Ken Jennings Reflects on His Final Conversation With Alex Trebek

What is tension?

That is what Ken Jennings was sensation when tasked with having over Jeopardy! web hosting obligations quickly adhering to the demise of the show’s longtime host, Alex Trebek. The beloved 80 year old handed away on Nov. 8 right after battling phase 4 pancreatic most cancers. 

After Trebek’s closing demonstrates, taped just before his demise, air this 7 days, Jennings—famously a Jeopardy! champion himself—is slated to just take over as interim host, adopted by other visitor hosts from inside of the exhibit family. 

“I will not consider I’ve been a lot more nervous in my life,” Jennings told E!’s Scott Tweedie. “The Chase is a cakewalk in contrast to acquiring to host Jeopardy! just for the reason that it is really nerve-wracking to know the legacy and the size of the footwear you happen to be filling.”

Just two months just after Trebek’s passing, his absence in the world is strongly felt. “Just to be frank,” he ongoing, “no one wants me there. I never want me there. We all want to see Alex there for 100 decades in a perfect globe and, you know, I truly just needed to do the ideal I could so as not to enable him down and Jeopardy! viewers down, so I felt a whole lot of strain.”