‘Jeopardy!’ bosses back mistake-prone hosts: ‘They are human’

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fans in the past. “Of course they make mistakes; we are human, they are human,” Foss said to a fan who asked whether or not the hosts ever mess up while reading clues, speaking during a July 3 episode of the podcast she hosts with past show champion Buzzy Cohen, “Inside Jeopardy!” “Basically, we tell our contestants to go off of the game board, so no matter what the host says, knowing that the clue copy is almost always totally correct, our contestants are asked to go off that material,” Foss continued.“So if the host says something slightly different, the contestant should go based on what the clue reads and come up with their response based on that.”On her podcast, Foss also explained that sometimes “technical issues” come up on the show which are “really not based on a host mess-up.” “It’s based on a video clue popping up and the video doesn’t play or a video clue that’s supposed to pop up, and you see the text of the video, but you don’t see the video to support it,” she said. “So those are the situations where we need to replace it altogether.”Currently, the show is co-hosted by Mayim Bialik and Ken Jennings, who have been splitting up their duties since July 2022, and fans have pointed out a fair share of blunders between the two of them.Last month, some viewers called out Bialik over what they believed to be inconsistent hosting rules.

In March, others were outraged when Jennings allowed a contestant to win who correctly guessed “Ewan McGregor” but mispronounced his name.In August 2022, when Bialik was just getting the hang of the hosting gig, the show’s producers had to intervene during one episode as she mistakenly claimed that a contestant didn’t win points when she really did.In the past, the show’s executive.