aired last night. host alex treb bek shared how cindy dreamed of competing on the show. for the past six jeopardy programs, you folks have been getting to know the talented champion cindy stowell. appear on our show was the fulfillment a lifelong ambition for that lady. what you did not know is when we taped these programs fr s with few weeks ago, she was suffering is from stage 4 cancer. sadly on december 5th, cindy passed away. from all of us here at jeopardy, our sincere condolences to her family and her friends. that was alex trebek. cindy, she didn t tell people about her illness. no, it s really inspiring her. she had a fever, was on pain pills during those tapings. she didn t tell any of her competitors, only a handful of producers and jeopardy host alex