Jeopardy! viewers in central Florida were left outraged when the show ended early before the final round.

Fans of the quiz show complained Tuesday night’s episode finished around three minutes too early on the Orlando-based ABC affiliate network, WFTV 9, meaning they couldn’t see who won the competition.

Many rushed to Twitter to point out the error saying the show cut off before the “Final Jeopardy!” round and that the next program on the listing, Wheel of Fortune, which was due to start at 7:30 p.m. began minutes early.

“@Jeopardy watching in Florida on @WFTV and wheel of fortune started early. We didn’t see final jeopardy. What’s up?” tweeted one viewer.

Another fan tweeted: “ABC Network strikes again! They cut off Jeopardy just before Final Jeopardy and started Wheel of Fortune 3 minutes early! Did anyone else see this?”

And a third viewer wrote: “Uhh my local affiliate just skipped Final Jeopardy and started Wheel of Fortune early????”

WFTV 9 did not address the error on its social media channels. Newsweek reached out to the channel and its parent company, Cox Media Group by email for comment.

The gaffe comes after the long-running show was the subject of a joke on the most recent episode of Saturday Night Live.

During the show’s “Weekend Update” segment, SNL gave recent Jeopardy! contestant Brian Henegar a shout-out. Henegar appeared on Jeopardy! last week but was later trolled on social media over his mustache, with people saying it reminded them of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler.

“A Jeopardy! contestant this week was forced to quit social media after people said his mustache looks like Hitler’s,” SNL cast member Colin Jost said. “The contestant said he’s so mad, he’s had it up to here,” he joked while doing the Nazi salute.

Henegar who said he would donate some of his final three-day winnings of $68,202 to the Anti-Defamation League following the trolling, took to Twitter to talk about SNL.

“Well…I guess it’s great to make it on Saturday Night Live…I suppose,” he said, and added he would be taking “a break for my personal sanity.”

After the initial trolling, Henegar fired off a number of tweets in which he slammed people’s reactions to his appearance on Jeopardy!

“Right now I’m feeling every emotion under the sun reliving my Jeopardy! appearance,” he said. “And I’m seeing what a bunch of Jerks on Twitter are doing because all they can focus on my looks… So I’m going to be leaving Twitter for a while, see you soon.”

“And second, to all of you jerkolas you thought comparing my appearance to one of the most evil dictators, who ever lived was the height of comedy, when I get my Jeopardy winnings, I will be making a donation to the Anti-Defamation League.”

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Princess Diana said Prince Harry “is actually closer to his father than perhaps William at the moment” at the time she cooperated with a 1992 biography.

Prince Harry and Prince William’s rivalry took center stage in Harry’s book Spare, released in January 2023, which revealed resentment at the hierarchy between the brothers.

Charles and Harry’s relationship in childhood is though, at times, painted in sympathetic terms.

Princess Diana described a close bond between father and son during Harry’s early childhood—though at an age not covered in Spare, which begins with Diana’s death.

A transcript of tape recordings she made for her biographer Andrew Morton, included in later editions of his 1992 book Diana: Her True Story, show Charles was initially disappointed not to have a daughter.

“Harry arrived,” she said. “Harry had red hair, Harry was a boy. First comment was: ‘Oh God, it’s a boy,’ second comment: ‘and he’s even got red hair.’

“Something inside me closed off. By then I knew he had gone back to his lady [Camilla, now the Queen Consort] but somehow we’d managed to have Harry.

“Harry was a complete joy and is actually closer to his father than perhaps William at the moment.”

Elsewhere on the Morton tapes, she said: “Harry was supposed to be a girl. [Charles] was absolutely amazed and he adores him.”

“[Charles] loved the nursery life,” she said, “and couldn’t wait to get back and do the bottle and everything. He was very good, he always came back and fed the baby. I [breast] fed William for three weeks and Harry for eleven weeks.”

Diana’s comments are particularly striking because so much of her account of Charles in the Morton tapes is searingly critical, painting her then husband as indifferent to the collapse in her mental health.

Charles’ portrayal in Spare is mixed, with Harry saying his father did not hug him at the point he told Harry that Princess Diana had died.

“Pa didn’t hug me,” he wrote. “He wasn’t great at showing emotions under normal circumstances, how could he be expected to show them in such a crisis? But his hand did fall once more on my knee and he said: ‘It’s going to be OK.’

“That was quite a lot for him. Fatherly, hopeful, kind. And so very untrue. He stood and left. I don’t recall how I knew that he’d already been in the other room, that he’d already told Willy, but I knew.

“I lay there, or sat there. I didn’t get up. I didn’t bathe, didn’t pee. Didn’t get dressed. Didn’t call out to Willy or [his nanny] Mabel. After decades of working to reconstruct that morning I’ve come to one inescapable conclusion: I must’ve remained in that room, saying nothing, seeing no one, until nine .. sharp, when the piper began to play outside.”

However, in other places Charles comes across more sympathetically, taking care of his son in the years after Diana’s death.

“He’d always given an air of being not quite ready for parenthood,” Harry wrote, “the responsibilities, the patience, the time. Even he, though a proud man, would’ve admitted as much.

“But single parenthood? Pa was never made for that. To be fair, he tried. Evenings, I’d shout downstairs: Going to bed, Pa!

“He’d always shout back cheerfully: I’ll be there shortly, darling boy! True to his word, minutes later he’d be sitting on the edge of my bed. He never forgot that I didn’t like the dark, so he’d gently tickle my face until I fell asleep.

“I have the fondest memories of his hands on my cheeks, my forehead, then waking to find him gone, magically, the door always considerately left open a crack.”

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Jennifer Aniston is reflecting on the changing world of comedy — and admitted “Friends” probably wouldn’t be deemed ready for prime time today.

“There’s a whole generation of people, kids, who are now going back to episodes of ‘Friends’ and find them offensive,” the “Murder Mystery 2” star admitted in an interview with the international AFP news agency while promoting her new film in Paris

“Friends” aired from 1994 to 2004 and has been criticized in recent years for its absence of diversity in casting and storylines.

Throughout the 10-year run of the show, the sitcom continued to whitewash New York City and rarely featured a character of color. “Friends” only introduced two recurring characters of color, both of whom were brought on as short-lived love interests for Ross.

“There were things that were never intentional and others … well, we should have thought it through, but I don’t think there was a sensitivity like there is now,” Aniston, 54, said about some of the show’s more controversial plot lines that would likely fall prey to “cancel culture” in 2023.

“Comedy has evolved — movies have evolved,” the Emmy-winning “Morning Show” star added. “Now, it’s a little tricky because you have to be very careful, which makes it really hard for comedians, because the beauty of comedy is that we make fun of ourselves, make fun of life.”

She went on to recall how comedians “could joke about a bigot and have a laugh” back in the day. “That was hysterical,” she said, ” and it was about educating people on how ridiculous people were, and now we’re not allowed to do that.”

Aniston also believes that the world would be a much sadder place without humor. “Everybody needs funny,” she pointed out. “We can’t take ourselves too seriously. Especially in the United States. Everyone is far too divided.”

As for the lack of diversity present in “Friends,” star Lisa Kudrow got candid about how the show’s writers struggled with including characters of color during the 10-season run.

“The Comeback” Emmy winner, 59, told the Daily Beast last year how series creators David Crane and Marta Kauffman did not have the resources or the knowledge to write stories about people of different races.

“Well, I feel like it was a show created by two people who went to Brandeis and wrote about their lives after college,” Kudrow explained. 

“And for shows especially, when it’s going to be a comedy that’s character-driven, you write what you know. They have no business writing stories about the experiences of being a person of color.”

However, an “embarrassed” Kauffman, 66, attempted to make amends in 2022 with a $4 million donation to her alma mater, Brandeis University, to fund an endowed chair in the school’s African and African American studies department, one of the oldest in the country.

Along with millions of other Americans, the writer-producer said the 2020 murder of George Floyd pushed her to reckon with the country’s racist past and her own part in perpetuating systems of racism.

“I knew then I needed to course-correct,” she explained at the time.

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Get out of here, trolls! The wrestler who Pat Sajak tackled earlier this week on Wheel of Fortune opened up about the viral interaction, saying it’s “unfair” that the longtime host is facing such harsh criticism. 

During Tuesday’s (March 21) episode, Sajak put his wrestling skills to use against big winner Fred Jackson, who works as a professional wrestler, as well as a drama teacher and bar trivia host.

Sajak asked the other two contestants, “Do you want me to body slam him for you? I can do that,” before pinning Jackson down. This shocking move prompted many viewers to take to social media and share their thoughts on the silly interaction.

While chatting with TMZ, Jackson opened up about the internet’s response to the lighthearted stunt. “I loved that moment,” he said.

“Seeing the criticizing that [Sajak] gets online is a little unfair. I was the one who was put in the hold and I was perfectly okay with it,” Jackson continued. 

The wrestler added that he understands if “it’s not your sense of humor” but believes that name-calling and wanting Sajak to retire is “taking it a little too seriously.”

Jackson also confirmed that the encounter was “as organic” as viewers saw it. He described feeling “elated” about his big win before Sajak came from behind to pin him down. The contestant shared that the game show host is “stronger than he looks” and had a “tight” hold on him, but clarified that the interaction didn’t hurt. https://www.instagram.com/p/Cpku9FcO-Pz

“He has a much bigger knack for pro wrestling than I think anyone would give him credit for,” Jackson joked. 

In the following Wheel of Fortune episode, Sajak grew impatient with another contestant and snapped at her to “solve the darn puzzle.” However, the situation remained friendly as she went on to guess correctly. The two joked about the interaction later in the segment when the host accused her of pretending to not know the answer to draw the drama out. 

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