{"id":34040,"date":"2025-08-14T15:11:04","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T15:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=34040"},"modified":"2025-08-14T15:11:04","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T15:11:04","slug":"absolutely-devastating-very-sad-loss-legendary-talk-host-found-dead-at-age-88-in-the-past-he-broke-all-the-tv-records-he-passed-away-peacefully-at-his-home-married-to-a-legendary-actress-you-will","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=34040","title":{"rendered":"Absolutely devastating! VERY SAD LOSS  Legendary Talk host found dead at age 88. In the past he broke all the TV records, he passed away peacefully at his home. Married to a legendary actress you will know him immediately. When you understand who it is, you will surely cry. Check the comments \u2b07\ufe0f \u2013 wtfmusic.org"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Phil Donahue, the \u201cking of daytime talk\u201d in the US, has died aged 88 in his Manhattan home on August 18.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement to\u00a0Today,\u00a0his family confirmed the news, stating that the talk show host died following a long illness. During his final hours, he was surrounded by his loved ones, including his wife of 44 years, actress Marlo Thomas, his sister, his children, Michael, Daniel, Kevin, and Mary Rose, his grandchildren, and his beloved golden retriever, Charlie.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-3\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-1\">\n<div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1824821\" data-uid=\"01933\">\n<div id=\"mgw1824821_01933\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"mgbox card-media\" data-template-type=\"container\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- toc empty --><\/p>\n<div class=\"b-r b-r--after_content\">\n<div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1561067\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Phil Donahue, the \u201cking of daytime talk\u201d in the US, has died aged 88 in his Manhattan home on August 18. In a statement to\u00a0Today,\u00a0his family confirmed the &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34041,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34040"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34042,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34040\/revisions\/34042"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}