Jeopardy! champion Mattea Roach discusses the fan mail and hate mail she's received and why she'd pick Ken Jennings as the new full-time host

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"My wrist has received fan mail," the 23-year-old Roach tells Vulture of the divisiveness over her wrist movements. "If anything, my wrist received a lot of hate mail. A lot of people really didn’t like it. I saw a couple fan cams of my wrist, which is funny. There’s a lot of queer people specifically who have been fans of the way I move my hands and body. It’s not something I thought about at the time I was taping, but it’s fun to see the support from that community, which I’m a part of." Roach was also asked about whom she'd prefer to see as the new Jeopardy! host since she's worked with both Mayim Bialik and Ken Jennings. "I would say Ken because of his history with the show," she says. "As a contestant, there’s something really special about being onstage with the greatest player of all time. Someone who understands in a very visceral way what it’s like to be in your position. Mayim is fantastic, but she doesn’t have that same experience."