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 Post subject: RIP Phil Donahue (88)
PostPosted: Mon Aug 19, 2024 11:51 am 
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Phil Donahue, whose influential TV talk show aired for nearly 30 years, has died at age 88.

Donahue died Sunday night of an undisclosed illness, according to a family statement provided to ABC News by a representative for Donahue's wife of 44 years, Marlo Thomas.

Before Oprah, there was Phil.


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PostPosted: Mon Aug 19, 2024 11:54 am 
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I watched a lot of Phil back in the day, always interesting. He was the man for awhile on daytime talk tv. RIP.

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PostPosted: Mon Aug 19, 2024 12:55 pm 
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R.I.P. Phil.

I used to watch his show with fascination. I'd never seen anything like it before.

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R.I.P., Phil Donahue.


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PostPosted: Mon Aug 19, 2024 3:42 pm 
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RIP I honestly thought he was much older and also had died some time ago.


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PostPosted: Wed Aug 21, 2024 11:27 am 
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RIP I honestly thought he was much older and also had died some time ago.

"Much older" than 88?


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PostPosted: Wed Aug 21, 2024 11:40 am 
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Jeff wrote:
RIP I honestly thought he was much older and also had died some time ago.

"Much older" than 88?

But dead.

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PostPosted: Wed Aug 21, 2024 1:49 pm 
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Evans wrote:
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RIP I honestly thought he was much older and also had died some time ago.

"Much older" than 88?



I could easily have believed that he was in his 90s, given how far back his notoriety goes. You could say that almost anything beyond 88 is "much older."

I suspect that this is one of those cases where many people were surprised to hear that a celebrity with a long history and little recent visibility had not died some years earlier. Though I normally refrain from commenting on it publicly, I've often been surprised to learn that a particular individual has only just now died.

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PostPosted: Wed Aug 21, 2024 2:30 pm 
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Evans wrote:
Jeff wrote:
RIP I honestly thought he was much older and also had died some time ago.

"Much older" than 88?

I thought he might have been in his 70s back when he was on TV, but he must have been one of those early graying people.


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 Post subject: RIP Phil Donahue (88)
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Jeff wrote:
Evans wrote:
Jeff wrote:
RIP I honestly thought he was much older and also had died some time ago.

"Much older" than 88?

I thought he might have been in his 70s back when he was on TV, but he must have been one of those early graying people.

Like Steve Martin.


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