Bill Whitaker on the hoopla surrounded by guest-hosting Jeopardy!: "I had no idea that this was going to be this wild and crazy"

The Washington Post

“I have been really blown away by the coverage this all gets," says the 60 Minutes correspondent, who begins his two-week stint today, in an interview with The Washington Post. "I truly did think, silly me, that I was going to be a Jeopardy! guest host and carry on with my life as usual. But these hosts: They’re gossiped about, they’re tweeted about, they’re in People magazine, the Hollywood Reporter. I’m going, ‘Oh my God, I had no idea that this was going to be this wild and crazy.’” Whitaker admits there was a learning curve to hosting Jeopardy! “I work in television news, which is a totally different animal. I’m used to talking to one camera,” he said. “Here, you had, I think, four cameras — one swoops in from the side, you talk to that one at the end of one commercial, and then swoops to another one you have to talk to after a commercial, and then the contestants are over on the other side. The thing that I was most surprised about was just how fast-paced it is.”