‘Jeopardy!’ fans freak after contestant wins with wrong answer

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Jeopardy! fans lost their minds earlier this week when a contestant won the game after mispronouncing actor Ewan McGregor’s name.

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Professor Melissa Klapper was answering a question in the “Quite the Fish Story” category when she made the error.

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“The Force of Lasse Hallstrom was strong to pull in this Scot to play a fisheries expert in Salmon Fishing in the Yemen,” host Ken Jennings read.

Klapper buzzed in with “Ewan Gregor,” winning $600 and giving her the edge over the two other contestants, Jake Garrett and Kelly Berry.

Jennings allowed her response, saying, “That is correct, taking you to $5,200, you’re just off the lead.”

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But Klapper’s answer didn’t sit well with viewers at home who immediately took to social media to criticize the incorrect answer.

“We all heard Ewan Gregor. How did the judges not?” one fan questioned.

Another viewer tweeted: “That red-headed lady who won answered a question incorrectly. She said Ewan Gregor instead of Ewen MCGREGOR. We ran it back twice. She didn’t say it. She shouldn’t have won.”

Tagging the show’s official Twitter handle, another fan fumed: “@Jeopardy tonight’s winner shouldn’t have won. She answered Ewan Gregor — not Ewan McGregor. That guy got screwed.”

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“Melissa missed the question where the answer was Ewan McGregor! She said Ewan Gregor….we replayed it several times. She was awarded points in error…and now she won. Unfair to other players,” a fourth person snapped.

Klapper went on to become the night’s champ, dethroning Barry and defeating Garrett by $1.

One fan tried to draw Jennings into the fray by directing a tweet at the game show host: “Hi Ken, on tonight’s Jeopardy!, Kelly answered ‘Ewan Gregor’ to the question about Salmon Fishing in the Yemen and was given the points when the answer should have been Ewan McGregor. Were the scores ever corrected?”

Later, some fans took to social media to defend Klapper, saying that slowed down footage appeared to show she said his full name.

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“The ‘Mc’ is definitely there but barely audible,” one person shared, while another added, “It was quick but it looked like she said the entire name.”

The latest controversy comes after the show accidentally revealed the final scores of the players during host Mayim Bialik’s opening monologue during the first night of the High School Reunion finale earlier this month.

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Executive producer Michael Davies later apologized for the gaffe, saying that the show “totally blew it.”

“Right off the bat, apologies to our entire audience,” Davies says on the Inside Jeopardy! podcast. “We totally blew it at the top of the show. We made a horrible error where we revealed the final scores at the end in the opening cutaway shot during Mayim’s monologue.”

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