Published April 30, 2026, 10:00 p.m. ET Jean Smart may be a four-time Emmy winner for  Hacks  alone, but at the end of the day, she’s also a mom, and nothing is going to be more exciting to her kids than their favorite internet celeb appearing on her show. Enter Trisha Paytas in Hacks Season 5. **Spoilers ahead for the first five episodes of  Hacks  Season 5, now streaming on HBO Max ** In the newest episode of the HBO Max comedy series, Deborah (Smart) is recruited by her daughter, DJ ( Kaitlin Olson ), to go on an all-celebrity version of The Amazing Race , alongside notable names like Drew and Jonathan Scott — a.k.a the Property Brothers — J.R. Smith and Richard Jefferson, and, of course, Paytas and her on-screen Race partner, Jordan Firstman . According to Smart, while her job has certainly given her brownie points with her sons — 36-year-old Connor and 17-year-old Forrest — in the past, nothing has or will eclipse the Paytas of it all.…