Ken Jennings Gives ‘Jeopardy!’ Rare Look Into Love Life as He Celebrates 25th Anniversary

Ken Jennings and wife Mindy Jennings are celebrating 25 years together!

The Jeopardy! winner-turned-host, 51, shared a sweet Instagram post on Saturday, Sept. 20, wishing Mindy a happy wedding anniversary. Alongside the caption was a rare selfie of the couple in front of the Sydney Opera House in Australia. 

“I’m not sure where the years went or how I got this lucky, but this marriage is officially 25 years old,” Ken wrote. “It can now rent a car!”

He added: “(This week is also the 25th anniversary of the Sydney Olympics, but that’s not why we’re here. That would be a weird system for planning an anniversary trip.)”

The pair met when they both attended Brigham Young University for college, although it took Ken nine months after revealing his intentions to ask Mindy out to her roommate for him to actually do so. They got engaged while at BYU and tied the knot shortly after graduating together in 2000. 

Mindy, who previously worked as a preschool teacher, keeps a low profile — she hasn’t made any public appearances with Ken over the years and she doesn’t have public social media accounts. In 2013, she offered a small look into their relationship, explaining what her first impression of the game show icon was.

“He mostly wanted people to know he was funny,” she told Buzzfeed at the time. “He’s not the type of person who wants you to know he knows everything.”

Ken and Mindy share two children together: son Dylan, born in 2002, and daughter Caitlin, born in 2006. Not much is known about the kids, although Ken shared an update on Dylan’s life in October 2022. The post featured a photo of his older child wearing a Seattle Mariners baseball jersey at a ball game. 

“The last time his team made it to the playoffs, this guy wasn’t born yet. He just started his sophomore year of college. Congrats @Mariners!” the father of two captioned it.

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In 2021, Ken also gave some insight into his parenting style and opened up about what surprised him most about becoming a dad.

“The constant change: People tend to remember their childhood as a constant, steady state, but when you see a kid from a parent’s eye, you realize there’s a new interest or a new quirk every few weeks,” Ken told Yahoo! Life. “It’s eye-opening how your own perception of childhood maybe isn’t that accurate. You need to be ready for your kid to have a new challenge or obsession monthly — or more.”

“Parenting is always a moving target: you’re really just responding to the current needs of the kid, which might be different [needs] than six months ago,” he continued. “So it’s a lot of listening, because the kid will tell you what you need — but it’s not going to be what you expect and it’s not what you remember you needing at their age.”