Kathie Lee Gifford details final get-together with Regis Philbin – Page Six
Kathie Lee Gifford last saw Regis Philbin just two weeks ago, in what would become her final get-together with her close friend before his death.
Gifford, who worked alongside Philbin from 1985 to 2000 on “Live! With Regis and Kathie Lee,” said that during their recent lunch she sadly “sensed much more fragility than I’d seen in him the last time in January out in Los Angeles.”
“I was up from Tennessee, where I live most of the time, and of course the first call I always make is to Regis and Joy [Philbin],” Gifford said on Monday’s episode of the “Today” show. “I said, ‘Can we get together, can we have some lunch?’ So they came over about two weeks ago.”
Gifford, who like the Philbins also has a home in Connecticut, said, “We just had the best time.” But after the Philbins l...