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'Jeopardy!' contestant Cindy Stowell dies of cancer week before episode airs

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A “Jeopardy!” episode airing next week has taken an emotional turn after one of its contestants, Cindy Stowell, died of cancer at the age of 41 on Monday.

Stowell, a science-content developer from Austin, Texas, taped the quiz show back in August, and the episode is set to premiere on Dec. 13, a “Jeopardy!” spokesperson confirmed. This marks the first posthumous airing of a contestant’s appearance.

Her death and forthcoming “Jeopardy!” appearance was first announced on Twitter by her longtime boyfriend Jason Hess, who posted that “She was fighting a high-grade fever (which turned out to be a blood infection) and was on painkillers while taping.” Stowell competed with the goal of donating her prize winnings to cancer-related organizations.

Only Trebek and a select group of staffers knew that she was sick. Stowell, who had a Ph.D. in chemical engineering, first passed the online audition test in early 2016, and received an invitation to an in-person audition in Oklahoma City this past summer. She was able to tape three weeks after qualifying, on Aug. 31, after she informed a show producer that she had recently been told by her doctor that she had about six months to live.
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https://nypost.com/2016/12/07/jeopardy-contestant-dies-of-cancer-week-before-episode-airs/
 
She's still there!

And she has qualified for the Tournament of Champions as a 5-time champion. Has any other contestant who did that ever not been able to appear in the tournament?

I would have suspected something was wrong with her even without reading this, with her short hair and her weak voice. But she sure is determined, and quite smart as well.
 
A newspaper headline yesterday said she was gone. I didn't stay around to see who won Wednesday but I should have. And yesterday someone new was in her place. Nearly $104,000, and I forget whether that was five days or six.
 
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