Travis Kelce’s Game-Show Era Begins: Is He the Next Alex Trebek?
Travis Kelce might be one of our last remaining Renaissance men. He’s a football player, a clothes horse, boyfriend to a pop star, brother to a podcast host, and now he’s broken through to the silver screen—not on the field, but on the soundstage.
He was one of the high-profile stars cast in Ryan Murphy’s latest horror affliction Grotesquerie, but has so far only appeared in one episode. Maybe that’s because he was having too much fun shooting Prime Video’s Are You Smarter Than a Celebrity?, a spin-off of the game show Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader? premiering Oct. 16. Considering all the clapping and cheering going on, that could well be true.
Far from a simple stunt cameo, Kelce is the host of this new iteration of the quiz show, which, in this case, pits one contestant against a “classroom” of famous people—anyone from football players to comedians to football players to the occasional reality star (Vanderpump Rules’ Lala Kent bravely attempts a couple of grade-school trivia questions in one episode). The class is presented with 10 questions from grade levels one through five, and the normie contestant picks one celebrity to assist them in each round. If they ace all 10, they get the option to attempt a sixth-grade-level question or leave with their cash winnings. If they fail any question before that, they flunk out.