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"Regis Philbin has signed up to appear regularly on The Rachael Ray Show. The 81-year-old, who left Live! in November 2011 after nearly 29 years, told USA Today that he will not be a permanent fixture on the series. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m not a co-host, I&amp;#039;m just a guy showing up on her show once a month,&amp;quot; he said. &amp;quot;I love the idea. It&amp;#039;s fun to be back on TV when you don&amp;#039;t have to do it every day.&amp;quot; Philbin, who described Ray as a &amp;quot;friend&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;a little dynamo&amp;quot;, also revealed that he couldn&amp;#039;t see any reason to turn down the opportunity. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m not going to say, &amp;#039;I don&amp;#039;t want to do your show!&amp;#039;&amp;quot; he joked. &amp;quot;I think it&amp;#039;s fun. I spent my whole life doing this... [But now] it&amp;#039;s not the every-morning burden.&amp;quot; The show&amp;#039;s executive producer Janet Annino praised the &amp;quot;chemistry&amp;quot; between Ray and Philbin, describing him as a &amp;quot;perfect fit&amp;quot;. Meanwhile, in a statement to TV Guide, Ray said: &amp;quot;I can&amp;#039;t tell you how excited I am that Regis will be a recurring special guest on our show this season. Regis has been a close friend of the show and a close friend of mine for years, and it&amp;#039;ll be a blast having him on the team.&amp;quot; Philbin is expected to make an appearance on The Rachael Ray Show on Monday. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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