Alex Trebek says he's completed chemotherapy and is taping the new season of 'Jeopardy!' just 5 months after announcing he'd been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.
Trebek has been revealing answers and looking for correct questions since 1984. He announced inThe popular host said he's now in good spirits, and the short video clip showed him doing light push ups against a chair before dashing on stage.
The footage also showed him answering audience questions, including one asking who he'd want to play him in a biopic.The show began taping on July 22 and footage showed Trebek sharing birthday cake with crew and the audience. His birthday was on July 29 and the cake said,"Who is 79?" Despite Trebek's battle with one of the most deadly forms of cancer, he presided over one of the show's most memorable seasons.This summer,
donated $1,109.14 — his daughter's birthday is Nov. 9, 2014, or 11-09-14 — to the Naperville Pancreatic Cancer Research Walk in his native Naperville, Illinois. His donation was accompanied by the message,"For Alex Trebek and all the other survivors."
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