Max Greenfield and Camilla Luddington Serve Up a Major Usher Fail on 'Celebrity Jeopardy'

Mar. 15, 2025

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It’s not personal,Usher!

Max GreenfieldandCamilla Luddingtonfailed to name the rapper’s 2004 hit song during the Triple Jeopardy round in the season 3 premiere ofCelebrity Jeopardyon Wednesday, Jan. 8,

The two were competing in the game show againstW. Kamau Bell, who chose a prompt in the category “2004, what a year!”

The question read: “We got so caught up in this Usher song that it spent 12 weeks at the top of the charts.”

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Luddington proceeded to answer with a variation of Greenfield’s response. “What is ‘All Caught Up’?” she incorrectly guessed.

Bell, meanwhile, ran out of time before he could give an answer. Instead, he quipped, “Feels so awkward to be the Black guy and not know the Usher song,” to everybody’s laughter. “I was listening to Rage Against the Machine at the time, sorry everybody.”

Ultimately, Jennings revealed the answer to be, “What is ‘Yeah.’ The song is called ‘Yeah.’ "

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The incorrect guesses cost Greenfield, 45, and Luddington, 41, $1,500 each.

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Usher released the song — also featuringLil JonandLudacris— as the lead single from his fourth album and it made history as thelongest-running number one singlethat year.

Usher is pictured performing onstage during a taping of iHeartRadio’s Living Black 2023 Block Party in Inglewood, California.Kevin Winter/Getty Images

Usher performs onstage during a taping of iHeartRadio

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Bell received another music-related clue later in the round in the category “Hard New York Times Crossword Clues.” The question was, “11-down, 3 letters: Group that had the first hardcore rap album to reach No. 1 on Billboard.”

“Who isN.W.A.?” he correctly answered. “That’s more my style.”

Bell ended up advancing to the semi-finals with $11,009 in winnings.

Celebrity Jeopardyairs on Wednesdays at 9 p.m. ET on ABC.

source: people.com