Current:Home > InvestTravis Kelce to host celebrity spinoff of 'Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?' -FundSphere
Travis Kelce to host celebrity spinoff of 'Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?'
View
Date:2025-04-17 02:54:31
Travis Kelce has made his next play.
Amazon Prime confirmed the Kansas City Chiefs tight end will host a streaming spinoff of game show "Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?" titled "Are You Smarter Than a Celebrity?"
The 20-episode series puts contestants to the test with elementary school-level questions to compete for up to a $100,000 prize.
"I grew up loving game shows, and I’m excited to be following in the footsteps of so many TV icons by hosting my very first one with 'Are you Smarter than a Celebrity,'" Kelce said in statement. "The original show is a great success, so to be bringing a new format with everyone’s favorite celebrities to the screen will definitely be entertaining."
He added: "I’m just happy to be on the hosting side of the equation here and excited to see how these famous faces keep up."
Contestants will be challenged with 11 questions in a wide range of subjects, assisted by a "classroom" of celebrities from various professions they can tag in for help. The final question, worth $100,000, will be at the 6th grade level.
Amazon Prime has not announced a premiere date.
The announcement comes a month after word surfaced that the NFL player was in discussions to host a reboot of the quiz show.
Kelce, already popular as an NFL player, has become a household name since he began dating pop superstar Taylor Swift. He has also done a bit of acting, guest starring in a short-lived 2020 Showtime comedy, "Moonbase 8," featuring Fred Armisen and made his debut at SXSW festival in March as the executive producer of the dark comedy "My Dead Friend Zoe." During the iHeart Radio Podcast Awards, which took place during SXSW, he took home the podcast of the year award for the "New Heights" podcast with his brother Jason Kelce.
Taylor Swift and Travis Kelcedance to Bleachers, Ice Spice at Coachella
“Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?” was a hit when it premiered in February 2007 on Fox, and was hosted by comedian-actor Jeff Foxworthy. The show ran for three seasons and returned with a fourth in 2015. It also had a brief run in syndication.
Nickelodeon revived the show in 2019 for one season hosted by wrestler-turned-actor John Cena.
Contributing: Edward Segarra
veryGood! (392)
Related
- Meet the volunteers risking their lives to deliver Christmas gifts to children in Haiti
- The Tigray Medical System Collapse
- How an on-call addiction specialist at a Massachusetts hospital saved a life
- Concussion protocols are based on research of mostly men. What about women?
- Whoopi Goldberg is delightfully vile as Miss Hannigan in ‘Annie’ stage return
- False information is everywhere. 'Pre-bunking' tries to head it off early
- Environmental Groups Sue to Block Trump’s Endangered Species Act Rule Changes
- Many Man-Made Earthquakes in Western Canada Can Now Be Linked to Fracking
- Why members of two of EPA's influential science advisory committees were let go
- What’s Eating Away at the Greenland Ice Sheet?
Ranking
- Off the Grid: Sally breaks down USA TODAY's daily crossword puzzle, Triathlon
- The Mystery of the Global Methane Rise: Asian Agriculture or U.S. Fracking?
- Children's hospitals grapple with a nationwide surge in RSV infections
- Court Sides with Arctic Seals Losing Their Sea Ice Habitat to Climate Change
- SFO's new sensory room helps neurodivergent travelers fight flying jitters
- 3 personal safety tips to help you protect yourself on a night out
- With Some Tar Sands Oil Selling at a Loss, Why Is Production Still Rising?
- Today’s Climate: Juy 17-18, 2010
Recommendation
See you latte: Starbucks plans to cut 30% of its menu
Selling Sunset's Jason Oppenheim Teases Intense New Season, Plus the Items He Can't Live Without
Derek Jeter Privately Welcomes Baby No. 4 With Wife Hannah Jeter
Today’s Climate: August 4, 2010
'Malcolm in the Middle’ to return with new episodes featuring Frankie Muniz
Schools are closed and games are postponed. Here's what's affected by the wildfire smoke – and when they may resume
In California, Climate Change Is an ‘Immediate and Escalating’ Threat
'Comfort Closet' helps Liberians overcome an obstacle to delivering in a hospital