Travis Kelce’s calendar year just proceeds to be a bust-out recreation changer.
The NFL star, who assisted direct his Kansas Town Chiefs to a Super Bowl championship above San Francisco in February, will now host the sport show “Are You Smarter Than a Movie star?” for Primary Online video.
Oh, and his connection with the world’s most important pop star, Taylor Swift, carries on to be warm and large.
Not way too shabby.
Although phrase emerged before this yr that Kelce was in talks to host “Are You Smarter Than a Celeb?” it’s now official, in accordance to Deadline. There is no premiere date yet.
This will not be Kelce’s very first Tv set gig he starred in the truth relationship demonstrate “Catching Kelce” (2016) for United states Community and signed with CAA previous spring with an eye towards much more Tv set perform.
Kelce was reportedly in talks to host “a major new audio competition series” for a person of the networks but the deal never arrived to fruition.
His offer with Key Video is to host 20 episodes of “Are You Smarter Than a Celebrity?” which is a reboot of the outdated Fox collection “Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?” hosted by Jeff Foxworthy, which aired from 2007 to 2009 and yet again in 2015. (John Cena hosted a edition of that display on Nickelodeon in 2019.)
According to Deadline, each episode of the display will function a classroom comprehensive of celebrities to support an grownup contestant reply 11 concerns on distinctive topics that are pulled from an elementary school curriculum for the grand prize of $100,000.
Just about every contestant enlists the celebrities’ enable and can even “cheat” off them, if important. On the remaining $100,000 concern — normally on the 6th-grade stage — the contestant picks a single celebrity to examine the response ahead of “locking in” with their final reply.
The showrunner will be “Beat Shazam” creator Wes Kauble who will also be an executive producer together with Mark Burnett, in accordance to Deadline.
“I grew up loving video game displays, and I’m enthusiastic to be following in the footsteps of so quite a few Television set icons by hosting my quite initially a person with ‘Are You Smarter Than a Celeb?’” Kelce said in a statement. “The initial clearly show is a good success, so to be bringing a new format with everyone’s preferred stars to the screen, will unquestionably be entertaining.
“I’m just content to be on the web hosting aspect of the equation in this article and excited to see how these renowned faces continue to keep up.”
Kelce’s footprint in the enjoyment organization proceeds to expand.
He’s manufacturing a documentary known as “King Pleasure,” about artist Jean-Michel Basquiat and a short while ago launched his own music competition termed Kelce Jam, according to the Hollywood Reporter. It will get spot April 28 in Kansas Town with headliners Device Gun Kelly and Ross.
Kelce also co-hosts the sports activities podcast “New Heights.”
