Alex Trebek, the longtime host of game show Jeopardy! is recovering well after the mild heart attack he suffered Monday and will return as scheduled to the studio in January, it has been announced.

The 67-year-old game show host was hospitalized late Monday night at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles after suffering a mild heart attack, a spokesman for the game show said Tuesday.

“Thankfully it was a minor heart attack,” show spokesman Jeff Ritter said, without providing further details.

A message posted on the official Jeopardy! website says Trebek is “resting comfortably” and will return in due time for the next batch of the show’s tapings.

“Alex Trebek, host of Jeopardy!, has had a minor heart attack. He is resting comfortably in a Los Angeles hospital, and he will be back in the studio for the next scheduled tapings in January,” the post reads.

Ritter would only say that the veteran game show host was expected to remain in the hospital for another two days for tests and observation.

Trebek, a native of Ontario, Canada, has been hosting the popular game show Jeopardy! for more than two decades, since 1984. He obtained a philosophy degree from the University of Ottawa then embarked on a television career, as a TV and radio reporter for the Canadian Broadcasting Company.

He moved to the United States and became a U. S. citizen in 1998.

He has been nominated numerous times for daytime Emmy Awards for game show host and has won twice. He also has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Trebek has hosted other shows besides Jeopardy!, such as “The Wizard of Odds,” at the beginning of his career and “Pitfall,” “Battlestars,” “The $128,000 Question,” “Double Dare,” “High Rollers,” “Strategy” and “Reach for the Top.”

Trebek, a father of two, also hosts the annual National Geography Bee in the U.S. and Canada.