Fans may have strong opinions when it comes to Ken Jennings vs. Mayim Bialik as their preferred Jeopardy! host, but the quiz show master is involved in a different rivalry that’s been brewing for even longer. Self-described game show villain James Holzhauer has been gunning for Jennings since 2020, when the now-host defeated him and Brad Rutter to be named the official Jeopardy! GOAT. It seems Holzhauer’s tactics might be getting to Jennings, too, as producer Sarah Whitcomb Foss revealed two amusing blunders from a recent episode that seem to prove the villain lives rent-free in the host’s head.
On the Inside Jeopardy! podcast, Sarah Whitcomb Foss said that due to a wild production schedule, the final episodes of Jeopardy! Masters — which aired in May — were actually taped in the same week as the syndicated episodes that ran last week, in mid-July. James Holzhauer took home the Trebek Trophy and $500,000 prize, but not before sending a pointed message to Ken Jennings to “stop ducking a rematch.” Foss relayed the Freudian slip that followed, when Jennings flubbed contestant Justin White’s name — twice! She said:
