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George Alexander "Alex" Trebek (/trɨˈbɛk/; born 22 July 1940)[1] is a Canadian-American television personality. He has been the host of the syndicated game show Jeopardy! since 1984; before that, he hosted other game shows, including The Wizard of Odds, High Rollers, and Pitfall. Trebek has made appearances in numerous television series, usually portraying himself. A native of Canada, he became a naturalized United States citizen in 1998.[2]
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1 Early life
2 Career
3 Personal life
3.1 Health and personal incidents
4 Honors and awards
5 Television and film appearances
5.1 Shows hosted
5.2 Cameo appearances
6 References
7 External links
Early life[edit]

Trebek was born in Sudbury, Ontario, the son of Lucille (Lagacé), a Franco-Ontarian, and George Edward Trebek, a chef who had immigrated from Ukraine as a child.[3] Alex graduated from Lisgar Collegiate Institute in 1957 before graduating from Toronto's Malvern Collegiate Institute in 1958, and later the University of Ottawa with a degree in philosophy in 1961.[4] As a student at the University of Ottawa, he was a member of the English Debating Society. Interested in a career in broadcast news, he began his broadcasting career working for the CBC as a newscaster and sportscaster. Trebek specialized in national news and covered a wide range of special events for the CBC's radio and television divisions, including curling[5] and horse racing.[6]
Career[edit]

Trebek's first hosting job was on a Canadian music program called Music Hop in 1963. In 1966, he hosted high school quiz show Reach for the Top. In 1973, he moved to the United States and worked for NBC as host of a new game show, The Wizard of Odds. A year later, Trebek hosted the popular Merrill Heatter-Bob Quigley game show, High Rollers, which had two incarnations on NBC (1974–76 and 1978–80) and an accompanying syndicated season (1975–76). In between stints as host of High Rollers, Trebek hosted the short-lived CBS game show, Double Dare (not to be confused with the 1986 Nickelodeon game show of the same name), which turned out to be both the only CBS network show Trebek hosted and the first show he hosted for what was then Mark Goodson-Bill Todman Productions, as well as the second season of the syndicated series The $128,000 Question, which taped in Toronto. Since the second incarnation of High Rollers premiered while The $128,000 Question was still airing and taping episodes, Trebek became one of two hosts to emcee shows in both the United States and Canada, joining Jim Perry, who was hosting Definition and Headline Hunters in Canada and Card Sharks, which coincidentally premiered the same day as High Rollers in 1978, in the United States. Trebek's Francophone side was put on display in 1978, in a special bilingual edition of Reach for the Top and its Radio-Canada equivalent Génies en herbe. In this show Trebek alternated smoothly between French and English throughout.[7]
Like other hosts of the day, Trebek made several guest appearances as panelist or player on other shows; one of his guest appearances was on a special week of NBC's Card Sharks, in 1980, where he and several other game show hosts (including Allen Ludden, Bill Cullen, Wink Martindale, Jack Clark, Gene Rayburn, and Jim Lange) competed in a week-long round robin tournament for charity. Trebek won the tournament, defeating Bill Cullen in the finals. Trebek also appeared as a celebrity teammate on the NBC game show The Magnificent Marble Machine in 1975, as well as the Tom Kennedy-hosted NBC word game To Say the Least in 1978. Both of those shows were produced by Merrill Heatter-Bob Quigley Productions, which also produced High Rollers, the show Trebek was hosting during both of those guest appearances.
After High Rollers was canceled in 1980, Trebek moved on to Battlestars for NBC. The series debuted in October 1981 and was canceled in April 1982 after only six months on the air. In September 1981 Trebek took the helm of the syndicated Pitfall, which taped in Vancouver and forced him to commute as he had while hosting High Rollers and The $128,000 Question in 1978. Pitfall was canceled after its production company, Catalena Productions, went bankrupt, and as a result, he was never paid for that series. After both series ended, Trebek hosted a revival of Battlestars called The New Battlestars that ended after thirteen weeks, then shot a series of pilots for other series for producers Merrill Heatter (who he had worked for on High Rollers and Battlestars) and Merv Griffin. The Heatter pilots were Malcolm, an NBC-ordered pilot featuring Trebek with an animated character as his co-host, and Lucky Numbers, an attempt at a revival of High Rollers that didn't sell. For Griffin he shot two pilots for a revival of Jeopardy!, which he began hosting in 1984 and has done ever since.

Alex Trebek with a Jeopardy! Kids Week contestant, Jacob D. Joyner
In 1987, while still hosting Jeopardy!, Trebek returned to daytime television as host of NBC's Classic Concentration, his second show for Mark Goodson. He hosted both shows simultaneously until 20 September 1991, when Classic Concentration aired its final episode. In 1991 Trebek made broadcast history by becoming the first person to host three American game shows at the same time, earning this distinction on 4 February 1991, when he took over for Lynn Swann as host of NBC's To Tell the Truth, which he hosted until the end of the series' run on 31 May 1991.
In August 1995, Trebek filled in for Charles Gibson for a week on Good Morning America.
Trebek and Pat Sajak, host of Wheel of Fortune, traded places on April Fools' Day 1997. Sajak hosted Jeopardy!, and Trebek hosted Wheel of Fortune with Sajak's wife, Lesly, as Trebek's co-host.[8] Sajak and Wheel of Fortune co-host Vanna White played contestants at the wheel, with winnings going toward charities.
Trebek appeared on Celebrity Poker Showdown in 2005. He came in second place in his qualifying game, losing to Cheryl Hines. On 9 May 2008, Trebek was a guest on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, on which he discussed his 24-year career as the host of Jeopardy!.
Trebek also appears in many Colonial Penn Life Insurance commercials, and reprised his role as host of To Tell the Truth in a 2010 advertisement for DirecTV.
Trebek is expected to retire from Jeopardy! at the end of Season 32 (2015–2016), after having completed a long tenure with the program. The show's production company, Sony Pictures Television, has considered Matt Lauer to be his replacement for the 2016–2017 season;[9] the Today lead anchor's name is said to be at the top of SPT's list of candidates for next-generation Jeopardy! hosts, which also includes Anderson Cooper, Brian Williams, and Dan Patrick.[10]

Alex Trebek at Kadena Air Base, Japan on 31 March 2007
In December 2010, Trebek guest-starred on How I Met Your Mother.[11]
Personal life[edit]

Trebek became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1998.[12] Trebek has been married to Jean Currivan Trebek since 1990. His ex-wife is Elaine Callei.[13]
In 1996, Trebek ran the Olympic Torch in Jacksonville, Florida, through a leg of its journey to Atlanta.[14]
In late 2001, during Jeopardy!'s season 18, Trebek shaved the mustache that he had worn for over 30 years. He wore a fake mustache for the first half of the 1 April 2008, episode as an April Fools' joke.[15]
Trebek owned and managed a 700-acre (2.8 km2) ranch near Paso Robles in Creston, California, known as Creston Farms, where he bred and trained thoroughbred race horses.[12] Trebek's colt, Reba's Gold, is the stakes-winning son of Slew o' Gold.[16]
Health and personal incidents[edit]
On 30 January 2004, Trebek escaped major injury afte