Ken Jennings from ‘Jeopardy!’ apologizes for insensitive tweets

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The previous tweets resurfaced after it was announced that Jennings would be the first guest host of “Jeopardy!” after the death of longtime host Alex Trebek in November after a battle with pancreatic cancer.

Jennings tweeted Wednesday, “Hey, I just wanted to admit that over the years on Twitter I’ve definitely tweeted some excruciating and insensitive stuff.”

“Sometimes they worked like jokes in my head and I was amazed to see how they read on the screen,” he wrote. “In the past, I usually left bad tweets so they could be submerged. That way, at least, they could lead to smart replies and even advocacy.

He added that, by leaving the tweets, he believed that he “might have given the impression that I’m behind every botched joke I’ve ever posted here.” He said that was not the case.

“Sometimes I said stupid things in a stupid way and want to apologize to people who were (rightly!) Offended,” another tweet read. “I didn’t mean to hurt anyone, but it doesn’t matter: I screwed up 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 more sad than a hot person in a wheelchair.” He apologized for that tweet in 2018 writing “it was a joke so clumsy that it meant something completely different in my head and I regret just reading it!”

Jennings ended his tweets Wednesday by looking ahead.

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

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