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'Jeopardy!' Contestant Involved in Sexist Clue Breaks Silence: ‘Uncomfortable’


‘Jeopardy!’ contestant Heather Ryan is breaking her silence on a sexist clue she answered on the long-running trivia show last month

When Ryan appeared on the October 28 episode, she encountered a clue in the “Complete the Rhyming Phrase” category that began with the expression, “Men seldom making passes… .” During his original run in 2004, Jennings, a former contestant who holds the show’s longest winning streak ever, was part of a risqué joke while answering a question in the “Tool Time” category. The Planet Funny author, 50, later found himself at the center of controversy when some of his old tweets resurfaced just before he began his first stint as a guest host for the show following Trebek’s November 2020 death.

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