Charles Sykes/AP Regis Philbin and Kelly Ripa appear on Regis' farewell episode of "Live! “You wait a lifetime for something like that and sometimes it never happens,” Philbin told the AP in 1999. 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. “No arguments, no harsh words in all this time,” Philbin told a theatre audience in 2000. Even though the series Regis Philbin’s Health Styles, on Lifetime in the 1980s, was part of his lengthy resume, Philbin had health issues.

Source: Stuff July 25, 2020 19:52 UTC