LeVar Burton was asked about the process of auditioning to be the new host of Jeopardy at a Q&A panel at Rose City Comic Con in Portland, Oregon this past weekend.
The 65-year-old Star Trek actor said, “I’ll always bet on myself and given the opportunity to do it all over again, I would.
Well, first I would not believe the executive producer when he told me twice that he was not interested in the job, his job was to find someone to do the job.
That’s the guy who gave himself the job.” Click inside to read more… Although LeVar did not name former Jeopardy executive producer Mike Richards, Richards was named the new permanent host in August 2021 only to resign as host and executive producer just weeks later when offensive and sexist comments he made on a 2013 podcast were revealed. “So if I were to do it all over again, I wouldn’t trust him,” LeVar said, per We Got This Covered. “But I would insist on knowing that this was a real audition for the job because that’s what I thought I was asking for.” LeVar felt he was “pulled into a publicity stunt…But I went in willingly.
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