Update 7/26/21:
LeVar Burton starts his stint as guest host of Jeopardy! tonight!
.@levarburton is excited to start the week as our next guest host! pic.twitter.com/sUSfZCApF2
— Jeopardy! (@Jeopardy) July 26, 2021
Update: 4/22/21:
It looks like the petition worked, yesterday Jeopardy! announced the list of guest hosts to finish out their 37th season and LeVar Burton is on the list, in addition to Robin Roberts, Joe Buck (who according to rumors is in the running for permanent host of the show), George Stephanopoulos and David Faber.
We can finally tell you! Here is the final group of guest hosts to close out Season 37:
• Robin Roberts
• George Stephanopoulos
• David Faber
• Joe Buck
• LeVar Burton!https://t.co/iAPNyy29pu pic.twitter.com/Twgef7i6b5— Jeopardy! (@Jeopardy) April 21, 2021
People are getting serious about LeVar Burton becoming the new host of Jeopardy!, a petition is circulating calling for Burton to be considered for the job, at first Burton wasn’t too optimistic about his chances but then changed his mind about the position. On Monday, Burton reposted the link to the petition on Twitter, and seems to be jumping in head first to showing his interest to hosting the show.
[Related: Aaron Rodgers to serve as guest host of Jeopardy!]
Leaving this here in the event the powers that be are listening… https://t.co/xB3x8atDCv
— LeVar Burton (@levarburton) April 6, 2021
At the time of posting, the petition has received over 160,000 signatures on their original goal of 150,000, which has now been pushed to 200,000. The petition lives on Change.org and describes Burton’s career as the perfect launch to host Jeopardy!, from hosting 21 seasons of PBS’ “Reading Rainbow,” starring as the brainiac engineer Geordi La Forge on Star Trek: The Next Generation, as well as telling the story of Kunta Kinte in Alex Haley’s Roots mini-series. If you want to sign the petition, you can do that on Change.org
(Photo Credit: Reuters/KB/KR)
