Elaine Trebek Kares ( Howard, formerly Callei) is an American businesswoman and former broadcaster. She was a Playboy Bunny in the 1960s and a television broadcaster on the program Call Callei in the 1970s.
Biography Originally from Columbus, Ohio, and a journalism graduate of the Ohio State University,"Anti-feminists ask to be loved, not liberated". Toronto Star, May 2, 1970. she was a Playboy Bunny in the 1960s under the pseudonym "Teddy Howard".Kathryn Leigh Scott, The Bunny Years. Simon & Schuster, 2011. . With her first husband, Louis Callei, she later moved to Toronto, Ontario, Canada, where she ran her own promotion and party planning business before joining CHCH-TV in Hamilton as host of a daily talk show, Call Callei. 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."CTV's human journey, How We Adapt, a new high mark". The Globe and Mail, January 27, 1973.
She left CHCH to take over as cohost of CTV's Canada AM in February 1973,"CTV presents a new face to wake up to". The Globe and Mail, March 14, 1987. after Carole Taylor left the program to join W5;"CBC man in Saigon riding on his luck". Toronto Star, February 1, 1973. 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."Callei leaves CTV at end of next week". Toronto Star, July 12, 1973.
She married Alex Trebek in 1974,Ed Gould, Entertaining Canadians: Canada's international stars, 1900-1988. Cappis Press, 1988. . returning to the United States as he pursued career opportunities there. They divorced amicably in 1981.David Baber, Television Game Show Hosts: Biographies of 32 Stars. McFarland & Company, 2008. . She had no children with Trebek, although he became adoptive father to her daughter from her previous marriage.
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,"Arcade Scents New Opportunity". Advertising Age, June 26, 1995. and Mag-a-Music, an early foray into multimedia music distribution."Magazines Now Come With Music". Sun-Sentinel, June 17, 2003.
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Elaine Trebek Kares at Gallery GO (Archived copy)