Rob Tornoe at The Philadelphia Inquirer reports Jeopardy! Champ Cris Pannullo, a customer-success operations manager from New Jersey who took home $749,268 before taxes during a 21-game winning streak in December, announced in a post on Reddit he won’t show up to film this season’s Tournament of Champions if the show’s Writers are still on Strike.  Pannullo wrote he will “not participate in any games comprised of recycled clues while the WGA Strike is in effect.”  Pannullo was commenting on a post written by fellow Jeopardy! Champ Ray Lalonde, who cited “credible reports” that the show’s producers are planning on taping the next season of the show with recycled clues if the Writers Guild of America Strike remains unresolved.  “I believe that the show’s Writers are a vital part of the show and they are justified in taking their job action to secure a fair contract for themselves and their fellow WGA Members,” Lalonde, who was a set designer for Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale, wrote. “As a supporter of the Trade Union Movement, a Union Member’s son and a proud Union Member myself I have informed the show’s producers that if the Strike remains unresolved I will not cross a picket line to play in the Tournament of Champions.”

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