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Reigning “Jeopardy!” champion Amy Schneider revealed that she was robbed over the weekend.
The game show contestant, 42, updated fans on Twitter Monday, writing that she’s feeling “fine” after getting robbed of her ID, credit cards and phone on Sunday.
“I then couldn’t really sleep last night, and have been dragging myself around all day trying to replace everything,” she added.
But the robbery hasn’t thrown Schneider off her “Jeopardy!” game. On Tuesday, she emerged victorious yet again on the trivia show, clinching her 25th consecutive win and bringing her total prize money up to $918,000.
Schneider is currently the fourth-highest earning winner in regular season play, behind legends Matt Amodio ($1,518,601), James Holzhauer ($2,462,216) and Ken Jennings ($2,520,700).
The engineering manager from Oakland, California, became the first openly transgender contestant to qualify for a spot in the next tournament of top winners after just five wins earlier this year. She’s since opened up about the value of on-screen representation.
“I am so incredibly grateful,” she said in a recent interview with San Francisco station KGO-TV. “Hopefully I can send a positive message to the nerdy trans girl who wants to be on the show too.”
Of the “Jeopardy!” contestant greats, Schneider said she’d like to beat Holzhauer, who won 32 games in a row in 2019, nabbed a total of $2,962,216 in prize money and holds the show record for single-game winnings with $131,127.
‘Jeopardy’ contestant Amy Schneider wants to ‘send a positive message to the nerdy trans girl’
Schneider addressed transphobic comments she’s received since appearing on “Jeopardy!” in a tweet on New Year’s Eve.
“I’d like to thank all the people who have taken the time, during this busy holiday season, to reach out and explain to me that, actually, I’m a man,” she wrote. “Every single one of you is the first person ever to make that very clever point, which had never once before crossed my mind”
Amy Schneider makes ‘Jeopardy!’ history with fourth-highest winnings in regular season play
Contributing: David Oliver, Hannah Yasharoff