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Fans are up in arms after Celebrity Jeopardy!’s controversial Sunday episode.
If you haven’t heard, John Michael Higgins and Wil Wheaton competed towards comic Joel Kim Booster (pictured in the suitable inset, above) through the episode’s semifinal spherical, when an especially insensitive Brian Laundrie trace was given. Host Mayim Bialik learn the clue from the “A List” class, the place all solutions embrace the letter A.
It was:
“In 2021 Fugitive Brian Laundrie Ended His Days Fla.’s Myakkahatchee Creek Area, Home to These Long & Toothy Critters.”
Booster rapidly responded, “What are alligators?” which was certainly right, earlier than Bialik moved on to the following matter with out pondering twice. As you possible know, Gabby Petito was killed by Laundrie final 12 months whereas on a highway journey, earlier than he retired to Florida the place he in the end died by suicide in an environmental park.
Related: Gabby’s Family Reveals Shady Details About Cop Who Let Brian Go
We know this present is meant to be culturally related, however there’s positively a line between staying contemporary and being downright insensitive. Fans rapidly took problem, writing issues like:
“This is the most tasteless and insensitive answer I’ve ever seen on any Jeopardy! What the hell were they thinking? Making light of that tragic situation is repugnant. Damn.”
“THIS, this is beyond offensive. It’s appalling & completely insensitive, not to mention totally unnecessary. Shame on, @Jeopardy.”
They couldn’t consider another trace for the phrase “alligator”??? Absolutely loopy and out of bounds! What are YOUR ideas? Should the present apologize to Gabby’s household for even bringing this up? Let us know within the feedback (under).
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