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Travis Kelce is contemplating the best way to achieve yards on a brand new discipline of play.
The Kansas Metropolis Chiefs tight finish is in discussions to host a celebrity-focused reboot of the long-running sport present “Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?” that will stream through Amazon Prime Video, in response to two individuals conversant in the matter. The deal, if signed, would characterize the soccer nice’s newest transfer towards normal leisure after appearances on “Saturday Night time Dwell,” the truth sequence “Catching Kelce” and a podcast he hosts together with his brother, Jason.
Amazon Prime Video declined to make executives accessible for remark, and CAA, the company that represents Kelce, couldn’t be reached for rapid remark. There are some questions, in response to the individuals conversant in discussions, about how a lot of a dedication Kelce may make to the enterprise if he continues taking part in soccer.
The brand new model of this system, initially hosted by comic Jeff Foxworthy and showing on Fox’s broadcast community, would depend on superstar visitors reasonably than kids, in response to these individuals.
Kelce would take the helm of a sturdy property. “Fifth Grader” ran on Fox for 3 seasons beginning in 2007 earlier than shifting to syndication. It returned to Fox for a fourth season, then migrated in a brand new model to Paramount World’s Nickelodeon, the place it was hosted by John Cena.
He wouldn’t be the primary athlete to host a sport present. Michael Strahan has led a contemporary model of “The $100,000 Pyramid” on ABC, and Peyton Manning has hosted a retooled model of “School Bowl” for NBC and Peacock.
Producers would little question hope to leverage Kelce’s relationship with singer and musician Taylor Swift to attract new followers to any sequence which may come to fruition. Swift’s appearances at varied NFL match-ups involving the Chiefs final season — together with the group’s look in Tremendous Bowl LVIII — caught the attention of many youthful customers who may not ordinarily be soccer followers.