“Jeopardy!” champ Mattea Roach has proven she can conquer dozens of quiz clues with ease.
08.04.2022 - 19:49 / etcanada.com
Who is Mattea Roach? A three-day “Jeopardy!” champion, that’s who.
The Canadian contestant won $9,599 on Thursday night’s show, bringing her total winnings to $80,400.
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While Roach answered the “Final Jeopardy!” round clue incorrectly, so did the other two contestants.
At the top of the show, her previous night’s feat of answering 36 correct responses prompted host Mayim Bialik to call it “champion caliber” and a dominating performance.”
During the contestant interview portion, Roach was careful to mention she hailed from Halifax because her “family thought it was very important,” as well as offered a shout-out to Calgary and Moncton where she’s also lived.
Roach is originally from Nova Scotia, but moved to Toronto six years ago. Now, she has family, friends and fans cheering her on from coast to coast.
During an interview with Global’s “The Morning Show”, Roach said she’s watched “Jeopardy!” since she was a child – although she admitted “Wheel of Fortune” was her favourite.
And it turns out, if it wasn’t for the COVID-19 pandemic, Roach may never had ended up on the game show.
“I applied during the pandemic. I was, like many people my age, spending a bit more time at my parents’ house than I really expected to,” she said.
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“And I was bored and I thought, ‘You know what? Why not shoot my shot?'”
So, she went online and began the audition process by taking a test.
“Like, the worst thing that happens is I don’t hear back, and the best thing that happens is maybe I got on the show, so there’s literally no downside to taking the test. Then I got the
“Jeopardy!” champ Mattea Roach has proven she can conquer dozens of quiz clues with ease.
shared a tweet Monday promoting their article about Roach’s win, writing: “The 23-year-old lesbian tutor from Toronto has amassed a total of $320,081, the most by a Canadian contestant in ‘Jeopardy!’ history.”The phrasing elicited some angry responses from fans for explicitly pointing out that Roach was part of the LGBTQ+ community. “Is her sexual orientation really relevant here?” one asked.“This is such a weird tweet,” another said, with another chiming in: “Agreed… the wording is so horrible.”Is her sexual orientation really relevant here? https://t.co/HJAV0d70TQ“Try this: Congratulations to Mattea Roach, Canadian tutor, for her amassed sum of $320,081, the most won by a Canadian contestant in ‘Jeopardy!’ history,” one person chimed in.Another penned: “And somehow, in all the coverage of Mattea here in Canada, not once has her sexuality been mentioned…because it doesn’t have anything to do with her success on ‘Jeopardy!’”“I will so enjoy the day when posts highlighting someone’s sexuality are a thing of the past.
Sasha Urban editorWith her 14th consecutive “Jeopardy!” win on Friday, Mattea Roach snagged eighth place on the show’s all-time list of most consecutive game wins.Roach, a 23-year-old tutor from Toronto, Ontario, has won a modest $320,081 in prize money, bringing her to 10th place on the list of all-time highest non-tournanment cash earnings. Roach is also the highest ranking Canadian contestant in “Jeopardy!” history, and has answered 93% of clues correctly throughout her 14 games.Earlier this year, contestant Amy Schneider capped an impressive 40-game winning streak with overall winnings that totaled $1,382,800.
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Kelly Rizzo has moved out of the home she shared with her late husband, Bob Saget. In an Instagram Q & A Wednesday, Rizzo, 42, confirmed she has moved and gave an update on how she’s been since Saget’s unexpected death Jan. 9. "So, yes, I moved — you figured it out," Rizzo said in an Instagram video after reports surfaced that she was selling her Brentwood home. Bob Saget's widow Kelly Rizzo revealed she moved out of the house she shared with her late husband three months after his death.
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Kelly Rizzo knows what it's like to lose a loved one. Bob Saget's widow shared an emotional tweet on Wednesday in remembrance of her husband's close pal, Gilbert Gottfried, who died at age 67 earlier this week.«Bob loved Gilbert so dearly, they had a special friendship,» the travel blogger wrote alongside a picture Gottfried had previously posted on his Instagram of himself with Saget, Norm Macdonald, and Jeffrey Ross after Macdonald passed away in September 2021 at age 61. «As he did with everyone in this photo.» Bob loved Gilbert so dearly, they had a special friendship.
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Kelly Rizzo is on the move. A source tells ET that the travel blogger «is in the process of selling the home she shared with Bob Saget.» The star, with whom Rizzo tied the knot in 2018, died in January at age 65.«There were so many happy memories they shared together and with his family, but it is too hard for her to be there after his passing,» the source says of the house. «Kelly is staying in Los Angeles.»The news comes weeks after Rizzo took to her Instagram Story to thank fans for their support following Saget's death.«I really just wanted to take a second to say to everybody that it has not gone unnoticed.
A source tells ET that the travel blogger “is in the process of selling the home she shared with Bob Saget.” The “Full House” star, with whom Rizzo tied the knot in 2018, died in January at age 65.