Cousins Sean (important, proper, with Ken Jennings) and Dan McShane (inset with Alex Trebek) each appeared on "Jeopardy!" -- however they do not speak about it.
What's … an unstated legacy for this Lengthy Island household?
West Islip cousins Dan and Sean McShane have made their clan fairly proud as they’ve each competed on “Jeopardy!” — but it surely’s one thing they dare not speak about with each other.
Dan, 35, reached the present’s “Match of Champions” in 2013 — raking in additional than $62,000 within the course of — and Sean, a 25-year-old current historical past grad from Boston School competed Monday evening for the very first time. He comfortably gained a cool $20,600 in his debut.
“I purposely didn’t even inform Dan I used to be happening the present till after we taped,” Sean instructed The Publish, including that he needed to cement his personal legacy and keep away from any potential conflicts of curiosity.
“I instructed the present’s manufacturing workforce I hadn’t talked about it to him in any respect they usually all gasped in shock.”
However there’s no dangerous blood operating within the McShane household as each cousins get alongside fantastically, based on Sean.
Dan — who, like Sean, was Quiz Bowl captain at St. Anthony’s Excessive College in Huntington — really couldn’t be extra proud to listen to his little cousin could be answering within the type of a query to host Ken Jennings.
“Once I lastly instructed him after taping the present, he mentioned ‘oh that’s nice, I’ll remember to by no means communicate to you about it,’ ” Sean mentioned. “Dan mentioned to me ‘it’s the one factor you’re going to listen to about for the following yr of your life so I’ll spare you from that.’ ”
Dan remembered his personal every day double dose of fame. “That’s all anybody needed to speak to me about or ask about for not less than a yr after my episodes,” Dan, who does communication work for Columbia College now, instructed The Publish. “‘What was the present like? What was Alex Trebek like?’ There have been questions like that continuous. I needed to avoid wasting Sean not less than one dialog like that.”
As Sean remembers, Dan’s large “Jeopardy!” run was the toast of the island practically a decade in the past.
“Everybody and their mother was speaking about it on LI, he was a neighborhood movie star,” Sean mentioned. “Our highschool made an announcement mid-day telling college students to look at him and it was the ‘large factor’ throughout our Christmas and Thanksgiving.”
Since Sean taped in October, he’s already gotten a style of the sudden movie star standing.
“Individuals are sending me screenshots of their household group chats, it’s throughout Fb, and I’m listening to ‘my mother is rooting for you, my grandma goes to look at your present!’ ” Sean recalled. “‘All of that's nice, however I don’t even know your grandma.”
He described the fandom “bombardment” as being “cool however an annoyance” and sees Dan’s rationale an increasing number of every day.
“I admire that we’re maintaining it unstated,” Sean mentioned. “He simply is aware of what it’s like and what I’m in retailer for throughout the subsequent couple of years.”
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