Alex Trebek’s family includes his parents, two wives, and more.
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Alex Trebek with his spouse and family.
Alex Trebek’s family includes his current spouse Jean and an ex-wife, to whom he was married back in the 1970s. The beloved Jeopardy! host has two children with Jean and helped raise his first wife’s daughter. He is Canadian-born, and his father was a chef.
Trebek made the sad announcement on March 6,2019 that he has been diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer. On YouTube, he insisted that he was “going to fight this,” despite the dim prognosis for the disease at that stage.
He referenced his family, saying, “And with the love and support of my family and friends and with the help of your prayers also, I plan to beat the low survival rate statistics for this disease.”
Here’s what you need to know:
Jean Currivan Trebek is Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek’s second wife. (Getty)
Alex Trebek has been married twice. His second union has been especially enduring. In January 2019, he expressed that he wishes he had met his current wife, Jean, longer ago. Specifically, he wished they were able to enjoy a 70-year-plus marriage like George H. W. and Barbara Bush.
“I’m pretty satisfied with my life,” Trebek told People Magazine. “But my wife Jean and I have been together almost 29 years, and I was thinking about President Bush when he died, and all the comments about his life about what a nice guy he is, and how he and his wife had been together 73 years. I thought, oh my gosh… if I’d just met Jean in my 20s we could have had a longer life together.”
The pair married in 1990.
Happy #FathersDay! Emily shares a particularly memorable moment with her dad, Alex Trebek: https://t.co/exkKHfNRzk???????? pic.twitter.com/PZuhFPH51b
— Jeopardy! (@Jeopardy) June 19,2016
Alex Trebek and his wife Jean have a son and daughter together named Emily and Matthew. In January 2019, Emily was 27-years-old and Matthew was 29-years-old (What’s Alex Trebek’s age? How old is he? Alex Trebek is 78-years-old).
