The Jeopardy! host, 73, was born and raised in northern Ontario, but moved to the U.S. to pursue his career as a TV personality. Despite almost 30 years of hosting Jeopardy and a Bob Hope Entertainment Award to his name, Trebek famously joked about leaving it all behind to go run for office in Canada in the wake of the Toronto mayor’s crack scandal . “Maybe municipal politics, you know. … It might be kind of fun to come back to Toronto after having left Jeopardy! and run for an office here,” he said. “If there’s one available. Wink wink.”