Mayim Bialik speaks out on 'Jeopardy!' drama l GMA

now with new jeopardy host mayan bialik who's speaking out about all the drama surrounding the show tj holmes has the story here [Applause] mayam bialik's temporary tenure as jeopardy host is underway stepping behind that iconic podium last night for the first time since the controversy that led to mike richards being ousted from the show welcome i am so honored to be a part of the jeopardy family though bialik didn't mention the scandal during the show in an essay for newsweek the former blossom star writes that she doesn't wish ill on richards and that the complexity of these situations is not something that can be summed up easily there has been a dark cloud over jeopardy ever since this whole mike richards debacle my ambialic is saying i'm well aware of the drama but let's move past that and let's really honor the legacy of this iconic show and there is no place i'd rather be last week bialik and former jeopardy champ ken jennings were tapped to share hosting duties of the game show through the end of the year both were fan favorites during the summer's parade of guest hosts which included richards then executive producer who was later named as alex trebek's successor with bialik to host the show's prime time specials and spin-offs a fun final jeopardy category to wrap up the week but after just one day of taping richards stepped down after past sexist and offensive remarks resurfaced soon after richards was fired as ep of both jeopardy and will of fortune bialik a 45 year old mother of two and real life neuroscientists says her connection to jeopardy goes way back to when trebek appeared on blossom blossom you left the pulitzer prize ceremony to be with us today we are most appreciative of that thank you alex bialik says she feels honored to be stepping into the shoes of the late trebek writing there will never be another alex on camera or off it's important not to try and be him because you can't all right so these two bialik and jennings are considered the favorites of course but bialik has faced some criticism because of past comments she's made about vaccines ken jennings has actually apologized some really offensive tweets and remarks he's made in the past so they don't have necessarily clean the backgrounds if you will if they were going to be picked and levar burton raiding rainbow a breeding rainbow everybody wanted him he's a fan favorite he says he doesn't even want the gig anymore well we'll see you next week talk about this too you think no i jumped that jump that we'll be see tomorrow i think they should just solve it all make tj the host and that is there we go yes you don't want to dig into my background we have our player today stay right there tj don't incriminate yourself well hey there gma fans robin roberts here thanks for checking out our youtube channel lots of great stuff here so go on click the subscribe button right over right over here to get more of awesome videos and content from gma every day anytime we thank you for watching and we'll see you in the morning on gma

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Length: 3min 3sec (183 seconds)

Published: Tue Sep 21 2021