Ken Jennings from “Jeopardy!” apologizes for insensitive tweets

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Past tweets have reappeared after it was announced that Jennings will be the first guest host of “Jeopardy!” after the death of longtime host Alex Trebek in November after a battle with pancreatic cancer.

Jennings wrote on Twitter on Wednesday: “Hey, I just wanted to think about the fact that over the years, on Twitter, I’ve definitely posted a few things that are unwise and insensitive.”

“Sometimes they worked like jokes in my head and I was dismayed to see them read on the screen,” he wrote. “In the past, I would usually leave bad tweets just so they could crash. At least that could lead to clever answers and even advocacy. Deleting them meant painting a mistake.”

He added that leaving the tweets up, he thought that “maybe he gave the impression that I’m standing next to every failed joke I’ve ever posted here.” He said that’s not the case.

“Sometimes I said stupid things in a bad way and I want to apologize to people who were (rightly!) Offended,” he read in a tweet. “It wasn’t my intention to hurt anyone, but that doesn’t matter: I was wrong and I’m really sorry.”

Some Twitter users responded by sharing some of the now deleted tweets, including one from 2014 in which Jennings wrote “Nothing sadder than a hot person in a wheelchair.” He he apologized for that tweet in 2018 writing “it was such an inept joke that it meant something very different in my head and I regret reading it clearly!”

Jennings ended her tweets on Wednesday ahead.

“If 2020 has taught us anything, it is that we should be kinder to each other,” he wrote. “I look forward to moving towards 2021 with this in mind.”

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