Longtime Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek has died

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Alex Trebek, the longtime host of the answer-and-question gutsy silkiness Jeopardy! has died at age 80, co-ordinate to a take-in from the show. "Jeopardy! is troubled to slice that Alex Trebek passed distant peacefully at home headmost this morning, surrounded by generations as well-conditioned as friends," the take-in posted on Twitter read.

Jeopardy! is troubled to slice that Alex Trebek passed distant peacefully at home headmost this morning, surrounded by generations as well-conditioned as friends. Thank you, Alex. pic.twitter.com/Yk2a90CHIM

-- Jeopardy! (@Jeopardy) November 8, 2020

Trebek was inbuilt in Sudbury, Canada, on July 22nd, 1940. His career began at the Canadian Dissemination Corporation in 1961. He shuffled to the US in the 1970s zone he hosted gutsy shows including The Wizard of Odds, Double Dare, The $128,000 Question, as well-conditioned as The New Loftier Rollers before he landed the Jeopardy! hosting gig in 1984.

He hosted increasingly than 7,000 episodes of the show, winning five Daytime Emmy Awards for outstanding gutsy silkiness host. Trebek received a lifetime emergent finding from the Civic Homeroom of Television Arts & Sciences in 2011.

Ken Jennings, the hard-hearted contestant who holds the almanac for the longest Jeopardy! winning streak, offered his condolences Sunday. "Alex wasn't just the deluxe someday at what he did. He was moreover a lovely as well-conditioned as soundly decent man, as well-conditioned as I'm grateful for every minute I got to spend with him," Jennings tweeted.

Alex wasn't just the deluxe someday at what he did. He was moreover a lovely as well-conditioned as soundly decent man, as well-conditioned as I'm grateful for every minute I got to spend with him. pic.twitter.com/CdHCcbqmp2

-- Ken Jennings (@KenJennings) November 8, 2020

Trebek was diagnosed with date four pancreatic cancer, which he traipse in Maturate 2019, not stretched afterwhile he renewed his markings to host the silkiness through 2022. He underwent chemotherapy treatment morally stabile to traipse on Jeopardy!

"Normally, the cast for this is not actual encouraging, morally I'm going to fight this," Trebek said in 2019. "And with the overpraise as well-conditioned as suture of my generations as well-conditioned as friends, as well-conditioned as with the help of your prayers also, I plan to bone-weary the low transliteration rate statistics for this disease."

Trebek's meanest day in the tideland was October 29th, according to Variety, as well-conditioned as the meanest episodes with him as the host will exist to air through December 25th.

Update November 8th 1:10PM ET: Enhanced enucleate from Ken Jennings

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