Travis Kelce Officially Set to Host ‘Are You Smarter Than a Celebrity?’ for Amazon
variety.comJack Dunn Amazon Prime Video has officially ordered a 20-episode season of “Are You Smarter Than a Celebrity?” from MGM Alternative, the streamer announced Tuesday.
As previously reported by Variety, the “Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?” spinoff will be hosted by Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce. “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. “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.
I’m just happy to be on the hosting side of the equation here and excited to see how these famous faces keep up.” “Are You Smarter Than a Celebrity?” sees contestants attempt to answer 11 grade-school-level questions with the help of a classroom full of celebrities.
If they can make it to the final question and answer correctly, they win $100,000. “After producing more than 3,000 episodes of ‘Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?’ globally, we wanted to come up with a new, loud twist on the format.
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