Elaine Trebek Kares | |
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Born | Elaine Howard |
Alma mater | Ohio State University |
Occupation(s) | Broadcaster, businesswoman |
Spouses |
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Children | Nicky Trebek [1] |
Elaine Trebek Kares ( née Howard, formerly Callei) is an American businesswoman and former broadcaster. She was a Playboy Bunny in the 1960s and a television broadcaster on the program Call Callei in the 1970s.
Originally from Columbus, Ohio, and a journalism graduate of the Ohio State University, [2] she was a Playboy Bunny in the 1960s under the pseudonym "Teddy Howard". [3] With her first husband, Louis Callei, she later moved to Toronto, Ontario, Canada, where she ran her own promotion and party planning business [2] before joining CHCH-TV in Hamilton as host of a daily talk show, Call Callei. The show was noted particularly for Callei's boundary-pushing interest in sexual topics; her 1972 interview with Xaviera Hollander led to a reprimand from the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission in early 1973. [4]
She left CHCH to take over as cohost of CTV's Canada AM in February 1973, [5] after Carole Taylor left the program to join W5; [6] however, she lasted only a few months before leaving the program by mutual agreement that she was not a good fit for a morning show, and was succeeded by Helen Hutchinson. [7]
She married Alex Trebek in 1974, [8] returning to the United States as he pursued career opportunities there. They divorced amicably in 1981. [9] [10] She had no children with Trebek, [10] although he became adoptive father to her daughter from her previous marriage. [11]
She later remarried to film producer Peter Kares, and launched her own businesses, including Scent Seal, which created a new system for packaging perfume and fragrance samples, [12] and Mag-a-Music, an early foray into multimedia music distribution. [13]
Elaine Trebek Kares | |
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Born | Elaine Howard |
Alma mater | Ohio State University |
Occupation(s) | Broadcaster, businesswoman |
Spouses |
|
Children | Nicky Trebek [1] |
Elaine Trebek Kares ( née Howard, formerly Callei) is an American businesswoman and former broadcaster. She was a Playboy Bunny in the 1960s and a television broadcaster on the program Call Callei in the 1970s.
Originally from Columbus, Ohio, and a journalism graduate of the Ohio State University, [2] she was a Playboy Bunny in the 1960s under the pseudonym "Teddy Howard". [3] With her first husband, Louis Callei, she later moved to Toronto, Ontario, Canada, where she ran her own promotion and party planning business [2] before joining CHCH-TV in Hamilton as host of a daily talk show, Call Callei. The show was noted particularly for Callei's boundary-pushing interest in sexual topics; her 1972 interview with Xaviera Hollander led to a reprimand from the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission in early 1973. [4]
She left CHCH to take over as cohost of CTV's Canada AM in February 1973, [5] after Carole Taylor left the program to join W5; [6] however, she lasted only a few months before leaving the program by mutual agreement that she was not a good fit for a morning show, and was succeeded by Helen Hutchinson. [7]
She married Alex Trebek in 1974, [8] returning to the United States as he pursued career opportunities there. They divorced amicably in 1981. [9] [10] She had no children with Trebek, [10] although he became adoptive father to her daughter from her previous marriage. [11]
She later remarried to film producer Peter Kares, and launched her own businesses, including Scent Seal, which created a new system for packaging perfume and fragrance samples, [12] and Mag-a-Music, an early foray into multimedia music distribution. [13]