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      • Regis Philbin died at 88 on Friday from a heart attack caused by heart disease and high blood pressure the medical examiner's office said.
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  2. Jul 29, 2020 · Regis Philbin‘s cause of death has been confirmed as a “myocardial infarction due to coronary artery disease,” according to the Chief Medical Examiner’s Office in Farmington, Connecticut ...

  3. Jul 27, 2020 · Iconic television personality Regis Philbin's cause of death has been revealed. In a statement to Fox News on Monday, the Chief Medical Examiner Office in Connecticut said: "He died of heart...

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  4. Jul 30, 2020 · On Wednesday (July 29), a spokesperson for the Chief Medical Examiner’s Office in Farmington, Connecticut told Us Weekly that the beloved TV icon died from a myocardial infarction at 88 due to coronary artery disease.

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    Philbin — known to fans as "Reeg" — was a fixture on various local and national shows for a half century with co-hosts including Kathie Lee Gifford and Kelly Ripa, winning millions of fans as well as honours as the top U.S. talk and game show host. "I'm not gonna say it always works out brilliantly, but somehow we connect more often than we don't,"...

    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. ABC aired the family friendly program as often as five times a week. It generated around $1 billion US in revenue in its first two years and helped make Philbin himself a millionaire many times over. He signed a...

    In 1967, Philbin was hired as the announcer and sidekick to comic Joey Bishop on his network show. When he heard that he was going to be fired because of poor ratings, Philbin tearfully announced he was leaving on July 12, 1968, walking off during a live broadcast. He returned three days later after letters of support poured in. He and Bishop had b...

  5. Jul 25, 2020 · Regis Philbin, a legendary television host best known for the morning show, “Live! with Regis and Kathie Lee,” and the widely popular game show, “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire,” died Friday...

  6. Jul 25, 2020 · He suffered a heart attack in 2007 and had to miss several weeks of the show to recover from heart surgery. He told " CBS This Morning" in 2012 that while he was sleeping later in the...

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