Danger! Contestant HeatherRyan is breaking her silence about a sexist clue she answered on the long-running quiz show.

When Ryan appeared on the October 28 episode, he was presented with a clue in the “Complete the Rhyming Sentence” category that began with the phrase “Men rarely pass…”

Ryan finished the sentence by saying “girls who wear glasses.”

When you hear the answer, Danger! homeowner Ken Jennings he immediately apologized to Ryan, who was wearing glasses at the time. “It’s a bit problematic, I’m sorry Heather,” he said.

Ryan, who works as the health program director at Binghamton, New York, addressed the situation in an interview with Binghamton University’s student newspaper. Pipe Dream It was released on Monday, November 4th.

“This is definitely an odd choice,” Ryan said. “I think it made everyone in the audience and on stage a little uncomfortable, and Ken Jennings too. It was like, ‘Oh, that was unexpected.’ Maybe in 2024 we’ll choose better rhyming phrases. Unfortunately, there are still girls going to secondary school who do not want to wear their glasses and lose their education. So I think being able to see is better than anything else.”

Ryan faced Ian TaylorA food sales representative from Cleveland and a video game designer based in Austin Will Wallace. While Taylor won the match, Ryan placed second, losing only $1 in the Final Jeopardy round.

Despite his loss and this strange clue, Ryan enjoyed the experience.

“I had a great time,” he said Pipe Dream. “Everyone there was very welcoming.”

Ryan entered the competition after taking an online quiz in early 2023. She auditioned that summer and filmed her appearance in Los Angeles a year later.

“It’s such a part of American culture that when I got the call, I definitely wanted to keep going,” he said.

The accident involving Ryan was the last of the series. a series Danger! blunders.

During its first run in 2004, former contestant Jennings, who had the show’s longest-ever winning streak, was part of a suggestive joke while answering a question in the “Tool Time” category.

The late homeowner read: “This term for a long-handled garden tool can also mean a person who pursues wanton pleasure.” Alex Trebek. Jennings, who was in the lead at the time, called and responded: “What’s an anchor?” As the audience started laughing, Trebek quipped: “Whoa, whoa, whoa! They teach you that in school in Utah, right?

Planet Funny The 50-year-old writer found himself at the center of controversy when some of his old tweets resurfaced just before his first stint as the show’s guest host. Following Trebek’s death in November 2020. “There is nothing sadder than a hot person in a wheelchair,” a tweet Jennings shared in 2014 read.

former software engineer apologized for the articleshe said that these “worked like a joke” in his mind, but did not read very well on the screen. “I said stupid things sometimes and I want to apologize to people who were (rightfully!) offended,” he tweeted in December 2020. “It wasn’t my intention to hurt anyone, but that doesn’t matter; I messed up and I’m truly sorry.”