Jeopardy host Alex Trebek passed away peacefully at home on November 8, 2020.
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Jeopardy honored former host Alex Trebek and his impressive legacy in the popular games program with a gripping tribute video aired at the end of Friday’s episode. Trebek passed away in November 2020 of pancreatic cancer at age 80.
Trebek has been the host of the Jeopardy series since 1984 and his contract would continue until 2023. New Threatened deliveries by Trebek offered by early 2021.
The new video shows how Trebek talks to contestants during his 36 years in the program and is his usual friendly self as Peter Allen / Dean Pitchford’s song “Once Before I Go” plays. The video ends with the message “Dedicated to Alex Trebek: forever in our hearts / always our inspiration.”
The day after Trebek died, Jeopardy paid tribute to him with another short video and a tweet that reads: “Today we honor Alex Trebek. For more than three decades, he has brought integrity, humor and intelligence into his duties as host of Jeopardy. He will be in our hearts forever.”
In 2019, Trebek announced that he had been diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer, but that he remained hopeful. “Normally the forecast for this is not very encouraging, but I will fight against it, and I will continue to work,” Trebek said.
In January 2020, when asked by Entertainment Weekly about what he wanted to say in his latest episode of Jeopardy, Trebek said: ‘I will say goodbye and I will say to people:’ Do not ask me who is going to replace me, because I have no but I’m sure if you give them the same love and attention and respect you’ve shown me over the last thirty years, then it’s going to be a success and the show will remain a success. we meet again, God bless you and goodbye. ‘
Jeopardy producers are currently testing host, while the show finds a permanent replacement for Trebek. Ken Jennings, one of the largest participants in the history of the program, will be the first of a series of hosts. The episodes presented by Jennings and other interim hosts will air from January 11th.
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