‘Jeopardy!’ Winner Ken Jennings Apologizes for ‘Insensitive’ Tweets: ‘Sometimes I Said Dumb Things in a Dumb Way’
Ken Jennings went on an apology tour after old tweets mocking the disabled community resurfaced.In a string of tweets on Wednesday, December 30, the Jeopardy! consulting producer, 46, admitted that he tweeted “some unartful and insensitive things” in the past.Jennings claimed that many of the tweets “worked as jokes” in his mind, but said he was “dismayed to see how they read on screen.” He didn’t delete them, though, because he thought that would be “whitewashing a mistake.”He wrote, “Sometimes I said dumb things in a dumb way and I want to apologize to people who were (rightfully!) offended.