‘Jeopardy!’ champ Sam Buttrey: I declined a seat in Titanic submersible

slamming the show’s other host Mayim Bialik. “Ken Jennings is back hosting Jeopardy. All seems right in the world.

As much as they love the game show, "Jeopardy!" fans are known for their overt criticism of the hosts, the contestants and the clues. Tuesday night was no exception, when Ken Jennings returned as host, taking over for Mayim Bialik. Although Jennings and Bialik are both hosts of the show, they typically split the season.

Bill Paxton feared the Titanic submersible dives. In the wake of the Titanic tourist submersible tragedy, ET is looking back at its interview with the late actor back in 2003, when he admitted that he was nervous about going deep down in the ocean to see the wreckage of the famed ship.The actor, who starred in as Brock Lovett, spoke to ET ahead of the premiere of, the documentary in which director James Cameron discussed his inspiration for the film and took several people, including Paxton, on an unscripted tour of the famous wreckage.«Each dive, I had to kind of look myself in the mirror and go 'OK, are you ready for this?'» Paxton, who died in 2017, told ET at the time.

took to Twitter on Tuesday to comment on Seacrest being named the new “Wheel of Fortune” host — and mock the long, winding road “Jeopardy!” went on to find a replacement for the late Alex Trebek.(Trebek died in late 2020 after a lengthy battle with pancreatic cancer.)“Wheel of Fortune went about this all wrong,” Holzhauer tweeted sarcastically. “First you subject the contestants and viewers to an endless parade of temps who don’t prepare before hosting Then the producer in charge of the search says ‘Actually, *I* would be the perfect host’ Then ‘jk we have two hosts now.'”Jeopardy interim guest hosts included Katie Couric, Anderson Cooper, LeVar Burton, Aaron Rodgers, Dr.

highest-earning all-time “Jeopardy!” contestant, pulled back the curtain on his relationship with fellow champions Ken Jennings and James Holzhauer. “It’s both a brotherhood and it’s very competitive,” Rutter, 45, told The Post on Monday.“If the three of us are in the green room at the ‘GOAT [‘Greatest of All Time’] Tournament,’ we’re being cordial to each other.

James Holzhauer, one of the most successful contestants of all time, has an idea about why fans are getting so frustrated about the show lately: behind-the-scenes issues with the show’s crew.In a new interview with TV Insider, Holzhauer was asked about any changes he would make to the show if he could, and his answer was definitely interesting.“There has been a lot of turnover backstage, I will say,” he began. “The whole production team has turned over, so you kind of see some of the things were lost when they changed hands there.”He continued, “I think it’s still a great show, but it could use a little tweaking here and there.

The Titan submersible's mothership returned to shore on the town of St John's on Newfoundland Island on Saturday (June 24). Rescue ships also made their return, bearing the weight of the loss of five men onboard OceanGate's submersible.

Titanic movie director James Cameron, who himself visited the Titanic wreckage site over 30 times, has made a statement about the tragedy on the OceanGate Titan submersible that is getting attention.

James Cameron has a great deal of experience with the difficult and potentially dangerous process of such an adventure.The wreckage site has once again gripped the public's attention after OceanGate Expeditions' tourist submersible, Titan, went missing on June 18 while carrying five passengers during a dive down to the Titanic's final resting place. Five days later, Rear Admiral John Mauger, the commander of the U.S.

"Jeopardy!" is still a game show mainstay for many viewers, but there is no denying that it has been getting a huge amount of criticism recently. James Holzhauer, one of the most successful contestants of all time, has an idea about why fans are getting so frustrated about the show lately: behind-the-scenes issues with the show's crew.

Several experts are speaking out about what might have happened underwater during the catastrophic tragedy that claimed the lives of the five victims aboard the OceanGate submersible headed to the Titanic wreckage site.

The families of the five victims who were passengers aboard the OceanGate Titan submersible vessel en route to the Titanic wreckage site have all released statements.

“Titanic” director and deep sea explorer James Cameron is opening up about when he first learned that the Titan tourist submersible had likely imploded, days before debris was discovered.

The families of three of the victims of the Titanic submersible implosion have paid tribute to them as 'beloved, dedicated' fathers and sons.

director and deep sea explorer James Cameron is opening up about when he first learned that the Titan tourist submersible had likely imploded, days before debris was discovered.On Thursday, Rear Admiral John Mauger, the commander of the U.S. Coast Guard who lead the search and rescue operation, announced that all aboard the vessel — owned by OceanGate Expeditions — were presumed «dead» following a «catastrophic implosion» and the discovery of debris.Cameron, meanwhile, spoke with CNN's Anderson Cooper Thursday, and said he'd learned on Monday that the submersible had likely imploded, and that the five passengers had likely been killed.«I've been living with it for a few days now, as [have] some of my other colleagues in the deep submergence community,» Cameron, 68, shared.According to the filmmaker — who has spent decades as an active and avid deep sea diver, and has taken over 30 trips to the Titanic wreckage — he was on a boat by himself on Sunday when Titan undertook its ill-fated plunge.«Then the first I heard about it was on Monday morning. I immediately got on my network, because it's a very small community… and found out some information within about a half hour that they had lost comms and they had lost tracking simultaneously,» Cameron explained.

Brian Szasz has been making headlines for various reasons amid the disappearance and presumed death of his stepdad Hamish Harding, who was one of the five passengers of OceanGate’s submersible.

presumed «dead» along with the four other passengers on the vessel, was married to the descendent of a couple who died in the very shipwreck his expedition aimed to see.Per, the , Stockton's wife, Wendy Rush, is the great-great-granddaughter of Isidor and Ida Straus, who remained onboard the sinking Titanic so that others could escape to safety in their place.The couple was the real-life inspiration behind the heart-wrenching scene in James Cameron's movie, in which an elderly couple holds onto each other in bed as water rushes into their room.Wendy's Titanic connection was confirmed by the  through genealogical records and by the Straus Historical Society — an educational nonprofit.

James Cameron — director of the 1997 blockbuster Titanic who has visited the wreckage more than 30 times — has responded to the Titan submersible disaster.

Experts fear that the bodies of the five Titanic submersible victims may never be found after the missing vessel imploded in the Atlantic Ocean.

James Cameron is speaking out following the tragic news regarding the 21-foot submersible, Titan, that was carrying five men on a dive to explore the wreckage site of the Titanic.On Thursday, Rear Admiral John Mauger, the commander of the U.S. Coast Guard, announced that all aboard are presumed «dead» following a «catastrophic implosion.»Cameron, who directed -- based on the 1912 accident that sunk the cruise liner — and has taken 33 trips to the scene of the wreckage himself, spoke about the submersible's final voyage.«A number of the top players in the deep submergence engineering community even wrote letters to the company, saying that what they were doing was too experimental to carry passengers and that it needed to be certified,» Cameron told ABC News during an interview about the precautions that came ahead of the mission. ‘Titanic’ director James Cameron on the ‘catastrophic implosion’ of Titan submersible: “I’m struck by the similarity of the Titanic disaster itself, where the captain was repeatedly warned about ice ahead of his ship and yet he steamed at full speed into an ice field." pic.twitter.com/vO8JkCXS5fThe Canadian filmmaker shared that he saw similarities between the fate of the submersible and the doomed ocean liner.«I’m struck by the similarity of the Titanic disaster itself, where the captain was repeatedly warned about ice ahead of his ship, and yet he steamed at full speed into an ice field on a moonless night and many people died as a result,» he said.