How’s this for a courtsideChristmas?
LongtimeJeopardy!hostAlex Trebekattended the Los Angeles Lakers game on Wednesday night with his wife of 29 years,Jean Currivan Trebek.
Fans were delighted to see Trebek, whoannounced his diagnosis with stage 4 pancreatic cancerin March, looking happy and healthy at the event.
“Alex Trebek at the Laker game,” tweeted one. “Cancer patient and all. Still hosting Jeopardy. Still going to Laker games. Amazing man. Hoping for a long, healthy remainder of life for him.”
“Great to see Alex Trebek at the Lakers vs Clippers game!” tweeted another. “A true icon. Thinking of you constantly sir, and sending all the positive vibes for your health.”
Since announcing his diagnosis, Trebek, 79, has often expressed how much he’s appreciated the ongoing outpouring of love and well wishes from fans around the world. In May,he told PEOPLEthat he had been responding extremely well to his first round of chemotherapy.
“I’ve got a couple million people out there who have expressed their good thoughts, their positive energy directed towards me and their prayers,” he said. “I told the doctors, this has to be more than just the chemo, and they agree it could very well be an important part of this.”
But in September, after a reversal of the initially positive results, Trebek announced that he was once againundergoing chemotherapy.
“I was doing so well and my numbers went down to the equivalent of a normal human being who does not have pancreatic cancer, so we were all very optimistic,” he said onGood Morning America. “They said, ‘Good, we’re going to stop chemo, we’ll start you on immunotherapy,’ and I lost about 12 lbs. in a week and my numbers went sky-high, much higher than they were when I was first diagnosed.”
Alex Trebek.Frederick M. Brown/Getty
While he toldGMAat the time that he hoped to continue hostingJeopardy!for as long as he could, he said in October that there may be a point in the not-too-distant future when he has to step away from the beloved game show.
Regardless, Trebek isn’t letting his diagnosis stop him from checking items off of his bucket list. Earlier this month, he enlistedDon McLeanto perform athis annual Christmas party, as seen in PEOPLE’s exclusive photos from the night.
“I sent an email to Don’s people on his website and here we are tonight,” Trebek told the crowd at the party. “I can officially take this off of my bucket list. This was a real treat for me.”
“I had never met Alex and normally I just come in and do my thing,” said McLean, 74. “When I arrived, Alex handed me a piece of paper with a list of songs he wanted me to perform and in the order he wanted them performed in. Then when I looked next to each song, he had timed them out.”
source: people.com
