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Travis Kelce Trades Locker Room for Classroom in ‘Are You Smarter Than a Celebrity?’ Trailer
The first three episodes premiere Oct. 16 on Prime Video, followed by a new episode weekly

In Are You Smarter Than a Celebrity?, Travis Kelce trades the locker room for the classroom. In a trailer for the 20-episode game show, the Kansas City Chiefs tight end (and boyfriend to pop sensation Taylor Swift) jokes about his decision to pursue criminal justice at the University of Cincinnati.

“If I’m going to go to school I might as well learn how to not go to jail,” Kelce says in the trailer, released Tuesday.

Are You Smarter Than a Celebrity? takes an approach similar to Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader? An adult contestant must answer 11 elementary-level questions, for a potential prize of $100,000. Instead of working against a classroom of fifth graders, the contestant will rely on the celebrities, who will occasionally cheat, to answer the questions correctly. For the final question — worth $100,000 — a contestant must select one celebrity to discuss the answer before locking it in. The celebrities showing up for attendance include comedians Nikki Glaser, Natasha Leggero, Nicole Byer, and Ron Funches; former NFL players Ryan Fitzpatrick and Chad Ochocinco; actress Garcelle Beauvais; Vanderpump Rules star Lala Kent; internet personality and podcast host Sophia Stallone; and comedian and author Lilly Singh.

The hosting gig follows other onscreen roles, including his part in Ryan Murphy’s Grotesquerie, which premiered Sept. 25, and his upcoming role in Adam Sandler’s Happy Gilmore 2, which is also expected to star Puerto Rican artist Bad Bunny and original cast members Julie Bowen and Christopher McDonald.