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Legendary Television Host Regis Philbin Dead astatine 88
Kathie Lee Gifford isn't funny successful rewriting her daytime TV history.
Last month, Kelly Ripa chose to look backmost connected her analyzable narration with Regis Philbin in her idiosyncratic publication titled Live Wire: Long-Winded Short Stories. The Live! co-host's candor rapidly sparked articles and discussions that Kathie Lee doesn't privation to beryllium portion of.
"I was precise atrocious to spot the headlines," she told Fox 5 New York's Rosanna Scotto on Oct. 10. "I was successful Israel and I saw that and I went, ‘Oh, I anticipation this isn't true.' I conscionable anticipation it isn't, due to the fact that what's the point? I don't get it."
Kathie Lee continued, "I'm not gonna work the book. I haven't work it. I don't adjacent cognize if it's retired yet. I conscionable cognize what Regis was to me. He was, for 15 years, the champion spouse a idiosyncratic could ever, ever person professionally but helium was my friend."
From 1988-2000, millions of viewers started their mornings watching Live! With Regis and Kathie Lee. When Kelly took implicit successful 2011, Kathie Lee said her narration with the TV icon continued distant from immoderate cameras.
"We were beloved friends and aft I near the show, for the adjacent 20 years, we became amended friends," she said. "I saw him 2 weeks earlier helium died and the infinitesimal I recovered retired helium had passed, I got successful my car and drove to their house."
Regis passed away from earthy causes successful July 2020. He was 88. When Kathie Lee reunited with Regis' woman Joy Philbin aft his death, she received a peculiar message.
"[She] said, ‘Kathie, I conscionable privation you to cognize erstwhile we saw you for luncheon 2 weeks agone astatine your house, that's the past clip I heard Regis laugh,'" Kathie Lee recalled. "We ever picked up close wherever we near off. We were the unusual couple. We were perfectly cleanable unneurotic for television. We ne'er had an argument, an unkind connection successful 15 years truthful that was my reality."
The talk-show host, who went connected to enactment astatine Today betwixt 2008-2019, said that successful each the years she knew Regis, "I ne'er saw him unkind to anyone."
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"I'm not going to accidental thing disfigured astir anybody," Kathie Lee added. "I ne'er person and I'm not going to commencement now. My world is thing wholly antithetic from that."
When discussing her caller book, Kelly told People last period that discussing Regis was "the hardest section to write."
"There were bully and atrocious days," she said of co-hosting Live! With Regis and Kelly from 2001 to 2011. "I don't privation to consciousness similar I'm slamming anyone oregon that I'm being disrespectful. But I besides privation radical to cognize it was not a cakewalk."
"The biggest misconception is that it each came easily," Kelly continued. "People deliberation I conscionable showed up 1 time and was handed a occupation and I lived happily ever aft and present everything's perfect. But it ne'er is that way."
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