OneJeopardy!contestant’s act of kindness during Monday night’s show nearly brought hostAlex Trebekto tears.
During the Final Jeopardy round, contestant Dhruv Gaur used his opportunity to answer the clue to spread some love for the longtime game show host.
“Did you come up with the right one? No?” Trebek, 79, asked Gaur as his answer to the final clue appeared on the screen.
“What is we love you Alex,” Trebek read aloud. “That’s very kind, thank you.”
Trebek saw that Gaur gave up nearly all of his remaining $2,000 on the incorrect answer.
“Cost you $1,995. You’re left with five bucks,” Trebek said, seemingly holding back tears of gratitude for the kind words.
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Gaur later addressed his decision on Twitter, explaining Trebek had just shared with the contestants he had reentered treatment.
“We were all hurting for him so badly,” Gaur wrote.
“When Final Jeopardy came up, I could’ve tried to puzzle it together, but really, just kept thinking about Alex, and thought he should know.”
Gaur’s sweet message comes as Trebek continues to battle pancreatic cancer.
Although Trebek initiallyfinished his treatmentin August, he revealed onGood Morning Americain September 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,” Trebek said at the time. “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.”
While he toldGMAthat he hopes to continue hostingJeopardy!for as long as he can, 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.
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Earlier this month, anotherJeopardy!contestantdonated $10,000 to cancer researchin honor of Trebek.
Avi Gupta, the 18-year-old Columbia University freshman who took home $100,000 on the show this summer, announced on Twitter that he would be giving aportion of his winningsto the Knight Cancer Institute.
November is also Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month, and Gupta said his goal “is to support research into pancreatic cancer awareness and early detection.”
source: people.com
