Regis Philbin Is Calling It Quits On “Live with Regis & Kelly.”



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I know lot of yall really don’t give a damn but I still have to show some respect for one of my first favorite TV shows. After 28 years and three different co-hosts, Regis Philbin says this will be his last season on his morning talk show – the program currently known as Live! with Regis and Kelly.

“It’s been a long time, it’s been 28 years since I’ve been here. And it was the biggest thrill of my life,” Philbin, who will turn 80 in August, said on the program Tuesday morning.

He added jokingly: “Everything must come to an end for certain people on camera, especially certain old people.”

Philbin’s program began in 1983 as The Morning Show, a local New York City broadcast which he co-hosted with Cyndy Garvey. Kathie Lee Gifford replaced Garvey in 1985, and the show, renamed Live! with Regis and Kathie Lee, went national in 1988.

Gifford left in 2000, and the show became Live with Regis for a season. It was renamed in 2001, when current co-host Kelly Ripa joined full-time.

“I think I can only speak for America, and all of us here, when I say it has been a pleasure and a privilege and a dream come true [working with you],” Ripa told Philbin on Tuesday. “And I wish I could do something to change your mind.”




3 responses to “Regis Philbin Is Calling It Quits On “Live with Regis & Kelly.””

  1. alf says:

    If it’s true that Kathy Lee got on the viewers nerves by talking too much about her family, Kelly has done the same thing. She is smart enough to know that when Regis leaves, there is a possibility that the show’s popularity might leave with him. Regis did not owe her an explanation before making it known to the public that he was leaving. I think her so called regets to see him leave are phony. She probably wanted to give an early suggestion regarding his replacement. As you can tell, I am not a Kelly fan.

  2. Liz says:

    Alf, I couldn’t agree more. It didn’t take Kelly long to start believing her own PR. She quickly became a self-centered, overpaid egoist who couldn’t stop looking at herself in the studio monitors and dragged the simplest of stories on and on just so she could have center stage. Like Kathie Lee, she also found a forum to brag ad nauseam about her husband. (Heaven only knows why.) I gag every time she refers to it as “my show”, something even class act Regis rarely (if ever) does, though he certainly is entitled to do so since it is, after all, HIS show! If the program does well after he leaves, I will know that the world has officially hit rock bottom. What I will miss the most are the shows when Joy co-hosts. That couple offered some of the funniest host chats imaginable!

  3. Liz says:

    P. S. Favorite moment of the show EVER was when Priscilla Presley slammed Kelly. THAT is the beauty of live TV!!

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