Former “Jeopardy!” Winner Points Out That Recent Couple Were Not, in Fact, the Show's First Married Duo to Both Win
- - - Former "Jeopardy!" Winner Points Out That Recent Couple Were Not, in Fact, the Show's First Married Duo to Both Win
Julia MooreJuly 3, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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(L-R) Jason Singer and Susan McMillian on 'Jeopardy!'
After Jason Singer celebrated his July 1 Jeopardy! win and the fact that he and his wife Susan McMillan became the first married couple to both win the show, scandal broke out
There have actually been several married couples to win Jeopardy!, as 2015 five-time winner Kristin Sausville spoke out
She said it was "really surreal honestly kind of sinister" to see "part of yourself be erased in real-time"
A scandal is brewing within the Jeopardy! community.
On July 1, Jason Singer won the episode and was celebrated for joining his wife, Susan McMillan, as a Jeopardy! winner. She had previously won the show in 2021.
Before he competed, Singer told the Sandusky Register he and his wife were "hoping to become the first-ever couple to have been married first and then gone on to both be Jeopardy! champions, so some fun history is at stake."
Though they did achieve their goal of being a married couple with their own respective Jeopardy! titles, Singer and McMillan are not, in fact, the first to do so.
People has reached out to Singer for comment.
Five-time champion Kristin Sausville called out the fact that Singer and McMillan were being labeled as the first married couple to both win the show after she and her husband did so a decade ago.
In a Facebook post, Sausville, who won Jeopardy! five times in 2015, said it was "really surreal honestly kind of sinister" seeing "part of yourself be erased in real-time."
"Maybe you've seen an article in the past day or two about how one of the Jeopardy! contestants last night had a wife who was a J! champion, and was hoping he would win so they could be the first married champions in J! history," she wrote in the July 2 post.
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(L-R) Kristin Sausville and Justin Sausville on 'Jeopardy!'.
"Well. If you're friends with me, you're probably aware that both Justin and I won; Justin in 2011 and me in 2015."
Sausville went on to note that she and her husband also weren't even the first couple to achieve the feat from what she'd "been able to research."
"Dan Pawson and Andrea Saenz were the first," she wrote, referring to a couple who won in 2007 and 2010, respectively.
Sausville was disturbed by how quickly her and her husband's feats were overlooked, as well as those of other Jeopardy! couples.
She also noted that two other married couples have achieved the same feat: Amy Stephenson and Scott Bateman, and David Rigsby and Ryan Alley.
The 'Jeopardy!' board is pictured.
"It's really Orwellian to watch how easily it's happening. Like, at the end of the day, I'm not all 'but my LEGACY!' about it, but I am really bothered by seeing how quickly misinformation can be spread and accepted as truth," she wrote.
"We should keep that in mind for everything we see online."
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