Newest ‘Jeopardy!’ Champ Amy Schneider ‘Doing Fine’ After Being Robbed

The newest champ of Jeopardy!, Amy Schneider, has revealed she’s been robbed but she’s doing okay despite the scary incident. “Hi all! So, first off: I’m fine,” the 42-year-old tweeted out. “But I got robbed yesterday, lost my ID, credit cards, and phone. I then couldn’t really sleep last night, and have been dragging myself around all day trying to replace everything.”

She said in a second tweet that she will be unable to “start writing tonight’s game thread” due to the robbery. “And if I keep winning, it may take a bit for me to get caught up… Thanks for your patience!”

Amy Schneider of ‘Jeopardy!’ mentally recovering after being robbed of personal belongings

Schneider recently gained recognition for her record-breaking run on Jeopardy!, becoming the first transgender person to reach the show’s Tournament of Champions.

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“Once I got to episodes three and four, I knew the fifth one was in sight,” she said to ABC7. “Once I got it, it was a great feeling, mostly because I was having fun and I didn’t want to stop. By qualifying for the fifth one, I knew I would come back.”

Schneider also wants to be a voice and advocate for other transgender girls and women. “I am from Ohio where the only trans people I thought of were drag queens or prostitutes,” she says. “Seeing other trans women in a good spotlight inspired me to not be afraid of trying to compete in the thing I have always loved.”

Schneider is now known as the show’s highest-earning female contender for which she’s garnered some hate because she’s transgender. A lot of people have said that she doesn’t deserve the title because she wasn’t born female. Despite this, Schneider is proud of her success. “I’m not going to pretend I didn’t think I could do good, but this has just been so much better than I thought I would do that it’s really hard to say what it means yet,” she said back in November 2021. “It’s just so surprising.”

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