Travis Kelce named the host of a new game show, Are You Smarter Than a Celebrity?

Throughout Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift’s not-even-one-year-long relationship, I still believe one of the most important pieces of media about TNT was Travis’s WSJ. Magazine cover interview. That really was a portrait of a man on fire, the jock who assembled an excellent management and business team around him. Team Trav was looking for ways to grow and expand Brand Kelce. Was Taylor Swift part of that? Travis definitely adores Taylor, but there is also a strategic side to all of this as well. Travis has absolutely parlayed his relationship with Taylor into bigger and better side gigs. Speaking of, Travis was just named the host of a game show off-shoot of Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? The new show is Are You Smarter Than a Celebrity? This has been in the works for months.

Travis Kelce‘s next gig: game show host. The Kansas City Chiefs tight end has booked his first TV series job and it’s hosting a spinoff of the Fox game show Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? for Amazon‘s Prime Video. The new show is titled Are You Smarter Than a Celebrity?, and it will have adult contestants answering sixth-grade level questions with the help of some famous faces. Amazon has ordered 20 episodes of the show hosted by the Super Bowl champ.

“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.”

“For years, fans around the world have tested their smarts with this fun, nostalgic game show, and we look forward to bring this reimagined format to Prime Video,” says Lauren Anderson, head of AVOD originals unscripted and targeted programming, Amazon MGM Studios. “Travis has proven to be an incredible talent on and off the field, and we appreciate the trust he has placed in us with his first foray into television. His natural, comedic dynamic with our panelists and guests, coupled with some exciting new twists, will keep our global customers coming back week after week.”

In the show, an adult contestant “will rely on a classroom full of celebrities from stage, screen and sports to help them answer 11 questions on a range of subjects, pulled from elementary curriculum, in an effort to win a $100,000 prize. They are not competing against the stars, they’re enlisting their help and, in some cases, can even ‘cheat’ off of them. And on the final question, worth $100,000, the contestant selects one celebrity to discuss the answer with before locking in. The final question is always at the 6th-grade level.”

[From THR]

The most insane part of this is that the show is being rebooted on Prime and not network television. How did ABC or NBC not want a piece of this? The hottest football star, dating the biggest pop star in the world, doing a cutesy game show? How is Ellen DeGeneres not involved? Anyway, these kinds of shows are a relative breeze to film – Prime could easily knock out a whole “season” of episodes in a week or two, which is what I’m sure they’ll do this summer. Travis has a new gig, y’all. How long before he gets a major clothing brand ambassadorship?

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