Rumours have been flying about who’ll be stepping into the shoes of the late, great Alex Trebek after the longtime “Jeopardy!” host passed away on Sunday at age 80.

Some are surmising that “Jeopardy!” champ Ken Jennings, who joined the show in September as “consulting producer”, was hired so he could be groomed to become Trebek’s replacement. However, there’s been no official confirmation that’s the case.

Then, The Wrap reported that a “highly placed” source claimed that the agent of “Good Morning America” anchor George Stephanopoulos was “lobbying hard” for his client to land the “Jeopardy!” hosting gig, although a rep for Stephanopoulos denied he was “actively” pursuing the job.

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Meanwhile, another competitor has entered the field, thanks to an online petition pushing “Star Trek: The Next Generation” star and “Reading Rainbow” host LeVar Burton to assume the “Jeopardy!” mantle.

“Between hosting 21 seasons of the educational ‘Reading Rainbow’, playing the brainiac engineer Geordi La Forge on ‘Star Trek: the Next Generation’, and filling the role of Kunta Kinte in the ever-important miniseries ‘Roots’, LeVar Burton has inspired and shaped the minds of several generations of trivia-loving nerds,” reads the petition.

“This petition is to show Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. and producers Mike Richards and Harry Friedman just how much love the public has for Burton and how much we’d all love to see him as the next host of ‘Jeopardy!’.”

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Burton responded in a tweet:

In a followup tweet, Burton sent his condolences to Trebek’s family, unfortunately misspelling the TV icon’s last name.

At time of writing, the Change.org petition has garnered more than 37,000 of the 50,000 signatures sought.

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