Ken Jennings and Mayim Bialik have each been nominated for an Emmy within the class of excellent host for a recreation present. Related Press
It’s been virtually a yr since “Jeopardy!” named Ken Jennings and Mayim Bialik because the everlasting hosts — a choice that adopted quite a lot of unprecedented drama for the quiz present.
Now, Jennings and Bialik are being formally acknowledged for his or her work in restoring “Jeopardy!” to stability: Each hosts have snagged an Emmy nomination within the class of excellent host for a recreation present.
Different nominees within the class embody Steve Harvey from “Household Feud,” Keke Palmer, who hosts “Password,” and longtime “Wheel of Fortune” host Pat Sajak, who introduced earlier this yr that he's stepping down from the present after the upcoming season, the Deseret Information reported. This marks the primary time the class is a part of the primetime awards ceremony, per Folks.
Ken Jennings snags first Emmy nomination as ‘Jeopardy!’ host
That is Jennings’ first Emmy nomination, though the “Jeopardy!” Biggest of All Time champion isn’t a stranger to awards exhibits. In 2021, he was up for a Grammy within the class for finest spoken phrase album. Jennings helped narrate the audiobook for Alex Trebek’s memoir “The Reply is ... Reflections on My Life,” which hit cabinets in July 2020 — only a few months earlier than Trebek’s dying.
“Congratulations @KenJennings in your first Emmy nomination!!” Bialik shared on Twitter. “I’m so glad for you! I’m pondering we go in matching tuxedos? Let’s talk about.”
The 2 hosts have developed a camaraderie that extends past “Jeopardy!” Jennings appeared within the Season 3 premiere of Bialik’s sitcom “Name Me Kat,” and each hosts not too long ago competed in opposition to one another in an episode of “Celeb Wheel of Fortune,” the place they every received a recreation in the course of the one-hour episode.
Congratulations @KenJennings in your first Emmy nomination !! I am so glad for you! I am pondering we go in matching tuxedos? 🤵♂️🤵♀️ Let's talk about. 💛💛 @Jeopardypic.twitter.com/EoML5tmnw1
— Mayim Bialik (@missmayim) July 12, 2023
Bialik’s Emmy nomination as “Jeopardy!” host marks her fifth. She was beforehand nominated 4 occasions for excellent supporting actress in a comedy sequence for her position as Amy Farrah Fowler in “The Huge Bang Principle,” Folks reported. However the actress and neuroscientist has but to win an Emmy.
“Jeopardy!” itself has additionally been nominated within the class for excellent recreation present. In accordance with the “Jeopardy!” web site, the quiz present has received 43 Emmys — greater than every other recreation present.
What are ... 3 Emmy® nominations? 🥳
— Jeopardy! (@Jeopardy) July 12, 2023
Congratulations to the #Jeopardy! crew, @MissMayim, and @KenJennings! #Emmyspic.twitter.com/8BzAouox6u
Ken Jennings is internet hosting the rest of Season 39
Jennings’ Emmy nomination comes a couple of month after the discharge of his new e book, “100 Locations to See After You Die: A Journey Information to the Afterlife.” The “Jeopardy!” host additionally returned to internet hosting the quiz present earlier this month, after Bialik stepped down in the course of the remaining week of filming to indicate her help for the writers strike, the Deseret Information reported.
“Our final week of exhibits was already locked,” Jennings not too long ago advised the Deseret Information. “We might be above board and simply shoot the final week of scripts that had already been written.
“You wouldn't imagine the work our superb writers do, and so they’re Emmy Award profitable,” the “Jeopardy!” host continued. “We can't anticipate the strike to be resolved so we are able to get our writers again. We’re simply hoping the writers get the truthful deal they deserve (and) we are able to get again in time to the autumn.”
Season 39 of “Jeopardy!” concludes in late July.