‘Jeopardy!’ Fans Lash Out After Mayim Bialik Resumes Hosting

Numerous Jeopardy! followers have voiced their objection to Mayim Bialik resuming internet hosting duties, as Ken Jennings takes a break from the primetime present.

All-time Jeopardy! champ Jennings has hosted the syndicated quiz present since its thirty eighth season, whereas Bialik has introduced the tournaments. The pair have, every now and then, switched locations on the primary present and specials.

They have been formally introduced because the present’s everlasting hosts earlier than the beginning of the present season 39 final 12 months, following the demise of widespread long-time presenter Alex Trebek in November 2020.

Jennings’ most up-to-date block of pre-recorded exhibits got here to an finish in April, with Bialik stepping as much as the lectern from this week onward. Jennings might be seen internet hosting the Jeopardy! Masters competitors from Might 8.

The change round has prompted plenty of Jeopardy! followers to take to Twitter to specific their disapproval of Bialik’s return to the primetime broadcast.

“Mayim Bialik is again on #Jeopardy,” tweeted one viewer, alongside a face with rolling eyes emoji. “I’d mute this system and simply learn the solutions.”

“Tuned in after which out,” commented one other. “No Ken, no Jeopardy! Sorry, Mayim Bialik is simply insupportable. See you in September if she’s the host [for] the rest of the season. Exhausting go.”

“Mayim Bialik is so not good at internet hosting Jeopardy!” said one viewer, whereas one other pleaded: “Please carry Ken Jennings again. Mayim Bialik is terrible.”

“Cannot imagine we’re caught with Mayim Bialik the remainder of the this season. So unhealthy,” one other detractor complained.

Evaluating the host change to the continued Bud Gentle furor, one other chimed in: “Dylan Mulvaney is to Bud Gentle what Mayim Bialik is to Jeopardy.”

“Oh nice, Mayim Bialik is again internet hosting #jeopardy,” said one other, who clarified their emotions on the matter with the addition of a GIF of a person along with his thumb down.

Regardless of the wave of disapproval, plenty of different Jeopardy! followers expressed pleasure at seeing Name Me Kat star Bialik again on the present.

“Mayim Bialik is internet hosting at present, I missed her,” tweeted one fan of the present.

Including a string of celebratory emojis for example their elation, one other viewer wrote: “YAY!!! Mayim Bialik is backkkk! So completely happy.”

One other responded to the backlash by quote-tweeting a put up they shared again in March that learn: “No quantity of whining or complaining will change the truth that Mayim is simply as a lot the host of Jeopardy! as Ken is.”

Including a contemporary caption to the put up this week, the Jeopardy! fan wrote: “Now that Mayim Bialik is internet hosting syndicated Jeopardy for the remainder of this season.”

Throughout an look on the Inside Jeopardy! podcast in August, Bialik and Jennings spoke with fellow host Sarah Whitcomb Foss about how they cope with on-line backlash from followers of the quiz present.

“We’re nonetheless folks, so I am unable to say that once you hear issues which can be constructive criticism that you do not begin considering a bit of bit an excessive amount of about it,” Bialik stated. “However, I do not know, I form of take all people’s opinion each with a grain of salt and likewise imagine all people has a proper to their opinion.”

For Jennings, the unfavourable response got here early, when he noticed some folks have been “sick of him” within the earlier phases of his run as a Jeopardy! contestant in 2004. Jennings holds the file of the present’s longest win streak at 74.

“At the same time as a contestant, I bear in mind being shocked at how free—it was the early days of the web, however folks have been nonetheless very very like, ‘Oh, I am sick of this man already.’ And I am like, ‘Oh, there’s like three extra months [of me]… This man’s gonna have a nasty summer time!’ I simply form of needed to dissociate.

“You understand what? Jeopardy! has received such a giant, various viewers. You are not going to have the ability to please all people each night time. However I believe that is the advantage of getting a pair hosts. You understand, it is a massive, various viewers and perhaps that helps broaden the tent. It is a matter of style internet hosting type.”

Final June, Bialik opened up about being on the receiving finish of harsh feedback from some Jeopardy! followers earlier than being introduced as a everlasting host.

Talking with Justin Lengthy on an episode of her podcast, Mayim Bialik’s Breakdown, the TV persona revealed that viewers usually in contrast her to Jennings.

Actor and comic Lengthy broached the topic when he requested Bialik if she was ever made conscious that she was favored over Jennings by Jeopardy! followers.

“Generally,” Bialik responded, including: “Generally I get, ‘We do not desire you to Ken.'”

Noting how celebrities are sometimes seen, Lengthy stated: “Is not that wild—effectively, it is most likely the one career that I can consider, or perhaps politicians—the place folks will inform you deeply insulting issues however with a giant smile?”

“[People will tell you] precisely how they really feel,” Bialik stated in response. “Like, ‘I noticed you in {a magazine}. I used to be very confused. You regarded fairly.’ I get that loads.”