Television icon Phil Donahue died Sunday at age 88. NBC’s Joe Fryer joins TODAY to look back at his life and legendary career.
Oprah Winfrey is remembering her peer and friend, longtime TV host Phil Donahue, who died Aug. 18. In an Instagram post Aug. 19, Winfrey shared a black-and-white image of herself smiling with Donahue, along with a sweet caption about his impact on her and the talk show world. “There wouldn’t have been an Oprah Show without Phil Donahue being the first to prove that daytime talk and women watching should be taken seriously,” she wrote. “He was a pioneer. I’m glad I got to thank him for it.
Winfrey once described Donahue as 'the first to acknowledge that women are interested in more than mascara tips and cake recipes—that we’re intelligent, we’re concerned about the world around us, and we want the best possible lives for ourselves.' She famously hosted her talk show, 'The Oprah Winfrey Show,' for 25 years, beginning in the 1980s. She also interviewed Donahue for O, The Oprah Magazine in September 2002.
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