Longtime "Jeopardy" host Alex Trebek had surgery for blood clots on the brain, but assured fans he'd be back reading clues to contestants soon.
Trebek appeared in a video on the "Jeopardy" Facebook page Thursday to announce that he'd had the surgery during the show's holiday break.
Wearing a "Jeopardy" baseball cap and using the same tone he employs to explain difficult subjects on the show, Trebek says "I had a slight medical problem, subdural hematoma, blood
clots on the brain caused by a fall I endured about two months ago."
"Surgery was performed," he continues, "after two days in the hospital I came home and started recovery. The prognosis is excellent, and I expect to be back in the studio taping more 'Jeopardy' programs very, very soon."
He gave no specific timetable for when he might return.
The 77-year-old Canadian has become an American institution in the decades since he started hosting ``Jeopardy'' in 1984, beloved for the way he calmly delivers tough trivia to the cognoscenti that make up the show's contestants.