LeVar Burton Will Guest Host 'Jeopardy!' Fans Are Over the Rainbow.

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This is “Jeopardy!” — with your host, LeVar Burton.

After a social media campaign to get Burton, a star of “Reading Rainbow” and “Star Trek: The Next Generation,” into a guest-host slot on “Jeopardy!,” the show announced Wednesday that he would indeed step up in the last week of July.

“Our goal has been to present a wide variety of guest hosts with different skill sets and backgrounds on our path to finding a permanent host,” the show’s executive producer, Mike Richards, said in a statement. “Our passionate fans are telling us what they like, and we are listening.”

Fans were predictably thrilled.

“Butterfly in the sky, I’m twice as high about the @levarburton news!” one Twitter post read.

But there may have been one person even more excited than Burton’s fans: the actor himself.

“THANK YOU… to all y’all for your passionate support!” he tweeted.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/21/arts/television/levar-burton-jeopardy-host.html

Link to tweet

[Clash City Rocker]

1. Wait, he's coming after Joe Buck?

He’ll look even better, coming after that incompetent jerk.

[Poiuyt]

2. Aaron Rodgers

Nuff said

[malaise]

3. i like Aaron and Anderson so far