Travis Kelce to host celebrity 'Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?'
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The Kansas City Chiefs player will host 20 episodes of the Fox show's spinoff for Amazon Prime Video.
Travis Kelce has played games on TV his whole professional career, and now he's gearing up to join a whole new type of play.
For his first TV series gig, the Kansas City Chiefs tight end will host game show "Are You Smarter Than a Celebrity?" for Amazon Prime Video, a spinoff of the Fox game show "Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?"
The 20-episode project will feature Kelce leading a classroom of his fellow industry folks to try to help an adult contestant answer 11 questions from an elementary-level curriculum. But the celebrities aren't the contestant's competition; they're the player's lifeline — and possibly a person they can "cheat" off of, a press release announcing the show said.
The final question comes from the 6th-grade level, and a correct answer will get the contestant a $100,000 prize.
"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 in a statement, per Prime. "I'm just happy to be on the hosting side of the equation here and excited to see how these famous faces keep up."
