He Earned National Attention for His Facial Hair
After thirty mustachioed years, Trebek stunned viewers by appearing clean-shaven during Jeopardy!'s 18th season in 2001. During the April Fools edition of the show, Trebek donned a fake handlebar mustache for a laugh—but he actually grew it back several years later in 2014. Then, he shaved it off again.
By 2018, Trebek's frequent facial hair adjustments had made national media headlines. In the first episode of Jeopardy from that year, he was sporting a full beard; the next, a goatee; by the third episode, Trebek had reduced it back to a mustache. What's next? Muttonchops?
"And it got so much press, I couldn’t believe it," Trebek said of the debacle. "The wars with Iraq or whatever at that time and people are all in a stew over my mustache. I have one response: Get a life.”
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