Regis Philbin had one son, Daniel, who died several years before his father. Learn more about Daniel Philbin here and how he died.
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Regis Philbin’s son, Daniel “Danny” Philbin, died years before his father. Out of his four children, Regis only had one son. Daniel died in 2014.
Daniel Philbin died in 2014, ET Canada reported. Daniel was born in 1967 to Regis and his first wife, Catherine “Kay” Faylen. They had one child before Daniel — Amy Philbin. Amy has stayed mostly out of the spotlight all these years. Regis and Kay divorced about a year after Daniel was born.
Sadly, Daniel was only 49 when he died of natural causes, Closer Weekly reported. He was married to Judy Philbin, but they divorced four years before he died, Radar Online reported. Although Daniel Philbin died in November 2014, his death wasn’t shared publicly until 2015, ET Canada reported.
Daniel was born with a spinal cord birth defect that required both of his legs to be amputated, Closer Weekly reported. He spent most of his childhood at the Angel View Crippled Children’s Foundation in California.
Daniel and his father may have had a strained relationship for part of their lives, Radar Online reported in 2015. His former wife told Radar Online that he had been depressed from it, but Regis and Daniel later reconciled. However, when the rumors circulated about it in the 1990s, Daniel himself simply said: “I love my dad and I’m really proud of him.”
According to an unauthorized biography of Regis called Regis!, Regis called Danny his hero in 1994. Regis said: “For him to overcome all this disability, to graduate from college, work on his master’s program — he’s just dynamite, a remarkable kid.
