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Lesbians Married After Meet-Cute as 'Jeopardy!' Contestants
Lesbians Married After Meet-Cute as 'Jeopardy!' Contestants
They shared their story on Twitter last week.
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January 26 2020 4:03 PM EST
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It’s easy to become jaded and lose faith in love, but as we all know, sometimes it’s when you aren’t looking for it that it finally finds its way to you.
That’s what happened with one married couple who shared their heartwarming story on Twitter last week.
\u201cIt\u2019s coming up on my 10 year (!) tape-i-versary for @Jeopardy, and with this week\u2019s #JeopardyGOAT and last week\u2019s ABC News Special featuring #ThankYouAlex, it seemed like a good time to share my #JEffect story\u201d— Rese Cloyd \ud83c\udff3\ufe0f\u200d\ud83c\udf08\ud83c\udf3b\ud83e\udd7e\ud83d\udea3\u200d\u2640\ufe0f (@Rese Cloyd \ud83c\udff3\ufe0f\u200d\ud83c\udf08\ud83c\udf3b\ud83e\udd7e\ud83d\udea3\u200d\u2640\ufe0f) 1578524772
It all started when Emily and Stacy both signed up for a chance to compete on Jeopardy! over ten years ago. Both were invited to audition in person, and that’s where their story truly begins.
“When the coordinators asked who had come the furthest, one woman said she’s come from Ann Arbor,” Emily wrote on Twitter. “She’d just graduated from @UMichLaw (Go Blue!) and was planning to move to DC after the bar exam to work at @BreadfortheCity’s legal clinic.”
\u201c@Jeopardy When the coordinators asked who had come the furthest, one woman said she\u2019d come from Ann Arbor - she\u2019d just graduated from @UMichLaw (Go Blue!) and was planning to move to DC after the bar exam to work at @BreadfortheCity\u2019s legal clinic.\u201d— Rese Cloyd \ud83c\udff3\ufe0f\u200d\ud83c\udf08\ud83c\udf3b\ud83e\udd7e\ud83d\udea3\u200d\u2640\ufe0f (@Rese Cloyd \ud83c\udff3\ufe0f\u200d\ud83c\udf08\ud83c\udf3b\ud83e\udd7e\ud83d\udea3\u200d\u2640\ufe0f) 1578524772
Emily also lived in DC, so the memory of this particular woman stuck with her through the months of waiting to hear back as to whether she would be competing on the show. When she finally was asked to return for a taping in January, she found out that one of her competitors was, in fact, the woman from the University of Michigan, Stacy.
\u201c@Jeopardy @UMichLaw @BreadfortheCity She didn\u2019t recognize me. Or maybe she did, once I said I\u2019d briefly met her at the audition. I think that she was being nice. She introduced herself as Stacy.\u201d— Rese Cloyd \ud83c\udff3\ufe0f\u200d\ud83c\udf08\ud83c\udf3b\ud83e\udd7e\ud83d\udea3\u200d\u2640\ufe0f (@Rese Cloyd \ud83c\udff3\ufe0f\u200d\ud83c\udf08\ud83c\udf3b\ud83e\udd7e\ud83d\udea3\u200d\u2640\ufe0f) 1578524772
After the taping, Emily suggested she and Stacy have a joint viewing party at a local bar when the episode aired, which they did, a couple months later.
\u201c@Jeopardy @UMichLaw @BreadfortheCity @350 At the viewing party, we each invited friends and family in the area. Since we\u2019d both attended @UMich (although at different times), we made sure to gather all of the Michigan grads for a photo.\u201d— Rese Cloyd \ud83c\udff3\ufe0f\u200d\ud83c\udf08\ud83c\udf3b\ud83e\udd7e\ud83d\udea3\u200d\u2640\ufe0f (@Rese Cloyd \ud83c\udff3\ufe0f\u200d\ud83c\udf08\ud83c\udf3b\ud83e\udd7e\ud83d\udea3\u200d\u2640\ufe0f) 1578525269
“After the viewing party, Stacy and I kept hanging out. Maybe some of you can guess where this is going. Maybe some of you already know,” she wrote.
“A little more than two years after our episode aired, we went to a taping of Celebrity Jeopardy! at DAR Constitution Hall. We hand delivered a note for Alex Trebek to one of the J! staff members.”
It was an invitation to their wedding.
While Trebek didn’t attend, he did send the two wives a note, and as such an important figure in their fateful love story, it’s obviously something they still treasure to this day.
“#ThankYouAlex,” Emily finished. “@StacyCloyd and I can honestly say that you changed both of our lives.”
\u201c@Jeopardy @UMichLaw @BreadfortheCity @350 @UMich #ThankYouAlex - @StacyCloyd and I can honestly say that you changed both of our lives. #JEffect\u201d— Rese Cloyd \ud83c\udff3\ufe0f\u200d\ud83c\udf08\ud83c\udf3b\ud83e\udd7e\ud83d\udea3\u200d\u2640\ufe0f (@Rese Cloyd \ud83c\udff3\ufe0f\u200d\ud83c\udf08\ud83c\udf3b\ud83e\udd7e\ud83d\udea3\u200d\u2640\ufe0f) 1578525501
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