‘Wheel of Fortune’ hiring Ryan Seacrest was ‘all wrong’: ‘Jeopardy!’ champ
nypost.comtook to Twitter on Tuesday to comment on Seacrest being named the new “Wheel of Fortune” host — and mock the long, winding road “Jeopardy!” went on to find a replacement for the late Alex Trebek.(Trebek died in late 2020 after a lengthy battle with pancreatic cancer.)“Wheel of Fortune went about this all wrong,” Holzhauer tweeted sarcastically. “First you subject the contestants and viewers to an endless parade of temps who don’t prepare before hosting Then the producer in charge of the search says ‘Actually, *I* would be the perfect host’ Then ‘jk we have two hosts now.'”Jeopardy interim guest hosts included Katie Couric, Anderson Cooper, LeVar Burton, Aaron Rodgers, Dr.
Mehmet Oz, Robin Roberts, George Stephanopoulos, David Faber, Joe Buck, Ken Jennings, Bill Whitaker, Mayim Bialik, Savannah Guthrie and Dr.
Sanjay Gupta.Wheel of Fortune went about this all wrongFirst you subject the contestants and viewers to an endless parade of temps who don’t prepare before hostingThen the producer in charge of the search says “Actually, *I* would be the perfect host”Then “jk we have two hosts now” pic.twitter.com/7pj55RFeg6In July 2022, it was announced that Bialik and Jennings would share official “Jeopardy!” hosting duties.
Sajak announced earlier this month that he was leaving the show, and it took just over two weeks for his successor to be named.
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