New host for ‘Celebrity Jeopardy!’ has been revealed

“Movie star Jeopardy!” is getting a brand new emcee for its second spherical.

The star-filled sport present’s unique host Mayim Bialik is not going to be returning for the forthcoming season, in keeping with Entertainment Weekly.

Ken Jennings will as an alternative be changing the “Massive Bang Principle” actress, 47.

Whereas each nonetheless co-host the OG “Jeopardy!” collection, Bialik had additionally been internet hosting the A-list model solo.

The actress is reportedly refusing to move “Movie star Jeopardy!” so she will be able to keep united together with her friends engaged within the screenwriters’ and the actors’ strikes.

Bialik had even walked off the “Jeopardy!” set again in Might to face in solidarity with Hollywood creators.

Michele Loud, a scribe for the trivia present was on the picket traces and told Variety on the time: “Our phrases are on the display screen each evening. There isn’t any ‘Jeopardy!’ with out writers. With out us it’s simply an empty blue display screen.”

Loud and Bialik had been additionally joined by collection’ writers Jim Rhine and Billy Wisse.

“Movie star Jeopardy” is about to return subsequent month, and the mother or father present had only one week of filming left for season 39 when Bialik first dropped out earlier this 12 months. Season 40 remains to be slated to make a comeback within the fall.

Showrunner Michael Davis acquired candid on his Inside Jeopardy! podcast not too long ago the place he mentioned how the strikes have affected each trivia exhibits and “derailed” them.

The brand new season of “Jeopardy” will proceed on with “a mix of fabric that our [Writer’s Guild of America] writers wrote earlier than the strike, which remains to be within the database, and materials that has been re-deployed from a number of seasons of the present.”

Contestants from the previous may also be recycled to create content material.

Davies defined that it “wouldn’t be honest to have new contestants making their first look” on the present with materials that isn’t unique or that was penned previous to the strikes.

“So we determined that basically we wanted to ask again and provides a second probability typically to gamers who most likely thought that their probability to return again and play on the Alex Trebek stage had gone endlessly,” he stated.

The TV producer additionally revealed a elevate in prize cash for the upcoming fortieth season. 

Whereas contestants who will compete in season two of “Movie star Jeopardy!” haven’t been disclosed but, the pilot season included starlets similar to Simu Liu, Constance Wu, Iliza Shlesinger, Ray Romano, Patton Oswalt, Michael Cera and B.J. Novak.

The Put up has reached out to Bialik and “Jeopardy!” reps for remark.