run, logging the second-best consecutive game streak with 39 wins, perToday.
Other names in the “Jeopardy!”
Now all the buzzer, sorry,buzz is centering on Mattea Roach.
In aninterviewafter one recent game, Roach said, “That was not what I expected coming down here.
With every win, Roach is getting more attention in the press.
Unfortunately, some of that attention isn’t exactly what she would want to see.
One description from NBC News is raising both eyebrows and outrage.
If this was meant as a compliment in any way, it fell flat.
“The grammatical ambiguity of this lede confuses me.
Does she teach lesbians part-time?
Or does she teach how to be a lesbian part-time?
There were also outcries from “Jeopardy!”
fans who wondered why NBC was mentioning Roach’s sexuality at all.
Anotheragreed: “NBC: This comment is so off, by almost any standard.
I’m a tutor from Vancouver.
I’m not ‘a straight tutor.’
Whomever she chooses to love is not our business and not the point of the story.”
They did, however, still emphasize that she is “the game show’s latest LGBTQ sensation.”
Roach herself has yet to comment.
