Though Yogesh Raut went residence with $500,000, he was seemingly not totally proud of host Ken Jennings, and the way issues performed out on Jeopardy! Masters. The newly-crowned champion wrote on Fb that the host mispronounced his title and the sport present edited out when he requested him to say it accurately.
On Saturday, June 7, Raut shared a prolonged publish on Fb alongside along with his interview on the Inside Jeopardy! Podcast. “My remaining pair of interviews on the present reduce out every little thing I needed to say about racism (as anticipated) and in addition a superb portion of my thank-you’s, together with lots of the folks I thanked by title,” he began off.
“In addition they reduce out me saying, ‘Ken, when Neilesh [Vinjamuri] was up right here he made some extent of thanking you for saying his title accurately, and I’d like to do the identical — simply as quickly as you begin.’ (Additionally not a massively stunning elision.)”
When Ken Jennings launched Raut, Victoria Groce, and Juveria Zaheer through the remaining Masters episode, Jennings seemingly obtained the champ’s first and final names each unsuitable.
He launched Raut as “Yo-GESH Raut.” Nonetheless, quite a few web pronunciation websites say his first title is pronounced “Yo-gaish.” His final title was additionally known as out as R-out (rhyming with “shout”), whereas on-line strategies are that it needs to be pronounced R-oat (sounding like “wrote.”)
See Jennings pronounce Raut’s full title within the clip under (0:46).
Followers responding to Raut’s Fb publish have been supportive of his feedback.
“They didn’t do an excellent modifying job. You would inform that one thing was reduce off. I’m glad you mentioned it right here! Oh, and belatedly on this publish, A BIG CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR WIN!!!” certainly one of his followers mentioned.
“Congratulations! And I’ve all the time identified your title to be pronounced phonetically- what’s the right approach?” one other requested.
“I believed it was Yo-gesh. Is that right?” replied one fan. Raut didn’t remark again to verify.
Additionally on Fb, Raut shared that his thanks-yous to Jeopardy! manufacturing employees was additionally reduce. “I’d prefer to moreover thank Jimmy McGuire and Mitch the sound man for constantly saying my title accurately,” he wrote. McGuire is a stage supervisor at Sony Photos Studios.
The Jeopardy! champion additionally revealed he had a mishap whereas in California for the present. He thanked the “Good Samaritan” whose title he forgot who helped him “escape critical accidents” when he fell down the escalator at LAX airport in Los Angeles. “However I’ll do my finest to see that they get thanked on nationwide TV!” he mentioned.
Jeopardy! Masters, Season 3, now streaming on Hulu