Celeb Jeopardy! is being slammed by followers for a ‘tasteless’ clue that included point out of murdered Brian Laundrie on Sunday evening’s episode.
One clue in a class that revolved across the letter ‘A’ learn, ‘In 2021, fugitive Brian Laundrie ended his days in Fla’s Myakkahatchee Creek space, dwelling to those lengthy & toothy critters.’
The proper reply was, ‘What are alligators,’ however viewers could not have cared much less. They have been dismayed that the query was requested in any respect.
Laundrie, 23, confessed to killing his 22-year-old fiancé, Gabby Petito, in a pocket book earlier than taking his personal life slightly greater than a 12 months in the past. The pair had been touring throughout the nation collectively in a van.
On Twitter, the place most on-line outrage begins, one viewer wrote, ‘Jeopardy! simply had probably the most absurd query I’ve ever seen in my life.’
‘That is probably the most tasteless and insensitive reply I’ve ever seen on any Jeopardy! What the h— have been they pondering? Making gentle of that tragic state of affairs is repugnant. Rattling,’ wrote one other.
‘What the f—, Jeopardy! A Brian Laundrie query? Tasteless.’
Sunday evening’s episode of Celeb Jeopardy! brought about some controversy after followers reacted negatively to a solution the present introduced that referenced Gabby Petito killer Brian Laundrie
Actress Mayim Bialik hosts Celeb Jeopardy! She previously hosted common Jeopardy! after Alex Trebek’s passing
Featured on Sunday evening’s episode have been celebrities John Michael Higgins, WIl Wheaton and Joel Kim Booster. Wheaton emerged victorious from the sport
Viewers have been upset with the present over what they felt was an pointless and inappropriate reference to Brian Laundrie (proper), who killed Gabby Petito (left) on a cross-country highway journey final 12 months
‘That Jeopardy! query mentioning Brian Laundrie and the reply was alligators?? What the precise h—, that was so…out of line. Not crucial! There was no purpose to say him in any respect,’ wrote yet one more objector.
‘Have you ever no soul? I am unable to imagine this query acquired previous your attorneys,’ wrote a fan in obvious disbelief.
The present is hosted by actress Mayim Bialik, who previously stuffed in as host for the common Jeopardy! following the dying of Alex Trebek in 2020.
The episode’s contestants have been actors John Michael Higgins, Wil Wheaton and Joel Kim Booster. Wheaton – most acknowledged for his function on Star Trek: The Subsequent Era – gained the evening.
The case of the younger web couple stirred thousands and thousands throughout the nation in 2021 when Petito’s mom reported her lacking and Laundrie grew to become the first particular person of curiosity within the disappearance and dying of his fiancé
Petito’s physique was present in September 2021, having been strangled to dying in a campground close to the Grand Teton mountains.
In October of final 12 months, Laundrie’s skeletal stays have been found within the Myakkahatchee Creek Environmental Park, close to his dad and mom’ Florida dwelling.
It was decided that he had died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Petito’s heartbroken mom Nichole Schmidt instructed the media this 12 months that even Laundrie’s purported pocket book confession was an ‘absolute’ untruth.
In his pocket book, Laundrie wrote that he had killed Petito as an act of mercy after she grievously injured herself.
Her mom mentioned that declare is ‘ridiculous.’
‘We all know how she died’ she mentioned, calling Laundrie’s account of the incident ‘100% unfaithful.’
In his pocket book, Laundrie wrote that Petito was in excessive ache after slipping and falling in a creek.
‘Dashing again to our automotive, making an attempt to cross the steam of unfold creek earlier than it acquired too darkish to see, too chilly. I hear a splash and a scream. I might barely see, I could not finder her for a second, shouted her identify,’ Laundrie scrawled within the pocket book.
‘I discovered her respiration barely, gasping, she was freezing chilly, we had simply come from the blazing scorching nationwide parks in Utah.
‘The temperature had dropped to freezing and he or she was soaking moist. I carried her so far as I might down the stream in the direction of the automotive, stumbling, exhausted in shock, once I knew I could not safely carry her.’
Laundrie mentioned he made the choice to attempt to camp for the evening as a result of Gabby was in an excessive amount of ache to move to assist.
‘After I pulled Gabby out of the water she could not inform me what harm. She had a small bump on her brow that ultimately acquired bigger. Her toes harm, her wrist harm, however she was freezing, shaking violently, whereas carrying her she regularly made sounds of ache.’
‘Laying subsequent to her she mentioned little, lapsing between violent shakes, gasping in ache, begging for an finish to her ache. She would go to sleep and I might shake her awake fearing she should not shut her eyes if she had a concussion.’
‘She would wake in ache, begin her entire painful cycle once more, livid that I used to be the one waking her. She would not let me attempt to cross the creek, thought like me that the hearth would exit in her sleep.’
‘I do not know the extent of Gabby’s accidents, solely that she was in excessive ache.
‘I ended her life. I believed it was merciful, that it’s what she needed, however I see now all the error that I made. I panicked. I used to be in shock. However from the second I made a decision, took away her ache.’
‘I knew I could not go on with out her.
‘I rushed dwelling to spend any time I had left with my household.
‘I am ending my life not due to concern of punishment, however somewhat as a result of I am unable to stand to stay one other day with out her.
‘I’ve misplaced our entire complete future collectively, each second we might have cherished. I am sorry for everybody’s loss. Please do not make life onerous for my household, they misplaced a son and a daughter. Essentially the most great lady on the planet I am sorry.’
Petito was strangled to dying by Laundrie throughout a cross nation highway journey that she was vlogging. Petito’s dad and mom have since filed a $50 million lawsuit in opposition to the Moab Police Division for failing to help their daughter throughout a roadside site visitors cease
Aerial shot of the world in North Port the place Laundrie’s stays have been discovered. Regardless of a suicide be aware in a journal he left claiming he had killed Petito out of mercy, the younger lady’s dad and mom say they don’t imagine his claims
Myakkahatchee Creek Environmental Park in North Port, Florida is situated simply inland of the jap coast of the state, above Port Charlotte and Fort Myers
Most just lately, Petito’s dad and mom filed a $50 million lawsuit in opposition to police claiming {that a} site visitors cop didn’t arrest Laundrie in Utah as a result of the officer is himself a home abuser.
The Petito household is searching for $50million in damages from the Moab Police Division.
Schmidt mentioned the Moab Police didn’t implement legal guidelines put in place to keep away from the precise state of affairs that left her daughter useless.
‘We really feel we have to deliver justice, as a result of she might have been protected that day,’ Schmidt mentioned by way of tears. ‘There are legal guidelines put in place to guard victims, and people legal guidelines weren’t adopted. And we do not need this to occur to anyone else.’
The lawsuit acknowledged that officers didn’t ‘acknowledge the apparent indicators of abuse’ through the August 2021 site visitors cease in Moab.
Had police completed their due diligence, the swimsuit acknowledged, ‘it could have been clear to them that Gabby was a sufferer of intimate accomplice violence and wanted rapid safety.’
One of many Petito’s attorneys, Brian Stewart, mentioned that as an abuser himself, officer Eric Pratt was inherently biased to not suspect Laundrie throughout their interplay.