After a brief break, Ken Jennings is returning to host “Jeopardy!” beginning March 10. Jeopardy Productions, Inc.
Justin Bolsen, winner of the “Jeopardy!” Excessive College Reunion Event, poses for a photograph with host Mayim Bialik. Jeopardy Productions, Inc.
After a brief break, Ken Jennings is resuming his function as “Jeopardy!” host.
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The 74-game “Jeopardy!” champ returns to internet hosting the quiz present beginning March 10, and can host by way of April 28, TVLine reported. TheJeopardyFan.com additionally signifies that Jennings will return to internet hosting on March 10.
After seven weeks, Jennings’ co-host, Mayim Bialik, will take over on Could 1 and act as host for the rest of the present’s thirty ninth season, which concludes in July, per TVLine.
Each Jennings and Bialik have been named the present’s co-hosts in July 2022.
“The actual fact is, now we have a lot ‘Jeopardy!’ to make, and so many plans for the long run, that we all the time knew we would wish a number of hosts for the franchise and we're simply so grateful that Mayim and Ken stepped in and stepped as much as put the present ready to succeed,” “Jeopardy!” Government Producer Michael Davies stated in a assertion on the time, including that viewership had gone up “significantly” as Jennings and Bialik cut up internet hosting duties for the present’s thirty eighth season.
Most not too long ago, Bialik was internet hosting the “Jeopardy!” Excessive College Reunion Event, which noticed 27 former Teen Event contestants — who at the moment are in school — competing for $100,000 and a spot within the 2023 Event of Champions, the Deseret Information beforehand reported. The highschool reunion event concluded on March 9, with Justin Bolsen, a scholar at Brown College, claiming the highest prize, in keeping with a information launch shared with the Deseret Information. Jackson Jones, a junior at Vanderbilt College, positioned second and Maya Wright, a senior at Emory College, completed in third.
“It feels actually good,” Bolsen stated in a press release. “It seems like all of the Quiz Bowl stuff I’ve performed, all of the teaching I had — I had actually nice center college and highschool Quiz Bowl coaches — I owe plenty of this to them. I am going to Brown, which is a extremely open, collaborative atmosphere, so I had plenty of buddies who helped me examine too, which was good.”
Bolsen, 18, would be the youngest contestant to compete within the “Jeopardy!” Event of Champions.
Justin Bolsen, winner of the “Jeopardy!” Excessive College Reunion Event, poses for a photograph with host Mayim Bialik.
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What Ken Jennings has stated about internet hosting ‘Jeopardy!’
Jennings has hosted for almost all of Season 39 — together with the season premiere, which made him emotional as he walked out to a studio viewers for the primary time because the begin of the pandemic.
“That first recreation of this season, I walked out and other people simply went bonkers and I simply began to cry,” Jennings informed “Good Morning America.” “This recreation means a lot to individuals. And there was simply this visceral wave of affection and vitality. I’ll be fascinated with that for the remainder of my life.”
“I needed to come out and do my opening once more as a result of I used to be so touched,” he stated on an episode of the podcast “Inside Jeopardy!,” per the Deseret Information.
Jennings’ historical past with the quiz present goes again to his childhood — he would rush dwelling from college daily to look at “Jeopardy!” the Deseret Information reported. In 2004, he turned the present’s winningest contestant with an unimaginable 74-game successful streak, and 16 years after that, he claimed the “Jeopardy!” Biggest of All Time title in a event with fellow “Jeopardy!” greats James Holzhauer and Brad Rutter.
However regardless of his “Jeopardy!” accomplishments, above all else, Jennings primarily considers himself to be an avid fan of the present.
“Wish to today I really feel like a fan,” he stated. “I wouldn’t be the particular person I'm with out all of the ‘Jeopardy!’ I watched as a child, after which after all it modified my life in a giant approach 20 years in the past. It’s simply an honor to be related to this present in any approach.”