2019 Daytime Emmys: Alex Trebek Wins Outstanding Game Show Host
At the 46th Annual Daytime Emmys ceremony on May 5, 2019, Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek picked up the Outstanding Game Show Host award, a prize he last won in 2008. Having publicly announced this past March that he has been diagnosed with advanced pancreatic cancer, the beloved 78-year-old host of Jeopardy! acknowledged to the audience that he had his worries that he might be getting this award out of sympathy.
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He then recounted how before the Emmys took place in 2018, he had undergone brain surgery to remove life-threatening blood clots. “”You think that would have elicited a certain amount of sympathy,” Trebek noted, “But I didn’t win!” That realization led him to conclusion that he was getting the 2019 award on merit and not pity. “You guys like me, and you value my work. I tell you if that’s the case, I can live with that,” Trebek said in closing.
Later, Trebek talked more about what the award meant to him. He also talked about current Jeopardy! superchamp James Holzhauer, and shared a chat he had with Dr. Oz. Trebek said the message that he can put out there for sufferers and for caretakers is that there is hope.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldCLppwgXRU
See a complete list of winners of 2019 Daytime Emmys on TVLINE
I watched a clip online in which an ET interviewer asked Alex “how would you like to be remembered?” I don’t know…maybe it’s just me, but I found the question in bad taste.
Idk if it was in bad taste, Cece. It’s this one, right? (She asks him that at the end). I mean, he was talking very openly about how most people don’t get to know how much everyone loves them when they are still alive and how he feels lucky because of it. He brought that up on GMA, too. I didn’t see him bring up the Holy Water before though. (I was just telling my son-in-law about Lourdes the other day!)
She could have left it out, though.
Yes, that’s the one. I watched it again and, yeah, it hit me the same way. Like, a question for someone who is exiting, you know, “you’re leaving, what would you like your legacy to be? A question we would ask a president on his last weeks. 🙂
Oh, and the holy water bit was kinda funny.
I do see your point. It has a totally different connotation when you are talking to someone who is sick.
I’ve been asked what I want on my headstone but I wasn’t sick.
What you want on your headstone, lol. It reminds me of an episode of Everybody loves Raymond, when Ray’s mother found an eulogy he had written for his father, and she demanded one for herself.
lol, Cece. Well, after I made some tasteless joke that didn’t go over well at all, I said that I want it to say “eternal rest” because that’s pretty much how I think of death.