Who Is The Longest Running Television Presenter?
American TV presenter Regis Philbin has logged a record 15,199 hours on camera on national television. Up to August 20, 2004, Regis, currently co-host of Live with Regis & Kelly with Kelly Ripa, and famously the face of the US version of ‘Who Wants to be a Millionaire’ boasts a spectacular career spanning over 40 years. This means that he has been on camera on average roughly one hour a day for the past 46 years. Philbin is a TV-talk show host, game-show host, singer, author, and TV personality. He became one of the most popular talk-show hosts in America and in Canada. Growing up as an only child in The Bronx, New York, Philbin went to Notre Dame College and got a degree in sociology. Later, he served the Navy and went through behind-the-scenes in radio and TV before going into broadcasting. Philbin was married to Catherine Faylen from 1957 to 1968 and he has two children from that marriage. Currently he is married to Joy Philbin, who occasionally has filled as a co-host of her husban
