Television personality Regis Philbin dies at 88: reports
Philbin died of natural causes Friday night, just over a month before his 89th birthday, according to a statement from his family provided by manager Lewis Kay.
After hustling into an entertainment career by parking cars at a Los Angeles TV station, Philbin logged more than 15,000 hours on the air, earning him recognition in the Guinness Book of World Records for the most broadcast hours logged by a TV personality, a record previously held by Hugh Downs.He was host of the prime-time game show, “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire,” briefly television's most popular show at the turn of the century.
Yet Philbin was a favourite of a younger generation's ironic icon, David Letterman. When Letterman announced that he had to undergo heart surgery, it was on the air to Philbin, who was also there for Letterman's first day back after his recovery. Philbin got far more on-air experience in San Diego in the early 1960s, when KOGO-TV began producing “The Regis Philbin Show” for a national audience. The program of music and celebrity interviews was taped two weeks before each airing. It was cancelled after four months.
“No arguments, no harsh words in all this time,” Philbin told a theatre audience in 2000. “Well, there was the time I didn't talk to her for two weeks. Didn't want to interrupt her.”
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