Hello, hello, hello, hello, hello, welcome to the naughty but nice show.

I'm your host, Rob Shooter, and it's Tuesday.

Our dear friend Delanus off today, she's actually in LA.

I think she's interviewing Cynthia

Rido from the Wicked movie. I know they held their private screening for Delana last week. So she saw

the movie. She hasn't told me yet if it's fabulous. I know it is, but she's such a professional.

She won't say a word until she is allowed to, but Delana

got to see Wicked last week, and now she's out in California interviewing Cynthia. I think this is for

Ebony Magazine, so fingers crossed, I'll let you know when the story is posted. Okay, let's jump into

our show. What time is it, my friends? It is tea time, big story.

At the top of the show, Phil Donoghue, the iconic talk show host, has died at 88.

Phil pioneered talk shows. He really did. He revolutionized the TV business. His family confirmed that he died on Sunday night, surrounded by

loved ones, following a long illness. Now, we knew Phil had been ill for quite some time. We hadn't

seen him in a while, and he enjoyed the spotlight. He enjoyed the attention. He used to say that

all the time. And so the fact that he disappeared, we all heard rumors that he wasn't doing so well.

Phil was a man of many, many talents, but best known for the Phil Donahue show that brought

provocative issues and audience participation into American living rooms.

Just think about that for a second. Audience participation was so used to seeing Oprah walk around

the audience with a microphone. Ricky Lake did it. We're so used to that. That was Phil Donoghue. He was the first

to do that. And also to provocative issues. He was fearless. He talked about subjects that Americans

just did not talk about, particularly on daytime TV. In fact, before Phil, daytime TV was so pop-rous. It was game shows.

It was cooking shows. It was not these real, real impactful, important subjects that often we

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