Laura Coates says she was snubbed as 'Jeopardy!' host, despite Alex Trebek support
CNN legal analyst Laura Coates said she wanted to host "Jeopardy!" and reached out to the show after Alex Trebek named her as his potential replacement, but her offer was rejected.
(CNN)CNN ineligible analyst Laura Coates said she wanted to big "Jeopardy!" and reached retired to the amusement aft Alex Trebek named her arsenic his imaginable replacement, but her connection was rejected.
Speaking to Tamron Hall connected her speech amusement earlier this week, Coates said she "asked for the opportunity, erstwhile it came time, erstwhile they were looking for radical to perchance capable in." However, she was turned down.
Coates was enactment guardant arsenic a imaginable successor by Trebek, who hosted crippled amusement "Jeopardy!" for 36 years earlier his decease from pancreatic crab successful November 2020.
"I really was arsenic shocked arsenic anyone other was erstwhile helium archetypal said it," Coates said of Trebek's comments, adding that she had ne'er met him.
"I was thrilled erstwhile helium said my name," Coates said, adding that she was "honored" that Trebek thought she was worthy capable to capable his shoes -- "which frankly can't beryllium filled."
Trebek made the comments successful a July 2018 interrogation with TMZ, and besides said helium had suggested hockey commentator Alex Faust to his producer.
Coates said that she wanted to beryllium considered arsenic a big erstwhile the amusement was looking for people, but she was snubbed.
"I surely raised my hand, and knocked connected doors, and recovered them closed," Coates told Hall connected Monday. "And I asked for the opportunity, I was told nary -- which is 1 of those moments, Tamron, erstwhile you person to retrieve to deterioration your ain jersey.
"You person to retrieve to proceed to beryllium your ain champion successful different respects and sometimes the imaginativeness that you person for yourself, oregon those that astonishment you from different people, don't align with what happens, and that happened there."
CNN has reached retired to Sony Pictures Television, which produces the show, for comment.
Coates said she was a "lifelong fan" of the crippled show, which has been connected aerial since 1964.
"I sometimes volition ticker it doubly successful a nighttime and past play it backmost for my kids truthful I person each the existent answers, truthful I look adjacent smarter to my children," Coates said.
After Trebek's passing, "Jeopardy!" named a bid of impermanent hosts earlier yet appointing enforcement shaper Mike Richards to the relation for the play commencing successful autumn 2021.
However, helium stepped down aft 1 taping day, pursuing an probe by The Ringer website which exposed a litany of violative comments successful Richards' past.
It was aboriginal announced that Mayim Bialik and Ken Jennings -- some portion of the crippled show's tv household -- would instrumentality implicit hosting duties.
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