New Jeopardy! hosts Ken Jennings and Mayim Bialik said they can still hear the late hosting legend Alex Trebek in their ears as they take the helm of the game show’s 39th season.
Jeopardy! announced Jennings and Bialik would share the game show’s hosting assignment in July following Trebek’s death in 2020 from pancreatic cancer.
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“I feel like Alex’s presence is here, and it is,” Bialik told Good Morning America on Monday. “It’s in the words that we heard him say for so many decades. But I think, also, wanting to more kind of imitate the feeling that he created on the stage for the contestants and for the audience.”
Jennings, who still holds the record for most consecutive Jeopardy! wins with 74, said he is grateful to be sharing the hosting duty with Bialik.
“One of the nice things about having two hosts is the focus is a little less on who is the iconic host of Jeopardy! And it’s really more about Jeopardy! as a game,” Jennings said. “Some nights, it’s going to be me. Some nights, it’s going to be Mayim. But it’s always Jeopardy!”
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Jennings also noted how special it was to walk onstage for the premiere of Season 39 with the return of a live audience since the COVID-19 pandemic.
“That first game of this season, I walked out, and people just went bonkers, and I just started to cry,” the Jeopardy! champ said. “This game means so much to people. And there was just this visceral wave of love and energy. I’ll be thinking about that for the rest of my life.”
