Former Jeopardy! Host For A Day Mike Richards Gives Answers – But Not In The Form Of A Question
deadline.comFormer Jeopardy! producer Mike Richards is finally talking about what went wrong for him in his ill-fated stint as host two years ago.
Richards was announced as the full-time replacement for the late Alex Trebek in 2021. He lasted just one day before resigning after questions arose about his conduct. “We never discussed how to replace Alex once we knew he was sick,” Richards told People in a new interview. “A conversation like that would have been so disrespectful.
We had talked about people coming in and guest hosting if Alex got too sick. But we always knew Alex would come back until the day he decided he couldn’t.” Trebek died of pancreatic cancer in November 2020.
At that point, several guest hosts were brought in as executives struggled to determine who would be the host. The tryouts included Katie Couric, Aaron Rodgers, Joe Buck, and Robin Roberts.
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