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- Lisa Ann Walter competed on Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions on Monday, Jan. 26
- The actress, who won Celebrity Jeopardy! in 2024, let out a curse after guessing the answer to a clue wrong during the show, prompting the audience to gasp in response
- Several viewers online also weighed in on her “breaking the Jeopardy! decorum” live on air
Lisa Ann Walter accidentally let out some choice words that wouldn’t fly on Abbott Elementary.
The 62-year-old actress competed on Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions, which aired on Monday, Jan. 26, and responded to getting an answer wrong with a curse, according to E! News.
Walter had already been down -200 points when she answered clue 21 wrong, bringing her score down even further and prompting her to say, “What the hell?” A few laughs and gasps could be heard from the audience in response to her outburst.
Several people online responded to Walter’s curse online, including one viewer who wrote on X, “Did not have Lisa Ann Walter casually breaking the Jeopardy! decorum on my bingo card 😂.”
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Another person argued on X, “Hell isn’t a curse word. She’s a lovely person and a fantastic actress. Who cares if she did curse. So many other things that are going on are worse than hearing a curse word.”
On Reddit, one user asked, “How do we feel about Lisa cursing?,” to which someone replied that they understood it. “I curse while watching so much, especially when a contestant gets a wrong response for some BS…”
The Parent Trap star ultimately ended the show with -$2,600 and wasn’t able to compete in the Final Jeopardy round with her fellow contestants, marketing specialist TJ Fisher and technology manager Mike Dawson. Fisher won the game with $15,199 and he was able to move on to the semifinals.
This isn’t the first time that Walter has competed on Jeopardy!. She previously won season two of Celebrity Jeopardy! in 2024 — an achievement that she said she would take to her grave on the Jan. 26 episode, per E! News.
“I’m going to be buried in [my Jeopardy! trophy], it’s my urn,” she told Jeopardy! host Ken Jennings prior to the game, per the outlet. “I fought for it, I won it and it’s going to go to good use. And I’m not kidding, it is now in my will.”
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She echoed similar sentiments in an interview with The Daily Beast following her win in 2024, noting that after winning Celebrity Jeopardy!, she felt like didn’t need any other award.
“Once I won, I said, ‘I’m good now.’ I don’t have to win anything else,” she told the outlet at the time. “I mean, I’d still like an Emmy and an Oscar — but do I have to win anything else? No, I don’t, because I’m a Jeopardy! champion.”
Jeopardy! airs weeknights on ABC (check local listings).
