The next batch of stars heading to Jeopardy! has been announced.
On Tuesday (February 2), the long-running game show announced that Dr. Oz, Anderson Cooper, Savannah Guthrie and Dr. Sanjay Gupta are among the forthcoming guest hosts set to take over the show following Alex Trebek's death. As with previous guests hosts, a donation will be made to a charity of their choice equal to the cumulative winnings of their contestants on their episodes. "We look forward to each guest host bringing their unique abilities to the show and to our contestants winning a lot of money that we can match for charity," Jeopardy! executive producer Mike Richards said in a statement.
74-time champ Ken Jennings is currently guest hosting Jeopardy! and will be followed by Richards, Katie Couric, Aaron Rodgers, Bill Whitaker and Mayim Bialik.
In the meantime, Jennings has been paying tribute to the late Trebek by signing off each episode by saying, "Thank you, Alex." Over on Twitter, the all-time champ explained where the sign off was born. "'Thanks, Alex' was suggested as a sign-off by executive producer Mike Richards, and I’m glad he did. There wouldn’t be a show without Alex," Jennings wrote in a reply to a fan’s commentary on the sign off. "Every single time @KenJennings thanks Alex at the end of @Jeopardy, I get all choked up. I hope he never stops," the fan wrote in her initial message.
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