The heart attack that struck Alex Trebek several months back certainly hasn't changed his life.

Says the four-time Emmy winner, who's gearing up to start the 25th year of "Jeopardy!," "I drink Diet Pepsi and eat a Snickers for breakfast every day — that'll fire you up. I eat well at dinner, but almost never eat lunch. I stopped taking my medicine, though I might start it up again just so the doctor doesn't get ticked off. I should exercise, but I don't and ...

"My motto is 'If I die I die,' though I don't like to say that too often because it upsets my wife."

Trebek, who'll be hosting the "Jeopardy! College Championship" beamed from the University of Wisconsin at Madison from May 5-16, is looking forward to taking his wife and teenage son and daughter for a tour of his native Canada during the show's hiatus this summer. While "Jeopardy!" is in production, he puts in 11-hour days, two days a week, sitting in on staff meetings and studying questions he'll be asking contestants during taping of the show.

Asked how he's feeling, the 68-year-old Trebek responds, "OK. Fine. Not bad for an old Canadian dude."

THE VIDEOLAND VIEW: With "Ugly Betty" returning to the ABC lineup tonight (4/24), costar Ana Ortiz notes that the troupe will be wrapping up production on this strange, strike-interrupted season after shooting one more episode. "We had such a short amount of time to do the last five episodes, we've literally been shooting two at a time," she reports. "They're going to be so good, I can't tell you. Larry King is on one, which is such a hoot."

The "Ugly Betty" sister tells us she won't be slowing down. "I'm going to Vancouver the first week of May to shoot a TV movie, a true story, with Judy Reyes, who's on 'Scrubs.' It's called 'Little Girl Lost,' and I play a little bit of a psychotic, not the perfect mother by any means. It should be fun to have such a different character."

Ana is also taking to heart her role as the celebrity face of the Escape Your Stress campaign touting Johnson & Johnson's Melt Away Stress product line. "They actually sent a whole bunch of the stuff to the set of 'Ugly Betty,' and the whole cast is completely addicted."

AN EVENT TO REMEMBER: Gonzo comic Judy Tenuta — aka The Love Goddess — says she was as shocked as anyone else to be invited to conduct the Junior Philharmonic Orchestra of California at the 71st Anniversary Concert Spectacular on May 4, 3:30 p.m.

at the Shrine Auditorium. "They called and said, 'We need The Love Goddess to come on and twirl our baton,'" quips Tenuta. "Helloooo, are they totally losing it? Did they think my last name was Bernstein or something? No, it was great. Every year they have celebrities do it, and this year it's going to be Stacy Keach, Timothy Bottoms and myself. The first half of the show we're doing popular songs like Tchaikovsky and something from 'West Side Story,' but then the other half is the battle of the batons between me, Stacy and Timothy." She adds tickets are free to the event. For more info, go to www.jrphil.org.

Meanwhile, Tenuta fans will be glad to hear she's just releasing a compilation CD. "It's called 'Buy This Again, Pigs,'" she says. "When I did my very first album 'Buy This, Pigs' in 1987, they didn't have CD … Oh, my god, I'm making myself sound like Bea Arthur or something — 'And my first album came out when Nixon was getting a lobotomy … ' intones Tenuta in a perfect Bea Arthur impression. "Anyway, people were always asking, 'Where can I get the CD?,' so I decided to take my favorite bits from that album." Check out www.judytenuta.com

BARE FACTS: Adhir Kalyan, who plays the Pakistani Muslim exchange student in a small Wisconsin town on The CW's "Aliens in America," goes for something completely different in the currently shooting feature comedy "Fired Up" He lets us know, "I'm playing a gay male cheerleader by the name of Brewster." Two of the writers from "Aliens in America" are behind "Fired Up" — hence the engaging Kalyan's involvement. "It's kind of 'Wedding Crashers' meets 'Bring It On,'" he says. He also says, "You don't actually see Brewster cheering, which is disappointing to me, but probably for the best for the audience. But you do see him nude."

The South Africa-born actor of Indian extraction says that naked scene has already been shot. Did it make him uncomfortable? "No, it was very liberating. I do see the appeal."

In fact, it's not the first time he's appeared sans clothing on camera. His "Aliens in America" character, Raja, walked through a locker room in the buff. "My managers and agents keep getting me roles where I'm nude," he says. "You'd think I would tell them to stop doing that, wouldn't you, but I haven't yet." The series returns Sunday (4/27).

With reports by Stephanie DuBois and Emily Feimster.

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