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What? Alex Trebek threatened to quit Jeopardy!?
The latest episode in the Sony email hack reveals that Alex Trebek threatened to quit his iconic role as host of Jeopardy. Radar Online reports that an angry stage mom whose daughter flamed out in the kids’ tournament wrote a scathing email to the show’s producers complaining about Trebek’s insensitivity. When the producers asked him to reshoot the segment, Trebek threatened to quit.
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