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The legendary host of Jeopardy!, Alex Trebek, has had a very public battle with cancer, which moved him to share with The New York Times how he plans to cope with the illness. Trebek was diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer in March 2019. He received some optimistic reports from his physicians, but over time his diagnosis worsened. […]
Following up on a similar act of generosity that we’ll get to in a second, TMZ reports that Jeopardy! mainstay and GOAT gameshow host Alex Trebek has donated $500,000 to a homeless shelter charity looking to get a new facility up and running in Southern California’s San Fernando Valley by next year. Trebek’s sizable contribution to the […]
Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune will be filmed without a live studio audience due to the coronavirus, TMZ reports. One of the reasons for the decision was reportedly over concern for Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek. The longtime host of the game show was diagnosed with Stage 4 pancreatic cancer last year and as a result has a compromised immune system that […]
Alex Trebek has donated $100,000 to the Hope of the Valley Rescue Mission, a nonprofit organization that is “focused on preventing, reducing and eliminating poverty, hunger and homelessness”, TMZ has learned. Ken Craft, the organization’s founder and CEO, told TMZ that Trebek recently contacted him to request a tour of a new shelter being built in North Hollywood. After his visit, Craft recalls the Jeopardy host, who has […]
Kanye West‘s uneven religious experiment Jesus Is King found itself on the Jeopardy! stage Tuesday night. Unfortunately, its presence did not result in the accumulation of any additional money for the night’s contestants. The moment went down during the Alex Trebek-hosted classic’s Greatest of All Time special, with album standouts “Church on Sunday” and “Follow God” […]
Jeopardy! has been facing criticism the past few days for determining that one contestant gave an incorrect response. In the category “Where’s that Church?,” the trio of contestants were given the clue, “Built in the 300s A.D., the Church of the Nativity.” “What is Palestine?,” contestant Katie Needle answered after buzzing in. Host Alex Trebek responded with a kindly, “No.” People understood Katie’s confusion […]
During a rare interview with Michael Strahan that’s set to air on Thursday evening, Alex Trebek and his wife are opening up about the toll that the legendary Jeopardy! host’s battle with cancer is taking upon the both of them. According to Deadline, at one point in the interview Trebek says that concerns and outpouring […]
On Monday afternoon’s broadcast of Jeopardy!, the contestant in third place opted to forgo a guess at the correct answer during Final Jeopardy in order to tell longtime host Alex Trebek that he was loved. His intentionally incorrect response caused him to fall to $5, but it got Trebek choked up. “That’s very kind of […]
Jeopardy! is full of answers next to nobody would know off the top of their heads. But on Friday, all three contestants had NBA history as a blind spot for some reason. The contestants weaved their way through the board and saved the clues in the “Eastern Conference” category for last. Kris selected a $400 clue that read: […]
Alex Trebek, noting the “curves and unexpected events” of pancreatic cancer treatment, announced Tuesday that he’s undergoing additional chemotherapy. The beloved Jeopardy! host shared a video update in which he called previous assessments of his treatment needs “premature” and said doctors are currently re-examining the situation. “This summer, because I was making such good progress, we […]
