Ken Jennings choked up whereas paying an emotional tribute to Alex Trebek throughout his first episode as a visitor host on Jeopardy!
The Monday (11 January) episode of the quiz present was an emotional one, because it was the primary to be filmed in November following the dying of long-time host Trebek.
Jennings, a former contestant on the present, is one in all a gaggle of visitor hosts from “throughout the Jeopardy! household” to visitor host for the remainder of the season. He opened his first episode by speaking in regards to the legendary presenter.
“Sharing this stage with Alex Trebek was one of many best honours of my life,” Jennings mentioned. “Not many issues in life are excellent, however Alex did this job just about completely for greater than 36 years, and it was even higher up shut.
“We had been dazzled by his intelligence, his attraction, his grace, actually, there’s no different phrase for it.”
His voice cracking mid-sentence, Jennings continued: “Like all Jeopardy! followers, I miss Alex very a lot and I thank him for every thing he did for all of us.
“Let’s be completely clear: Nobody will ever exchange the nice Alex Trebek, however we will honour him by taking part in the sport he cherished,” he concluded.
Trebek died of stage 4 pancreatic most cancers on 8 November 2020, aged 80. On the time of his dying, he was filming his thirty seventh season of Jeopardy!