JEOPARDY! star Mattea Roach has shared that they were struggling to get by before their massive success on the game show. The 24-year-old Canadian wunderkind got candid about their pre- Jeopardy! financial situation in a new video interview with the CBC. "I was actually on E.
I. when I was taping Jeopardy!," Mattea told the outlet on Wednesday. EI stands for Employment Insurance in Canada, which provides temporary income support to unemployed workers.
"I had to file my little 'no no, no, yes, no' [form] while I was taping Jeopardy!." "And I, of course, got docked for being out of the country, and they asked, 'Were you out of the country looking for work?'" Read more on Mattea Roach "And I was like, 'In a sense," Mattea joked, referring to their 2023 Jeopardy! streak, which would, thankfully, change their tax bracket. "'I was out of the country chasing a fortune.
' But that's not something the E.I. people want to hear, right?" Mattea explained their financial situation even impacted their Jeopardy! strategy, and was the reason they didn't make risky wagers.
They admitted the "right" strategy on the show is to bet big on Daily Doubles, which they didn't feel comfortable doing. Most read in Game shows "So I was not in a position where I felt comfortable throwing around house money," they added. “Because it meant something to me, really concretely.
" “If you were more financially comfortable and used to wagering money you would just realize the right thing to do is go big." Fans.