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Perhaps he actually is a recreation supervisor!
New York Jets star quarterback Rodgers was truly “probably the most ready” amongst a pool of different big-time celebrities to succeed the late nice Alex Trebek, a fired “Jeopardy!” host claimed.
Mike Richards, 48, the previous “Jeopardy!” producer who hosted the present for someday after Trebek’s dying, revealed Rodgers checked off all of the containers to be the entrance runner for the job in 2021 – however his on-field profession stood as a roadblock.
“Aaron Rodgers was positively probably the most ready,” Richards told People. “I used to be blown away by that — the depth during which he prepped — and he was so pretty to everybody on workers.”
“However finally I nervous about his different job that he does on a reasonably excessive degree. I used to be like, ‘How are you going to work this out with soccer scheduling?’ He stated, ‘You’ll determine it out!’” Richards added.
Aaron Rodgers isn’t any stranger to “Jeopardy!”, as he was a visitor host for the present throughout a two-week stint that had followers raving over his fill-in efficiency.
The quarterback raised $236,725 on the present for the North Valley Group Basis, a non-profit group based mostly in his hometown in Chico, Calif.
Richards stated Rodgers was an enormous fan of the present, which performed a component in why he stood out over different visitor hosts like ABC’s Good Morning America host Robin Roberts and former CBS anchor Katie Couric.
CNN anchor Anderson Cooper, TV star Mayim Bialik, and present host Ken Jennings have been additionally within the combine.
Rodgers was additionally a contestant on the present, the place he received the “Superstar Jeopardy!’’ event in 2015, when he competed towards astronaut Mark Kelly and “Shark Tank” entrepreneur Kevin O’Leary.
Rodgers stated he would’ve accepted a suggestion if he’d been requested to take the gig full-time.
Nonetheless, Richards was finally given the job over Rodgers — leaving “Jeopardy!” followers skeptical as to how the previous producer of the present pulled it off.
“Nobody was extra stunned than me,” Richards, additionally an ex-host of the truth sequence “Magnificence & the Geek” and “New Yr’s Rocking Eve in 2005,” stated. “Everybody was so indignant as a result of it regarded like I had gone right into a room and picked myself.”
“They advised me, ‘We’d such as you to be the host of the syndicated model of ‘Jeopardy!’ I paused, and stated, ‘Oh wow. Thanks. What’s the media plan?’ As a result of I used to be very involved that this was going to be scrutinized as intently as a Presidential election,” Richards stated.
Richards was fired after one episode into his new internet hosting gig when the Anti-Defamation League referred to as for an investigation into derogatory feedback he made on “The Randumb Present” in 2014.
The previous “Jeopardy!” host apologized for the feedback made, nevertheless it got here on the similar time he was slammed with a wrongful termination and discrimination lawsuit filed by the present’s fashions.
