Jeopardy! fans beg Ken Jennings to go on DWTS as his response to casting idea is their ‘highlight of the week’
KEN Jennings has responded to fans’ demands to get on the dance floor.
The Jeopardy! host answered questions from followers on Instagram on Thursday.
GettyKen Jennings addressed a question about appearing on Dancing With the Stars[/caption]
GettyHe told his Instagram followers he wanted to ‘save them the indignity’ of him taking part[/caption]
In the post, Ken, 50, filled fans in on topics ranging from his time on the show to food, and also addressed whether he’d appear on Dancing With the Stars.
“Would you ever do Dancing With the Stars?” one fan simply asked.
“Nobody in America wants to see me do Dancing With the Stars, I promise. I will save you that indignity,” he joked as his answer.
In the comment section, however, lots of Ken’s fans disagreed with his words.
“Um…I would love this man on DWTS. He needs to do it please and thank you,” one person said.
“Ken, we are begging for DWTS,” said a second social media user.
“Okay seriously y’all, can we all legit start an official campaign or petition to get KEN ON DWTS!! Even if he doesn’t want to… I think he would be great and fun to watch… (wayyyyy worse people have done it),” wrote a third.
“Highlight of my entire week,” another commenter added about Ken’s hilarious answers.
GETTING MEAN
Ken’s firm response to fans about DWTS came after he admitted he can lose his patience with contestants.
The game show host explained that as the games progress, he can get “mean” when contestants don’t stick to the rules.
“The rules are actually different in the first and second rounds,” he explained on the Inside Jeopardy! podcast.
“In the first round, I get to remind them very sternly. I say, ‘Yes, but please remember your phrases.’
“In the second round, I might give them a second to figure it out and then I have to rule against them and say, ‘Oh, it was Grover Cleveland, but you had to say, ‘What is Grover Cleveland?'”
The television stare concluded, “It gets meaner as the game progresses, just like life you will find.”
Jeopardy! Universe
Jeopardy! first aired in 1964 until 1975. Then the nighttime version began in 1974. Since then, many spinoffs of the game show have emerged. Here they all are:
Jeopardy! – (syndicated) 1974 to present, weekdays on ABC at 7 pm ET.
Tournament of Champions – 1984 to present, features the top champions who have appeared on the show since the last tournament.
Second Chance Tournament – 2022 to present features hand-selected non-winners from the season prior, where the prize is entry into Champions Wildcard.
Champions Wildcard – 2023 to present, features all one, two and three-day champions from the season prior worth entry into the Tournament of Champions.
Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament (syndication) – 2023 to present, features past greats invited by producers to vie for a slot in Masters.
Jeopardy! Masters (primetime) – 2023 to present, features the six highest-ranked Jeopardy! champions competing against each other.
Celebrity Jeopardy! (primetime) – 1992 to present, has celebrities compete against each other to raise money for charity.
Pop Culture Jeopardy (streaming) – 2024 to present, will feature teams of three tasked with pop culture trivia on Amazon Prime, host and airdate TBD
Jeopardy! has done away with specialized tournaments like its College Tournaments, Kids Week, and Professor’s Tournament to gear towards a more sports-like model, with Masters being the top of the Jeopardy pyramid.
Other versions of Jeopardy! have fizzled out throughout the years as well, like Sports Jeopardy!.
RATINGS CRISIS
This year’s Jeopardy! Masters, which took place this month, saw viewership fall by 1 million compared to last year.
Fans think they may have gotten to the bottom of the slump, saying that the show has been airing too many tournaments.
“It’s clear there’s heavy tournament fatigue based on the near-daily posts on social media… I’d bet that’s the culprit,” one person said on Reddit.
“Tournament fatigue as well as fatigue of seeing the same contestants over and over,” agreed a second.
GettyDespite Ken’s firm words, fans wanted to start an ‘official campaign’ to get him on DWTS[/caption]
GettyKen recently opened up about Jeopardy! and admitted he gets ‘mean’ on the show[/caption]
GettyJeopardy! currently saw a ratings slump of 1 million viewers, with fans saying they were getting ‘tired’ of its tournaments[/caption]
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