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Proudly owning up. New Jeopardy! host Mike Richards apologized after insensitive jokes he made up to now resurfaced on-line.
“It’s humbling to confront a very embarrassing second of misjudgment, thoughtlessness, and insensitivity from practically a decade in the past,” the manager producer, 46, stated in a press release to The Ringer. “Trying again now, there is no such thing as a excuse, after all, for the feedback I made on this podcast and I’m deeply sorry. The podcast was supposed to be a sequence of irreverent conversations between longtime mates who had a historical past of joking round. Even with the passage of time, it’s greater than clear that my makes an attempt to be humorous and provocative weren’t acceptable, and I’ve eliminated the episodes.”
Richards additionally promised to do higher. “My obligations at present as a father, husband, and a public persona who speaks to many individuals via my position on tv means I’ve substantial and critical obligations as a job mannequin, and I intend to reside as much as them,” he concluded.
The outlet printed a bit on Wednesday, August 18, that known as out the sport present host’s offensive remarks from a Worth Is Proper-themed podcast titled “The Randumb Present,” which he cohosted from 2013 to 2014. In response to the report, he stated one-piece swimsuits made girls “look actually frumpy and obese,” inspired cohost Beth Triffon to audition for Taiwanese roles as a result of she is brief and stated, “Ixnay on the ose-nay. … She’s not ew-Jay,” throughout a dialogue about huge noses.
Richards was a controversial choose to take over internet hosting obligations for Jeopardy!, partly due to the discrimination allegations and lawsuits he has confronted whereas working as an government producer on The Worth Is Proper. He addressed the accusations in an emailed assertion to Jeopardy! staffers earlier this month, claiming that the characterization of his feedback “doesn’t mirror the fact of who I’m or how we labored collectively on The Worth Is Proper.”
The California native was introduced as the brand new host of the long-running sport present on August 11. He’ll take over for the late Alex Trebek, who died in November 2020 after battling pancreatic most cancers. Mayim Bialik, in the meantime, will helm spinoff specials.
“We’re thrilled to start the subsequent chapter of America’s Favourite Quiz Present with Mike internet hosting our every day present and Mayim internet hosting new variations of Jeopardy!,” Sony Footage Chairman Ravi Ahuja stated in a press release on the time. “We took this choice extremely significantly. An incredible quantity of labor and deliberation has gone into it, maybe greater than has ever gone into the collection of hosts for a present – deservedly so as a result of it’s Jeopardy! and we’re following the incomparable Alex Trebek. A senior group of Sony Footage Tv executives pored over footage from each episode, reviewed analysis from a number of panels and focus teams, and obtained useful enter from our key companions and Jeopardy! viewers.”
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