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* CanadaEh: He was a native of Ontario, and while not frequent, he sometimes brought up his Canadian heritage for laughs. He also used the Canadian pronunciation "soary" regularly on ''Jeopardy!'' As he was also bilingual in French from childhood,[[note]]His mother was French-Canadian and he grew up speaking French with her as much as English with his father (and everyone else in his neighbourhood)[[/note]] he would tend to pronounce French words or French loanwords in the "proper" manner (most notably "genre").
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In March 2019, Trebek announced his diagnosis of Stage IV pancreatic cancer. As he underwent treatments for the disease, he continued hosting ''Jeopardy'' until his death on November 8, 2020. After several guest hosts filled in for the remainder of the 2020-21 season, Creator/MayimBialik and former champion Ken Jennings were announced as his co-host successors in the summer of 2022 after alternating in multi-week stints for the majority of the 2021-2022 season after Mike Richards[[note]]Who was the executive producer of ''Jeopardy'' from May 2020 to August 2021 (succeeding Harry Friedman after his retirement at the end of the 2019-2020 season) and briefly succeeded Trebek as the host of the program[[/note]] was let go after taping a week's worth of episodes after various controversies came to light.[[note]]Due to scrutiny over misogynistic and offensive remarks he made on his 2013-2014 podcast ''The Randumb Show'' and prior wrongful termination lawsuits filed by two models during his 2009-2019 producing tenure on ''The Price is Right''.[[/note]] Bialik was eventually fired as host of the syndicated version early in Season 40 in December 2023 after going on strike in the summer of 2023, leaving Jennings the sole host.

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In March 2019, Trebek announced his diagnosis of Stage IV pancreatic cancer. As he underwent treatments for the disease, he continued hosting ''Jeopardy'' until his death on November 8, 2020. After several guest hosts filled in for the remainder of the 2020-21 season, Creator/MayimBialik and former champion Ken Jennings were announced as his co-host successors in the summer of 2022 after alternating in multi-week stints for the majority of the 2021-2022 season after Mike Richards[[note]]Who was the executive producer of ''Jeopardy'' from May 2020 to August 2021 (succeeding Harry Friedman after his retirement at the end of the 2019-2020 season) and briefly succeeded Trebek as the host of the program[[/note]] was let go after taping a week's worth of episodes after various controversies came to light.[[note]]Due to scrutiny over misogynistic and offensive remarks he made on his 2013-2014 podcast ''The Randumb Show'' and prior wrongful termination lawsuits filed by two models during his 2009-2019 producing tenure on ''The Price is Right''.[[/note]] Bialik was eventually fired as host of the syndicated version early in Season 40 in December 2023 after going on strike in the summer of 2023, leaving Jennings as the sole host.
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In March 2019, Trebek announced his diagnosis of Stage IV pancreatic cancer. As he underwent treatments for the disease, he continued hosting ''Jeopardy'' until his death on November 8, 2020. After several guest hosts filled in for the remainder of the 2020-21 season, Creator/MayimBialik and former champion Ken Jennings were announced as his co-host successors in the summer of 2022 after alternating in multi-week stints for the majority of the 2021-2022 season after Mike Richards[[note]]Who was the executive producer of ''Jeopardy'' from May 2020 to August 2021 (succeeding Harry Friedman after his retirement at the end of the 2019-2020 season) and briefly succeeded Trebek as the host of the program[[/note]] was let go after taping a week's worth of episodes after various controversies came to light.[[note]]Due to scrutiny over misogynistic and offensive remarks he made on his 2013-2014 podcast ''The Randumb Show'' and prior wrongful termination lawsuits filed by two models during his 2009-2019 producing tenure on ''The Price is Right''.[[/note]] Bialik was eventually fired as host of the syndicated version in December 2023 after going on strike in the summer of 2023, leaving Jennings the sole host.

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In March 2019, Trebek announced his diagnosis of Stage IV pancreatic cancer. As he underwent treatments for the disease, he continued hosting ''Jeopardy'' until his death on November 8, 2020. After several guest hosts filled in for the remainder of the 2020-21 season, Creator/MayimBialik and former champion Ken Jennings were announced as his co-host successors in the summer of 2022 after alternating in multi-week stints for the majority of the 2021-2022 season after Mike Richards[[note]]Who was the executive producer of ''Jeopardy'' from May 2020 to August 2021 (succeeding Harry Friedman after his retirement at the end of the 2019-2020 season) and briefly succeeded Trebek as the host of the program[[/note]] was let go after taping a week's worth of episodes after various controversies came to light.[[note]]Due to scrutiny over misogynistic and offensive remarks he made on his 2013-2014 podcast ''The Randumb Show'' and prior wrongful termination lawsuits filed by two models during his 2009-2019 producing tenure on ''The Price is Right''.[[/note]] Bialik was eventually fired as host of the syndicated version early in Season 40 in December 2023 after going on strike in the summer of 2023, leaving Jennings the sole host.
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In March 2019, Trebek announced his diagnosis of Stage IV pancreatic cancer. As he underwent treatments for the disease, he continued hosting ''Jeopardy'' until his death on November 8, 2020. After several guest hosts filled in for the remainder of the 2020-21 season, Creator/MayimBialik and former champion Ken Jennings were announced as his co-host successors in the summer of 2022 after alternating in multi-week stints for the majority of the 2021-2022 season after Mike Richards[[note]]Who was the executive producer of ''Jeopardy'' from May 2020 to August 2021 (succeeding Harry Friedman after his retirement at the end of the 2019-2020 season) and briefly succeeded Trebek as the host of the program[[/note]] was let go after taping a week's worth of episodes after various controversies came to light.[[note]]Due to scrutiny over misogynistic and offensive remarks he made on his 2013-2014 podcast ''The Randumb Show'' and prior wrongful termination lawsuits filed by two models during his 2009-2019 producing tenure on ''The Price is Right''.[[/note]]

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In March 2019, Trebek announced his diagnosis of Stage IV pancreatic cancer. As he underwent treatments for the disease, he continued hosting ''Jeopardy'' until his death on November 8, 2020. After several guest hosts filled in for the remainder of the 2020-21 season, Creator/MayimBialik and former champion Ken Jennings were announced as his co-host successors in the summer of 2022 after alternating in multi-week stints for the majority of the 2021-2022 season after Mike Richards[[note]]Who was the executive producer of ''Jeopardy'' from May 2020 to August 2021 (succeeding Harry Friedman after his retirement at the end of the 2019-2020 season) and briefly succeeded Trebek as the host of the program[[/note]] was let go after taping a week's worth of episodes after various controversies came to light.[[note]]Due to scrutiny over misogynistic and offensive remarks he made on his 2013-2014 podcast ''The Randumb Show'' and prior wrongful termination lawsuits filed by two models during his 2009-2019 producing tenure on ''The Price is Right''.[[/note]]
[[/note]] Bialik was eventually fired as host of the syndicated version in December 2023 after going on strike in the summer of 2023, leaving Jennings the sole host.
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* VetinariJobSecurity: ''Jeopardy!'' infamously struggled to replace him and went into Season 38 still without a permanent host before settling for Ken Jennings and Creator/MayimBialik in Season 39.

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* VetinariJobSecurity: ''Jeopardy!'' infamously struggled to replace him after Mike Richards stepped down from the program after one spectacular week in August 2021 and went into Season 38 still without a permanent host before settling for Ken Jennings and Creator/MayimBialik in Season 39.39 before the latter was fired in December 2023 early in Season 40.

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