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Celebrity Jeopardy!<\/em> is back with a twist. This season\u2019s tournament, Celebrity Jeopardy! All-Stars<\/em>,\u00a0sees past celebrity contestants returning for another shot at the Jeopardy!<\/em> crown. In addition, the three previous champs\u00a0\u2014 Ike Barinholtz, Lisa Ann Walter and W. Kamau Bell \u2014 head right to the second round for a chance to defend their titles.<\/p>\n Host Ken Jennings tells ABC Audio he admires\u00a0any celeb who comes to compete because\u00a0\u201cthey\u2019re really putting themselves out there.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cAnything can happen on the Alex Trebek Stage,\u201d he says, noting that while the celebs may be playing for charity, they\u00a0still want to win and make a good impression.<\/p>\n \u201cYou know, they don\u2019t wanna go viral with a wrong response,\u201d he says. \u201cThis is not SNL Celebrity Jeopardy!<\/em>\u00a0where we\u2019re just throwing them a bunch of softballs. They have to know real facts and do it fast.\u201d<\/p>\n While the celebrities take the competition seriously, there\u2019s certainly a looser feel on set, which Jennings believes is\u00a0because\u00a0the stars are more comfortable in front of a camera than regular Jeopardy!<\/em> contestants are.<\/p>\n \u201cOn Celebrity<\/em>, if anything they\u2019re too comfortable,\u201d he says. \u201cThey\u2019re having a good time. They\u2019re joking around.\u201d<\/p>\n Jennings says one perk for the\u00a0celebrity contestants is they get to prove to the public just how smart they are and that \u201cthey\u2019re not just pretty faces.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIt does seem unfair, by the way, that they have pretty faces,\u201d Jennings jokes. \u201cLike can\u2019t Jeopardy!<\/em> be our thing? Like, can\u2019t nerds have one thing?\u201d<\/p>\n He adds, \u201cI always get a little upset when someone very talented is also good at Jeopardy!<\/em> Like, come on.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n Celebrity Jeopardy! All-Stars<\/em> debuts Friday at 8 p.m. ET on ABC and will stream on Hulu the next day.<\/p>\n Copyright \u00a9 2026, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source kornradio.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u2018Celebrity Jeopardy! All-Stars\u2019 host Ken Jennings (Disney\/Eric McCandless) Celebrity Jeopardy! is back with a twist. This season\u2019s tournament, Celebrity Jeopardy! All-Stars,\u00a0sees past celebrity contestants returning for another shot at the Jeopardy! crown. In addition, the three previous champs\u00a0\u2014 Ike Barinholtz, Lisa Ann Walter and W. Kamau Bell \u2014 head right to the second round for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2326572,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2326571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/\u2018Theyre-not-just-pretty-faces-\u2013-KORN-News-Radio.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2326571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2326571"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2326571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2326573,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2326571\/revisions\/2326573"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2326572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2326571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2326571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2326571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}