Mayim Bialik Is ‘Not At All’ Surprised ‘Big Bang’ Alum Wil Wheaton Has Made ‘Celebrity Jeopardy’ Final (Exclusive)

It’s each led up to this. After respective rounds of contention wherever celebrities faced disconnected successful the eventual conflict of knowledge, the Celebrity Jeopardy! last has arrived. Ike Barinholtz, Wil Wheaton, and Patton Oswalt volition conflict for the rubric of Celebrity Jeopardy! champion and victor of the $1 cardinal expansive prize during the February 2 episode.

HollywoodLife spoke EXCLUSIVELY with Celebrity Jeopardy! big Mayim Bialik astir the title circular and her Big Bang Theory co-star Wil’s tally connected the show. Mayim said she’s “not astatine all” amazed that Wil has made it this far.

Wil Wheaton, Patton Oswalt, and Ike Barinholtz are the finalists connected ‘Celebrity Jeopardy!’ (ABC)

“Wil is 1 of those radical who has a immense magnitude of cognition that not lone helium has and tin callback quickly, which determination are plentifulness of astute radical who successful the situation of Jeopardy! would look similar they don’t cognize thing due to the fact that it’s the quality to get the buzzer, get the timing, not commencement crying due to the fact that you’re truthful anxious, which is what I would do, and beryllium capable to benignant of propulsion that accusation quickly… Wil’s ever been that idiosyncratic successful my life, who I knew knew tons of things astir tons of things. So it’s been precise amusive to spot him get to amusement that broadside of himself this way,” she told HollywoodLife.

Wil isn’t the lone Big Bang Theory co-star to effort Celebrity Jeopardy! Melissa Rauch competed earlier successful the season. If Celebrity Jeopardy! returns for different season, Mayim would emotion to spot much of her co-stars deed the podium.

“I deliberation that a batch of radical would astir apt emotion to see Jim Parsons, but I don’t deliberation it’s thing that helium would privation to do. Kunal Nayyar is idiosyncratic who would beryllium truly fun. I cognize he’s engaged filming a batch of different things,” Mayim explained. “That’s besides the happening that I deliberation radical don’t needfully realize. It’s a precise circumstantial filming docket and scheduling possibilities, truthful determination are astir apt a ton much celebrities that we conscionable couldn’t get for those dates. So my anticipation would beryllium that if we get to bash much that we get to grow out.”

The 47-year-old admitted that she “didn’t recognize however excited” she would get astir the Celebrity Jeopardy! tourney arsenic the contention went on. “I didn’t recognize however breathtaking the momentum would be. It truly builds successful complexity and intensity,” she said up of the last round.

Several comedians competed connected Celebrity Jeopardy! implicit the people of the season, which has made it hard for Mayim to support a consecutive look astatine times. “It’s precise hard,” Mayim said astir not laughing. “You person to besides understand, the episodes that you spot they’ve been edited, truthful they instrumentality retired each of my inappropriate giggling. There were decidedly respective times I had to pause.”

The travel to find a new Jeopardy! host(s) successful the aftermath of Alex Trebek’s death successful 2020 wasn’t easy. After Mike Richards stepped down pursuing a little tally arsenic host, Ken and Mayim served arsenic impermanent hosts. In July 2022, Ken and Mayim were named permanent co-hosts of the long-running crippled show.

Mayim noted that it’s been “great” sharing the podium with Ken and forging this caller section together. “I enactment connected Call Me Kat, which is my time job. We’re finishing our 3rd play connected Fox. Honestly, I enactment Jeopardy! erstwhile I’m connected hiatus. It’s been a analyzable docket to juggle,” the histrion admitted. ” I’m precise grateful that Ken and I tin stock that way. Ken besides was successful our play premiere of Call Me Kat twelvemonth truthful that was truly fun. I got to spot him extracurricular of the stage. People don’t recognize that helium and I are ne'er unneurotic due to the fact that erstwhile 1 of america is there, the different 1 is not. Even erstwhile we get to bash immoderate property together, it’s fun. He’s this icon. He’s a fable successful his ain close simply for the unthinkable and humanities tally that helium had connected Jeopardy! But besides it’s truly conscionable amusive to get to spot him successful the flesh. Also, I didn’t deliberation he’d beryllium tall. He’s truthful tall.”

Mayim Bialik is the big of ‘Celebrity Jeopardy!’ (ABC)

Following Celebrity Jeopardy!, a caller Jeopardy! tourney is connected the horizon. The High School Reunion tourney volition premiere connected February 20. The tourney volition diagnostic 27 erstwhile teen contestants who are returning to the Jeopardy! stage.

“It’s a small spot of a wherever are they now? For me, it’s breathtaking due to the fact that I person 2 teenagers. I person a 14 and a 17-year-old, truthful I’ll beryllium bringing them to those tapings due to the fact that I privation them to spot like, look, this should beryllium you,” Mayim told HollywoodLife. “I deliberation what’s truly bully that I get to enactment successful is not simply hosting but truly understanding, being portion of, and being integrated into the Jeopardy! community. It’s important to Jeopardy! that we travel people, that we travel their journey, that we spot wherever they ended up, and particularly for younger contestants to beryllium capable to spot the adults that they go is truly exciting. I’m precise excited for that. I get to effort and person much teenagers that I’m chill and spot if I tin win with strangers since my kids are not convinced.”

As for whether oregon not her kids would ever see doing Jeopardy! successful immoderate capacity, Mayim said, “No. I mean, I deliberation the stigma of mama being the big is astir apt capable to freak them out. My younger one’s a small shyer, but my older 1 would astir apt emotion the challenge. He does things similar Model UN and things similar that, truthful I deliberation helium would astir apt emotion that challenge. But I don’t know. I deliberation with maine it would beryllium a mess.”

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