Remembering 30 Years Of Love Between Alex And Jean Trebek [Video]

Alex Trebek had been with his wife, Jean Trebek, for 30 years until he recently passed away from pancreatic cancer at the age of 80. They had met back in 1988 through a friend and Trebek had been hosting Jeopardy! for four years at that point and was recently divorced from his first wife, Elaine Callei. His future wife, Jean, whose last name was Currivan at the time, was working for one of Trebek’s friends as a part-time bookkeeper.

“With Jean it just happened,” Trebek writes in his memoir The Answer Is…Reflections On My Life. “Sometimes you look at something, you look at someone, and you know. I mean, you’ve heard stories of people who meet and decide within half an hour; I knew this was going to be the person I’d end up with. With Jeanie that’s how it was. I wasn’t looking for love. But I recognized at a gut level that here was …