Did someone finally get the goat from the GOAT?
“Danger!” Champion Ken Jennings has taken to Twitter to apologize for previous ‘insensitive’ content he shared on the platform.
In a thread posted Wednesday afternoon, Jennings, 46, wrote a mea culpa for past jokes he tweeted, expressing regret for “stupid things” in his past on social media.
“Hey, I just wanted to admit that I’ve definitely tweeted some thoughtless and insensitive things on Twitter over the years,” he wrote in the five-part thread. “Sometimes they worked like jokes in my head and I was baffled to see how they read on the screen.
“In the past, I usually left bad tweets so they could be submerged. That way, they could at least lead to smart answers and even advocacy. Removing them felt like making a mistake, ”he continued. But I think that exercise may have given the impression that I’m behind every botched joke I’ve ever posted here. Not at all!”
He presumably was referring to a now-deleted 2014 post that read “ Nothing Sad Than a Hot Person in a Wheelchair, ” which sparked the ire of Twitter users in 2018 and led to him voicing “Regret” after a “public flogging.” And in 2015, he joked about a “Star Wars” fan – who had terminal cancer – who went to watch the franchise entry “The Force Awakens” before he died. “It can’t be a good sign that every fan who saw the new Star Wars movie died shortly after,” Jennings wrote at the time.
In Wednesday’s tweets, Jennings seemed ready to move on for his new performance: he’ll start next week as a fill-in for “Jeopardy!” host Alex Trebek, who died of pancreatic cancer in November at the age of 80.
“Sometimes I said stupid things in a stupid way and I want to apologize to people who were (rightly!) Offended,” he continued in his apology. ‘I didn’t mean to hurt anyone, but it doesn’t matter: I screwed up, and I’m really sorry.
“If 2020 has taught us anything, it’s that we should be kinder to each other,” he added, ending with, “I’m looking forward to moving to 2021 with that in mind.”
While some fans applauded him “Owning his st” by the wire, others just saw it as an opportune time to express regret, with one person suggests, “The preemptive apology for old tweets before you get the Jeopardy gig. Smart and another question, “Is this step 1 of formally accepting the dangerous act?”
Neither Jennings – who was crowned “Greatest of All Time” player on “Jeopardy!” early this year – neither has another celeb been confirmed as a permanent replacement for Trebek, whose final shows will air January 4-8. said this year the job would be ‘fun’.