Elaine Trebek Kares

Elaine Trebek Kares (née Howard, formerly Callei) is an American businesswoman and former broadcaster.

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.

[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.