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BrandonFG

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Re: Match Game returning to ABC?
« Reply #15 on: June 19, 2025, 08:32:59 PM »
Selena Gomez posted a few on-set selfies to her IG. Set looks a little smaller, but mostly appears the same.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DLFuhoKOoYM/?img_index=2
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Matt Ottinger

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Re: Match Game returning to ABC?
« Reply #16 on: June 19, 2025, 08:45:22 PM »
The complete roster of celebrities have been announced:

https://www.tvinsider.com/1197820/match-game-returns-host-celebrity-contestants-premiere-date/

I had hoped that Martin Short would be able to call in favors from his really famous friends.  Aside from Selena and other OMITB castmates (but not Steve Martin), the only other celebrity with a connection to Short seems to be his old SCTV pal Andrea Martin.
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BrandonFG

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Re: Match Game returning to ABC?
« Reply #17 on: June 19, 2025, 09:08:07 PM »
That list claims Andrea Martin appeared on the 70s version, and I'm intrigued for dubious reasons. That's news to me.
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NickintheATL

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Re: Match Game returning to ABC?
« Reply #18 on: June 19, 2025, 09:44:54 PM »
That list claims Andrea Martin appeared on the 70s version, and I'm intrigued for dubious reasons. That's news to me.

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BrandonFG

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Re: Match Game returning to ABC?
« Reply #19 on: June 19, 2025, 10:47:43 PM »
Okay so I wasn't going crazy*. Good to know.

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Re: Match Game returning to ABC?
« Reply #20 on: June 21, 2025, 11:32:39 PM »
I had hoped that Martin Short would be able to call in favors from his really famous friends.  Aside from Selena and other OMITB castmates (but not Steve Martin), the only other celebrity with a connection to Short seems to be his old SCTV pal Andrea Martin.
Selena Gomez is a pretty solid get. I doubt Steve Martin would do the show; he hasn’t done a game show since the Marshall version of Hollywood Squares in 1977.

It would have been nice to see Maya Rudolph, but she’s not on the list. Most of the people with whom he did SNL wouldn’t be worth putting on today, except maybe Billy Crystal (EDIT: and Julia Louis-Dreyfus).