Sony Pictures Television After Jason Singer celebrated his July 1Jeopardy!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 winJeopardy!, 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 theJeopardy!community. On July 1, Jason Singer won the episode and was celebrated for joining his wife, Susan McMillan, as aJeopardy!winner. She had previously won the show in 2021. Before he competed, Singer told theSandusky Registerhe and his wife were "hoping to become the first-ever couple to have been married first and then gone on to both beJeopardy!champions, so some fun history is at stake." Thoughthey did achieve their goal of being a married couple with their own respectiveJeopardy!titles, Singer and McMillan are not, in fact, the first to do so. People has reached out to Singer for comment. In a Facebookpost, Sausville, who wonJeopardy!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 theJeopardy! contestants last night had a wife who was aJ!champion, and was hoping he would win so they could be the first married champions inJ!history," she wrote in the July 2 post. Jeopardy/Facebook "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. She also noted that two other married couples have achieved the same feat: Amy Stephenson and Scott Bateman, and David Rigsby and Ryan Alley. CBS "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." Never miss a story — sign up forPEOPLE's free daily newsletterto stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. Jeopardy!airs weeknights on ABC (check local listings). Read the original article onPeople
