{"id":15448,"date":"2019-11-14T15:54:07","date_gmt":"2019-11-14T15:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cmshub.wpengine.com\/?p=286938"},"modified":"2024-11-03T15:16:52","modified_gmt":"2024-11-03T15:16:52","slug":"alex-trebek-gets-choked-up-seeing-contestants-heartfelt-guess-as-final-jeopardy-answer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/alex-trebek-gets-choked-up-seeing-contestants-heartfelt-guess-as-final-jeopardy-answer\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Trebek Gets Choked Up Seeing Contestant\u2019s Heartfelt \u2018Guess\u2019 As Final Jeopardy Answer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">Alex Trebek has dedicated the past 35 years of his life to hosting <em>Jeopardy!<\/em> He\u2019s been a staple on our television screens, week after week, since 1984.<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">In March 2019, Alex publicly broke the news that he was diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer. He has been very open about his health battle and how his treatment \u2014 and the resulting bouts of depression \u2014 have impacted him.<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">Two months after making the heartbreaking announcement on the <em>Jeopardy!<\/em> stage, Alex won his sixth Emmy Award. It seemed his health was improving when he shared that his doctors believed his cancer was \u201cnear remission.\u201d<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-286944\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.thebreastcancersite.greatergood.com\/lt-trebek-choked-up\/\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"528\" class=\"size-full wp-image-286944 lazy\" data-src=\"https:\/\/d1dd4ethwnlwo2.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/jeopardy-trebek2.jpg\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/d1dd4ethwnlwo2.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/jeopardy-trebek2.jpg 500w, https:\/\/d1dd4ethwnlwo2.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/jeopardy-trebek2-160x169.jpg 160w, https:\/\/d1dd4ethwnlwo2.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/jeopardy-trebek2-320x338.jpg 320w\" data-sizes=\"(min-width:1600px) 992px, (min-width:1200px) 768px, (min-width:518px) 480px, (min-width:325px) 320px, 300px\"\/><\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">Photo: YouTube\/WSLS 10<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">But on the first night of the Tournament of Champions semifinals, Alex told the contestants he was reentering cancer treatment after encountering a setback in his recovery.<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">Contestant Dhruv Gaur couldn\u2019t shake the news and wanted to take the opportunity, right there on television and for all the world to see, to tell the legendary host just how much he cared.<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">And so Dhruv decided to enter his Final Jeopardy question with a heartfelt \u201cguess.\u201d<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-286943\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.thebreastcancersite.greatergood.com\/lt-trebek-choked-up\/\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"520\" class=\"size-full wp-image-286943 lazy\" data-src=\"https:\/\/d1dd4ethwnlwo2.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/jeopardy-trebek1.jpg\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/d1dd4ethwnlwo2.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/jeopardy-trebek1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/d1dd4ethwnlwo2.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/jeopardy-trebek1-163x169.jpg 163w, https:\/\/d1dd4ethwnlwo2.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/jeopardy-trebek1-325x338.jpg 325w\" data-sizes=\"(min-width:1600px) 992px, (min-width:1200px) 768px, (min-width:518px) 480px, (min-width:325px) 320px, 300px\"\/><\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">Photo: YouTube\/WSLS 10<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">Dhruv\u2019s message of love quickly sparked a national Twitter trend, #WeLoveYouAlex, and now people all over the world are saying the unexpected Jeopardy! moment made them cry, too.<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">In the clip below, see the touching TV moment that made Alex emotional.<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\"><span class=\"empty\">Proper BCS greatergood_ctg_abovevideo<\/span><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.thebreastcancersite.greatergood.com\/lt-trebek-choked-up\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Trebek has dedicated the past 35 years of his life to hosting Jeopardy! He\u2019s been a staple on our television screens, week after week, since 1984.In March 2019, Alex publicly broke the news that he was diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer. He has been very open about his health battle and how his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15449,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15448"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45716,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15448\/revisions\/45716"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}