娱乐英语新闻:"Jeopardy!" host snapps Achilles tendon as chasing "burglar"

BEIJING, July 29 (Xinhuanet) --"Jeopardy!" host Alex Trebek snapped his Achilles tendon as chasing after a woman who was said to have entered his hotel room, according to media reports Friday.

Alex Trebek stayed with his wife, Jean, at a San Francisco hotel Thursday. At 2:30 in the morning, he found someone was inside his room and ran after her, but snapped his Achilles tendon.

Trebek is about to have surgery Friday and expected to be in a cast for six weeks. And now, he has to walk on crutches.

“I woke up and saw a figure in our hotel bedroom and I thought I was dreaming," Trebek said. "A moment later, I got up and saw that the door was being held open by a wad of tissue. I opened the door and saw a woman walking away, and I realized immediately that someone had been in the room.”

Then Trebek caught up with her running down the hall.

“She came out of the little room where the ice machine is and I said, 'What were you doing in our room?'" Trebek said. "She said, 'I wasn't in your room!' I said,'What are you doing up here?' She said, 'I was visiting friends.' I said, 'No, you weren't. Let's see what security has to say about that.'”

“As I reached for the phone to call security, she bolted. She ran down the hall. I chased her. And I didn't get more than 25 feet before my right Achilles tendon ruptured and I crashed to the ground.”

But the 56-year-old Lucinda Moyers pleaded not guilty. She said: “I haven't done nothing. I haven't gone in his room or nothing. Just like I said that night, 'I wasn't in your room.' And I stick by that. I wasn't in his room.'”

Moyer was arrested on suspicion of felony burglary and possession of stolen property. On Thursday, she was released on 625,000 dollar bail and was ordered to stay at least 150 feet away from the Trebeks.

Alex Trebek has been the host of the game show Jeopardy since 1984.