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Mattea Roach’s Jeopardy win streak has come to an end, bringing her to fifth place in the game show’s all-time earnings and winning streaks. Roach, a 23-year-old tutor from Toronto, tapped out at 23 wins when she fell a dollar short to Georgia’s Danielle Maurer on Friday night, after coming in second place at $15,559, behind Maurer’s $15,600. The final […]
Sometimes the easiest puzzles are the hardest to solve, which a few recent Wheel of Fortune contestants could tell you all about. The latest viral clip finds all three contestants on an episode being unable to complete the answer “renting a pedal boat,” getting stumped on one final letter after the puzzle was basically completed. Loyal scholars of Wheel of Fortune fails know […]
One of the contestants from a recent episode of Wheel of Fortune spoke with TMZ after a clip of the trio struggling to solve the puzzle went viral. After buying the vowel “O,” Laura was confident that she could solve the puzzle featuring the popular phrase, “Another feather in your cap.” Instead of cap, she said, “Hat,” which was […]
History-making Jeopardy! champion Amy Schneider was robbed at gunpoint over the weekend. Per a report from the Associated Press, the armed robbery occurred on Sunday in Oakland, California. As of Wednesday, authorities had not announced any arrests in connection with the robbery. In a pair of tweets addressing the incident, Schneider—who started her Jeopardy! run in […]
After ending his pursuit to be the next host of Jeopardy , LeVar Burton has just snagged a new gig as the next master of ceremonies for Hasbro and Entertainment One’s television gameshow adaptation of Trivial Pursuit. According to the Hollywood Reporter, the Reading Rainbow host will also be stepping on to executive produce the series. When the president of global unscripted […]
ComplexCon returns to Long Beach Nov. 6 – 7 with hosts J. Balvin and Kristen Noel Crawley, performances by A$AP Rocky and Turnstile, and more shopping and drops. Secure your spot while tickets last! Buy tickets After an impressive string of televised victories, Matt Amodio’s Jeopardy! journey has come to an end. On Monday, Amodio’s […]
The skeletons keep coming out of the closet for Jeopardy! executive producer and newly appointed host Mike Richards. The Ringer reports audio from every episode of a podcast titled The Randumb Show, which was helmed by Richards with co-host and former assistant Beth Triffon, had recently been removed. The suspicious decision was likely sparked by The Ringer’s inquiry into […]
In a statement put out on Monday, Mike Richards, who is rumored to be the front-runner to replace Alex Trebek as the permanent host of Jeopardy!, addressed past discrimination lawsuits that came up from his time as a producer on The Price is Right. For context, two lawsuits from more than a decade ago, which were brought up after it was reported […]
Variety reports Jeopardy! executive producer Mike Richards is in advanced negotiations to become the successor to the late Alex Trebek as the show’s permanent host. Richards had previously hosted Divided and The Pyramid on GSN. This report will come as a huge disappointment to a great many online who have pushed for LeVar Burton to be the next […]
As the search for the permanent host for Jeopardy! marches onward, LeVar Burton continues to be open about his desire to land that role. Well, more accurately he’s being asked about it and he’s just answering the questions but, yeah, he wants it. The latest instance of this subject being brought up came in an interview with The New York Times […]
