Ken Jennings from ‘Jeopardy!’ apologize for the insensitive tweets

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

Jennings on Wednesday tweeted, “Hey, I just wanted to keep in mind that over the years on Twitter, I’ve definitely posted some fun and insensitive things.”

“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 usually left bad tweets so they could get wrapped up. At least that way they could give clever answers and even make an impact. Deleting them seemed to whiten a mistake.”

Added who, leaving the tweets, believed that “perhaps it gave the impression that I am next to every failed joke I have posted here.” He said it was not so.

“Sometimes I said silly things in a silly way and I want to apologize to people who (rightly!) Had been offended,” another tweet said. “It wasn’t my intention to hurt anyone, but that doesn’t matter. I’ve fucked up and I’m so 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 apologized for this tweet in 2018 writing “was such an inept joke that it meant something very different in my head and I’m sorry for its simple and capable reading.”

Jennings ended his tweets Wednesday looking forward.

“If 2020 has taught us anything, it’s that we should be kinder to each other,” he wrote. “I look forward to going into 2021 with that in mind.”

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