Regis Philbin intends to take some time off from Live with Regis and Kelly to undergo hip-replacement surgery.
ABC revives Millionaire for 10th anniversary
"I'm allowed to announce I'm going into hip surgery. I'm going to have my ...
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Call your lifelines: ABC wants to make more Millionaires.
The Alphabet network will bring back host Regis Philbin for an 11-night primetime run of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire to celebrate the game show's 10th anniversary this summer. The show will premiere Aug. 9 and run through Aug. 23.
The quiz show was an instant success when it debuted in August 1999 and popularized the phrase, "Is that your final answer?" Ratings began to fall, and the primetime series was cancelled in 2002. Today host Meredith Vieira then began emceeing a syndicated daytime version of the show, which is still airing.
Aside from the anniversary...
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Television personality Regis Philbin will guest-star on How I Met Your Mother this fall. Philbin will play himself in an episode, scheduled to air Sept. 29, which concerns Marshall's search for the restaurant in which he had his first New York burger. (For me, it was Corner Bistro in the spring of 1998. Ah! Google it. Out-of-this-world delicious!) The new season of Mother premieres on Monday, Sept. 22 (CBS, 8:30 pm/ET). — Mickey O'Connor
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Talk-show host, soap alum, übermom, sassy spouse... and Ugly guest? Kelly Ripa's résumé just got one line longer.On Ugly Betty's Sept. 25 season opener, Ripa and Live cohost Regis Philbin will be grilling "Mode" editors Wilhelmina (Vanessa Williams) and Alexis (Rebecca Romijn) when they appear on their daytime talker.Not to be outdone, Ripa is beating her hunky hubby, Mark Consuelos, to the punch — as we reported last week, he'll be appearing on the new season's third episode. But will there be some kind of tie-in between Ripa and Consuelos' Ugly stints? That remains a mystery.Tell us — would you like to see the real-life spouses together on Ugly Betty? And if so, playing whom? — Nina Hämmerling Smith
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Morning show co-host Kelly Ripa may be know for her super-fit bod, but turns out her calves of steel were no match for the other runners at the Regis and Kelly High Heel-a-thon that took place Wednesday in Central Park. One hundred plus women (and a few brave men) strapped on their most comfy pumps (now there's an oxymoron) and sprinted a 150-yard dash in them. The Reege didn't compete, but that must have been because he wanted to let someone else win – what a guy!
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