“Jeopardy!” host Alex Trebek fulfilled his wish of spending his final hours with his longtime wife on a swing “watching the horizon” before he succumbed to his battle with cancer, a show producer said Monday.
“Even in his book, he described that he wanted his final day to be sitting on his swing next to his wife, Jean, and kind of watching the horizon and he got to do that,” executive producer Mike Richards told the “Today” show.
“He was coherent, he wasn’t in pain and the fact that he had a nice, final day makes all of us in the ‘Jeopardy!’ family feel much better.”
The 80-year-old game show host died of stage four pancreatic Sunday morning surrounded by his friends and family at his home in Los Angeles.
Trebek is survived by his wife of 30 years, Jean Currivan, and their two children, Emily and Matthew.
His death came more than a year and a half after he revealed he had been diagnosed with the aggressive disease, which has the highest mortality rate of all cancers.
Throughout his ordeal, he continued to film new episodes of the game show, filming his last episode on Oct. 29.
“He was incredibly hard-working. He cared about the show. He cared about the importance of the show that it helped people want to be smarter. He made that cool — he made wanting to be smart cool,” Richards said.
“The greatest thing about him was how much he loved his family. Of all the things he did and all the things he accomplished, the greatest thing to him was his family and his love of his life.”
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