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'Jeopardy' host Alex Trebek improving following mild heart attack
Published: 6/26/2012 2:23 PM
Last Modified: 6/26/2012 2:25 PM


In this May 21, 2012, file photo, honoree Alex Trebek, host of the game show "Jeopardy" holds a 71st Annual Peabody Award in New York. CHARLES SYKES/AP Photo, File

Alex Trebek, longtime host of the popular game show "Jeopardy!" is doing well following a mild heart attack Saturday.

Trebek, 71, is "up and about and in good spirits," according to deadline.com.

He was admitted to Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute in Los Angeles Saturday and remains there but has been moved to a regular room, according to the game show's production company Sony Pictures TV. Spokeswoman Paula Askanas said he "looks forward to returning home as soon as his doctors give their approval," reported the website.

"Trebek is in good spirits and is undergoing further testing," she said. "He is expected to fully recover and be back on 'Jeopardy!' when production begins taping in July for the new season, the show's 29th."

His show won its 14th Daytime Emmy Sunday for Best Game/Audience Participation Show. The winners were announced on cable channel HLN. In 2011, Trebek received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.



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Rita Sherrow grew up with TV. Yes, it was the ever-present “sister” from another techno mother. At first look, it was instant "Like." From then on, the TV had to be on in every room while she studied, elementary school through college. An Air Force brat, she attended school in three states (Oklahoma, Montana and Georgia) and two foreign countries (Germany and Bermuda) and graduated from Broken Arrow High School and the University of Tulsa with a degree in journalism/advertising. She first interned in the advertising world but, when a J-School professor (who also covered politics for the Tulsa World) offered her an internship at the newspaper, she took him up on it. The rest is history. She has served as bridal editor, senior features writer for the women’s section, food editor and is television editor of the Tulsa World. In addition to writing about TV shows and interviewing the stars for “Scene” stories, she also writes a TV column for Weekend and produces the Sunday TV World listings magazine.

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