Tell any Jeopardy fans this – “She’s been the devoted wife of Alex Trebek for thirty years, and was one of the first to spot the game show host’s cancer” – and they’ll answer, “Who is Jean Trebek?” Now, one year after announcing that he had been diagnosed with stage IV pancreatic cancer, Jean, 56, has shared some insight on her 80-year-old husband’s battle in a new essay for Guideposts, a spiritual publication. “We’d gone to Israel to visit the sites of the Holy Land in December 2018,” writes Jean. “We’d finished dinner one night, and I looked across the table at Alex.
His coloring seemed off. ‘You feeling okay?’ I asked.” He wasn’t. “Later, back home in California,” she writes, “things were still not right.
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