Two well-known sport present emcees had cause to have a good time on Friday, Could 23. It was the birthday for each Jeopardy! host Ken Jennings and The Worth Is Proper host Drew Carey. Jennings turned 51 on Friday; Carey turned 67.
That connection has taken social media customers abruptly. “I used to be immediately years previous after I realized that Drew Carey and Ken Jennings share the identical birthday,” Reddit consumer bluegambit875 wrote in a latest publish on the r/gameshow subreddit. “Type of unbelievable that the hosts of the 2 hottest and well-known sport exhibits have the identical [birthday].”
A commenter on the thread confirmed the coincidence, writing, “Drew Carey and Ken Jennings had been born on the identical day 16 years aside (5/23/58 and 5/23/74).”
And one other social media consumer raved concerning the connection, per the Every day Categorical U.S. “Ken Jennings and Drew Carey on the identical day? That’s unbelievable,” that consumer wrote. “Completely happy birthday to the each of ya!”
Different well-known people born on Could 23 embody filmmaker Ryan Coogler, Dynasty star Joan Collins, The Strolling Lifeless veteran Melissa McBride, Normal Hospital star Kelly Monaco, Melrose Place alum Linden Ashby, and the late singer Rosemary Clooney.
Orange Is the New Black alum Lea DeLaria and The 5 Individuals You Meet in Heaven writer Mitch Albom share Carey’s birthday in 1958, in the meantime, and singer Jewel and former NFL star Duane Starks share Jennings’ birthday in 1974.
On Instagram, The Worth Is Proper honored Carey with a photograph of the “incomparable” host on the set of his sport present, whereas Jeopardy! shared a montage of weird issues Jennings has stated on the Alex Trebek Stage as a contestant and host. (Bear in mind when Jennings buzzed in on a clue a few time period for a long-handled gardening software or an immoral pleasure seeker? “What’s a hoe?” Jennings responded with a smirk.)
Carey not too long ago defined to TV Insider why he didn’t go alongside any phrases of recommendation to Jennings or to Wheel of Fortune’s Ryan Seacrest as they took the podia of their respective sport exhibits.
“I feel Bob [Barker] gave me the most effective recommendation. He stated, ‘It’s a must to make the present your personal, and don’t attempt to copy me.’ And he’s proper,” Carey instructed us. “Ken Jennings is doing his personal factor. He ought to do his personal factor. Ryan Seacrest has been within the internet hosting enterprise ceaselessly. He is aware of the way to make it his personal factor and have it come from himself authentically. That’s the factor if you’re on TV for an hour day by day — you may’t actually faux an excessive amount of. It at all times comes out someway.”
If Carey didn’t share recommendation, although, maybe he did share some birthday cake on Friday…
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