Jeopardy star Ken Jennings apologises for resurfaced tweets with ableist messaging – 9TheFIX

Jeopardy! all-star Ken Jennings, who’s set to guest host the quiz show beginning on Jan. 11, has apologized after tweets with ableist messaging resurfaced earlier this year.
“I just wanted to own up to the fact that over the years on Twitter, I’ve definitely tweeted some unartful and insensitive things,” he wrote in the first of five tweets. “Sometimes they worked as jokes in my head and I was dismayed to see how they read on screen.”
His apology comes in the wake of recent criticism over the old…

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