Celebrity Weakest Link is rounding up a wide variety of reality TV ex-wives who aren’t sure how the game works.
In Us Weekly‘s exclusive clip from the November 24, episode of the Fox game show, Dorinda Medley, Jill Zarin, Vicki Gunvalson, Shanna Moakler and Kendra Wilkinson are the guests.
“If your plastic surgeon gave you a blepharoplasty, what specific part of your body do they work on?” host Jane Lynch asks Zarin, 61, who got the answer right when she says, “Eyelids.”
Next up were Wilkinson, 40, and Medley, 60, but neither of them answered their questions correctly (one about the state of Michigan and another about Bill Hader’s show Barry). Lynch informs the group that clock “has run out and out of a possible 50,000, you have banked zero.” (Celebrity Weakest Link brings together eight celebrities to compete to win up to one million dollars for the charity of their choosing. After answering general knowledge questions, the contestants bank money as a group and at the end of each round, they vote out who they consider to be the weakest link.)
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Gunvalson, 63, seems confused and she interrupts Lynch to question how the game works. The former Real Housewives of Orange Country star specifically asks when they should press that button. Moakler, 50, clarified the rules, which Lynch notes couldn’t help when “the only question you got right was about plastic surgery.”
At the end of every episode, there are two people left standing as they determine who wins the money for their chosen charity. In addition to Zarin, Medley, Gunvalson, Moakler and Wilkinson, the Ex-Wives Club episode includes Cynthia Bailey, Tamar Braxton and Kate Gosselin.
Lynch previously teased what fans can expect from the revamped version of the gameshow.
“I like to make people feel comfortable and also have kind of the demeanor of a strict school marm. I think that kind of works,” she told TV Insider in September. “I think these folks know that my tongue is firmly wedged into my cheek and there hopefully is a twinkle in my eye, unlike [the host of The Weakest Link] Anne Robinson. She was as serious as a heart attack, and that’s why that show was so good. But I didn’t for a minute think I should go that route myself.”
Lynch said the best part was about getting the chance cross paths with her former coworkers and friends from the industry, adding, “It’s a small community, this acting community. Even if I haven’t worked with them, I know of them, and there’s an instant familiarity.”
Earlier this season, Scott Porter was one of the winners when he competed alongside other actors from various teen shows, including former Friday Night Lights costar Aimee Teegarden, Shenae Grimes and Matt Lanter from 90210, Beverly Mitchell and Barry Watson from 7th Heaven and more.
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“With a game like Weakest Link, people want to try and study but it’s really difficult to study for a catch-all trivia show like this. What I would recommend for people who are going on a show like this is to study game theory and to really understand the way the game works: the ins and outs,” Porter, 46, explained to Us. “So if you’re wrong — or if you’re going to be wrong — know it very quickly and just say the wrong answer or pass because the most important thing is keeping that time on the clock so the answers you do know can be answered and the money you can make can be banked.”
Porter did extensive research before participating in the show, adding, “For me, it was more about making sure to figure out a way to maximize my ability to not only bank money but keep time on the clock. That research did me some good because I ended up being the strongest link in a few rounds. The other part of Weakest Link is there’s a little bit of Survivor. There are little mini alliances that are going to form that were magnified on my particular episode because we had pairs from different TV shows. You had automatic alliances already set up that I knew I had to be aware of and I had to try to eliminate pieces to keep myself on the show — to give me a shot at being there in the end.”
He continued: “When you watch the show, you see some people sandbag a little bit. They’ll act like they’re not as smart as they are so that if they get to the final three, they’ll have a good shot of being in the final pair. I didn’t so much do that as to try and whittle down the alliance chances. I think it played out in my favor.”
Celebrity Weakest Link airs Mondays on Fox at 9 p.m. ET.
