Elaine Trebek Kares

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.

Elaine Trebek Kares
Born
Elaine Howard

Columbus, Ohio, U.S.
Alma materOhio State University
Occupation(s)Broadcaster, businesswoman
Spouses
  • Louis Callei
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    (m. 1963; div. 1974)​
  • ​
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    (m. 1974; div. 1981)​
  • Peter Kares
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    (m. 2001)​
ChildrenNicky Trebek[1]
Nicky Trebeck in 2005

Biography

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]

References
  1. McBride, Jessica (2020-11-08). "Nicky Trebek: Alex Trebek's Loving Relationship With Adopted Daughter". Heavy.com. Retrieved 2020-12-23.
  2. "Anti-feminists ask to be loved, not liberated". Toronto Star, May 2, 1970.
  3. Kathryn Leigh Scott, The Bunny Years. Simon & Schuster, 2011. ISBN 9781451663280.
  4. "CTV's human journey, How We Adapt, a new high mark". The Globe and Mail, January 27, 1973.
  5. "CTV presents a new face to wake up to". The Globe and Mail, March 14, 1987.
  6. "CBC man in Saigon riding on his luck". Toronto Star, February 1, 1973.
  7. "Callei leaves CTV at end of next week". Toronto Star, July 12, 1973.
  8. Ed Gould, Entertaining Canadians: Canada's international stars, 1900-1988. Cappis Press, 1988. ISBN 9780919763180.
  9. David Baber, Television Game Show Hosts: Biographies of 32 Stars. McFarland & Company, 2008. ISBN 9780786429264.
  10. Seelye, Katharine Q. (November 8, 2020). "Alex Trebek, Longtime Host of 'Jeopardy!,' Dies at 80". The New York Times. Archived from the original on November 8, 2020. Retrieved November 11, 2020.
  11. "Get to Know Late TV Host Alex Trebek's First Wife, Elaine Trebek Kares". Closer Weekly. 2020-11-09. Retrieved 2020-12-23.
  12. "Arcade Scents New Opportunity". Advertising Age, June 26, 1995. (subscription required)
  13. "Magazines Now Come With Music". Sun-Sentinel, June 17, 2003.
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