A game show connection

When ABC started its 100K Pyramid rewind last summer, the celeb list looked a bit familiar. A lot of celeb players from Celebrity Name Game showed up on the ABC remake. I speculated that the network might be using CNG - which is a Pyramid knockoff, after all - as a farm team for celeb talent on its new version of the old format.

I have no idea if my idle thought was true or not. But it really does seem that GSN has picked up some civvie contestants from Celebrity Name Game for stints on Idiotest. This story about contestants Jodi Wofford and Nada Jawad (see screenshot) says...

A producer of Celebrity Name Game remembered Wofford from her appearance on the show and called her in November to find out if she would be interested in competing on another game show the next month.

That other game show was, of course, Idiotest. Now comes news that another civvie pair, Kimia Semani and Brigitte Benchanan, have made the trek from CNG to Ben Gleib's visual puzzle fest. Sure enough, the linked story comments...

The two were invited to be contestants on Idiotest because of their past involvement on Celebrity Name Game.

Hey, you find contestants wherever you can. Though the gameplay connection between the word game and the puzzle game seems a little tenuous.

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