WASHINGTON - Regis Philbin, an award-winning fixture of American talk show culture, has died at the age of 88, media reports said Saturday.
Philbin, a playful and self-deprecating New Yorker with a thick Bronx accent, died Friday of natural causes, People magazine reported, quoting a statement from the family.
Working with Kathie Lee Gifford and later with another co-host, Philbin appeared on the show for 23 years. Philbin also hosted the wildly popular "Who Wants to be a Millionaire" game show, which ran from 1999 to 2002.And he held the Guinness record for number of hours spent on television in America -- about 17,000, according to The New York Times.
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