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‘Jeopardy!’ Host Ken Jennings Apologizes to Contestant for Sexist Clue: ‘A Little Problematic’

Host Ken Jennings apologized to a female contestant on 'Jeopardy!' after the game show used a sexist clue.

After acknowledging that Wallace had the correct answer, Jennings admitted that the phrase, coined by Dorothy Parker, didn’t hold up. “Frankly, I don’t need to hear Ken read an obviously outdated and inappropriate clue and then call it ‘problematic,’” a viewer wrote in the Reddit thread for the episode. ’s alternating hosts, stabilizing the long-running game show after a surprisingly tumultuous effort to replace Alex Trebek.

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