Mayim Bialik Is Being Very Clear: She Wants the Permanent Jeopardy! Gig

Mayim Bialik knows that you can’t get what you don’t ask for. For her, that means putting her own name from and center when it comes to the Jeopardy! hosting gig. On Sunday night at the Critics Choice Awards, Bialik was walking the red carpet when she was stopped by Entertainment Tonight. When the outlet asked her what the likelihood is of seeing her take permanent hosting duties, she confirmed that no official decision has been made that she knows of, but she sure wouldn’t mind taking the gig off their hands.

“I would love that,” Mayim told Entertainment Tonight. “I like to say, [I’ve] lived season to season since about 13 years old. So, what I know is I’m hosting until May 6, and beyond that, hopefully, I’ll know more before May 6.” Bialik has been splitting duties helming the show with former winner Ken Jennings this season—Bialik hosting primetime specials while Jennings works on the series proper. Bialik added, “There’s no other job I would rather have. I love my sitcom work, I do. I love all the other things I do. I love the podcast. But I absolutely have never had a better job.”

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Like just about everything else in the year of our Lord 2022, everyone has strong opinions about who should take over hosting duties, especially after Mike Richards’s controversial ousting following the announcement that he would take over as host. There’s been of a Jeopardy! reckoning with other past hosts, like Green Bay quarterback Aaron Rodgers who faced an onslaught of questions following his turns with the microphone. Bialik and Jennings have also faced their own share of interrogations—Bialik answered to some past statements she had made about vaccines as well as women and the availability of c-sections, while Jennings owned up to his own problematic past tweets.

As for what the future holds, Bialik remains hopeful: “I’m not a person who leans deeply into intuition. I wish that I was. But this was a case where I intuitively felt something very special had happened for me in my life. From just those two days [of initial taping], I said to the crew, ‘I don’t want to leave. I really don’t want to leave.”

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