Even the best of all times can go wrong sometimes. Jeopardy! Ken Jennings – who earlier this year won the game show tournament to determine the best Jeopardy! champion of all time – issued a stream of tweets of apologies for insensitive posts on social networks that he made in the past.
Jennings’ excuses on Twitter arrive as he prepares to start his run as the first Jeopardy! host to follow Jeopardy for a long time! master of ceremonies Alex Trebek, who passed away earlier this year after a period of 36 years.
Jennings’ host roles in Jeopardy! will start on January 11th. The search for a permanent host continues.
The tweets that generated excuses are related to the comments Jennings made in 2014, when she posted: “Nothing is sadder than a hot person in a wheelchair”.
When someone retweeted this comment in 2018, Jennings responded on Twitter, saying, “I have never been publicly flogged for this, but I have personally apologized to the angry / hurt people who have contacted me personally. It was a joke so inept that it meant something very different in my head [and] I regret the simple reading capable of that. “
Jennings also made several bad jokes on social media about a Star Wars fan, 11-year-old Barron Trump, an elderly grieving grandmother.
Today’s excuses stream:
Hey, I just wanted to acknowledge the fact that over the years on Twitter, I definitely tweeted some uninspiring and insensitive things. Sometimes they acted like jokes in my head and I was dismayed to see how they read on the screen. 1 / x
– Ken Jennings (@KenJennings) December 30, 2020
In the past, I usually left bad tweets in the air just so they could be ignored. At least that way, they could lead to smart responses and even advocacy. Deleting them seemed like a bleaching error. 2 / x
– Ken Jennings (@KenJennings) December 30, 2020
But I think this practice may have given the impression that I keep all the failed jokes that I posted here. Not at all! 3 / x
– Ken Jennings (@KenJennings) December 30, 2020
Sometimes I said stupid things in a stupid way and I want to apologize to people who were (rightly!) Offended. It wasn’t my intention to hurt anyone, but it doesn’t matter: I blew it and I’m really sorry. 4 / x
– Ken Jennings (@KenJennings) December 30, 2020
If 2020 has taught us anything, it is that we should be kinder to each other. I look forward to entering 2021 with that in mind. 5 / x
– Ken Jennings (@KenJennings) December 30, 2020