Mike Richards is now out as executive producer of Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune, effective immediately
Photo: Earl Gibson III/Getty Images Mike Richards’s stunning downfall ended on Tuesday when Sony Pictures Television announced he is out as executive producer of Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune, effective immediately.
It’s a fitting end to a saga that baffled us from the start. This is hard to believe, but it was just 27 days ago when we were all asking ourselves Who the fuck is Mike Richards? in response to the news that he was the front-runner to succeed the late Alex Trebek as the host of Jeopardy!, one of the most coveted roles in television.
When Richards was officially announced as the new host on August 11, it raised more than a few eyebrows — in part because of the several harassment and pregnancy discrimination lawsuits his team faced while he was the big boss at The Price is Right, and also because, as Jeopardy!’s executive producer, it felt a bit like Dick Cheney running the search for vice presidential candidate only to choose himself at the end.
Then, on August 18, The Ringer published a story that in part reviewed 41 episodes of The Randumb Show, a show Richards hosted between 2013 and 2014, and where he apparently had a habit of making casually sexist remarks After the celebrity iCloud photo hack of 2014, for example, Richards asked his much younger co-host whether she had ever taken nude selfies.
Two days later, Richards was out as Jeopardy!’s host. “It pains me that these past incidents and comments have cast such a shadow on Jeopardy! as we look to start a new chapter,” Richards said in a statement at the time. He went on to say that while he had been “deeply honored” to become host of the daily syndicated show, “it has become clear that moving forward as host would be too much of a distraction.
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