of experience, not just somebody who happened to be good at the show many years ago,” the Washington native confessed. “But luckily they took a chance on me.” “She’s always been like a real reassuring presence for me. Like the first day I was filling in for Alex, I called home, and she said, ‘Well, how did it go?,'” the“And I said, ‘Well, let me put it this way: I am not Alex Trebek up there.’ And she said, ‘Well, you know what? Maybe on his first day, he wasn’t either.’ And I really needed to hear that right then,” he continued.

 

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