MEMPHIS, Tenn. - St. Jude Children's Research Hospital has released a statement on the death of television talk show pioneer Phil Donahue, who was married to St. Jude founder Danny Thomas's daughter, ...

Phil Donahue, an innovative TV host who rose to fame in the late 1960s after he was the first person to interact with a studio audience on a talk show and brought new ideas into American living rooms, ...

The couple first met back in 1977 when Thomas was a guest on Donahue's eponymous talk show and by 1980 they were married. "We just clicked ... I just loved his confidence," Thomas said in 2021 during ...

Phil Donahue, who changed the face of U.S. daytime television with a long-running syndicated talk show that highlighted topical and often provocative social and political issues, has died at age 88, ...

MEMPHIS, Tennesee (KBTX) - St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital laments the passing of television icon Phil Donahue, a pioneer in American media who shaped the format of the modern talk show. Donahue ...

Phil Donahue and Marlo Thomas were married for 44 years, and she was by his side when the talk show host died at home on Sunday, Aug. 18, at age 88. "I lost my sweetheart last night," Thomas, 86, ...