Alex Trebek in ‘Jeopardy!’ with Heart Attack
Posted on December 12, 2007
“Jeopardy!” game show host, Alex Trebek, was hospitalized Tuesday after a minor heart attack, a spokesman for the game show said. Trebek, 67, was admitted to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center late Monday night and was expected to remain there about two days for tests and observation, said show spokesman Jeff Ritter.
A post on the official Jeopardy! website says that Trebek is “resting comfortably in a Los Angeles hospital, and he will be back in the studio for the next scheduled tapings in January.” A “Jeopardy!” spokeswoman said the Canadian-born Trebek had the heart attack Monday night at his home in the Los Angeles area but did not disclose any further details.
“Jeopardy!,” a general knowledge quiz, is one of the longest running game shows on U.S. television. It reaches nearly 39 million viewers a week and airs in over 99 percent of the United States.
Trebek escaped a car crash unhurt in 2004 when he fell asleep at the wheel, sideswiped a string of mailboxes and wound up in a ditch, according to the California Highway Patrol. The Jan 30, 2004, accident happened in the town of Templeton, not far from Trebek’s Creston Farms thoroughbred horse ranch.
Source - ustoday.com
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