Elaine Trebek Kares

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, she was a Playboy Bunny in the 1960s under the pseudonym "Teddy Howard". With her first husband, Louis Callei, she later moved to Toronto, Ontario, Canada, where she ran her own promotion and party planning business

She left CHCH to take over as cohost of CTV's Canada AM in February 1973, after Carole Taylor left the program to join W5; 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.

She married Alex Trebek in 1974, returning to the United States as he pursued career opportunities there. They divorced amicably in 1981. She had no children with Trebek,

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, and Mag-a-Music, an early foray into multimedia music distribution.