‘Jeopardy!’ champion Mattea Roach on who should be the permanent host
nypost.comto “Jeopardy!” stardom by becoming the first Gen Z megachampion, has cast her vote for who should be the show’s permanent host between Mayim Bialik and Ken Jennings.
She’s also weighing in on criticism she’s received about the way she plays the game.“I would say Ken because of his history with the show,” the 23-year-old contestant from Toronto told Vulture of her pick to replace longtime host Alex Trebek, who died in 2020. “As a contestant, there’s something really special about being onstage with the greatest player of all time.
Someone who understands in a very visceral way what it’s like to be in your position. “Mayim is fantastic, but she doesn’t have that same experience,” Roach concluded.Because of Roach’s unique facial expressions and thinking aloud during the game show, devout “Jeopardy!” fans have also speculated that she’s doing that to distract other contestants. “The notion of my comments being distracting either to the viewers or the players, I was like, ‘Huh?’ You don’t have time to think about weird mind games,” she said. “I would never want to be deliberately distracting to another player because it’s so unsportsmanlike.
I like to think it didn’t have that impact.”People, according to Roach, have deemed her strategy too casual and have said, “She’s playing the same way she’d play along while at home on the couch.” “I remember saying to a friend, ‘I’m not going to court.
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